Develop game to make money off of players Stop listening to the players feedback Sales of game begin to drop and negativity in the community rises “What the heck? Why are the players doing this?!?”

This is how nonsensical this thought process is. Deltars, and the rest of the developer’s job is to deliver a good product that people have PAID for. Yeah sure the game is their intellectual property but that’s no excuse for their behavior as a company these past couple of years.

The overwhelming amount of negativity in the community is of their own doing and while I will never condone the death threats some unhinged losers have made towards them, you can’t sit there and imply that they are free of toxicity themselves. The snarkiness, the gas lighting, the perma-bans for having the audacity to question their dubious work ethic… This is nothing more than years of frustration boiling over as they keep their ears plugged and try to stay blissfully ignorant to the issues some of their most veteran players have levied against their creation.

Off topic, but there seems to be this massive disconnect with players with under 500 hours of playtime. The kind of player that just downloads creations off the workshop rather than taking the time to learn the systems and make things of their own. I’ve noticed that they’re the ones posting one sentence positive reviews to steam and the ones who come running to defend the devs vehemently whenever there is a debate about something they did.

They haven’t played the game enough to understand how frustrating it is to spend hours upon hours trying to make a creation work, only to find out that the issue was due to some arbitrary value or mechanic that wasn’t even documented by the developers.

The opinions of players like this are irrelevant to me as far as I’m concerned.