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The promised Story Mode, i.e. the only thing I cared even a little bit about ever getting for this fucking game (which I backed on KickstarterIndiegogo years ago), has been scrapped.
The Future of TFH
As we look forward to the release of Nidra and Baihe, let's talk about what comes next.
After the Season 1 Pass is complete, we will be ceasing active development on TFH. We will still be able to release small patches to address game-breaking bugs, but no new content will be produced. Unfortunately, that includes Story Mode.
Story Mode has always been an ambitious feature and one we truly desired to implement. We know how much our fans have been looking forward to Story Mode chapters, and we hope you understand how much we looked forward to working on and releasing them.
Oh well, yet another bullet point to add to my growing list of reasons for why I am beyond done with crowd-funded, unfinished horseshit.
Also, I just went to the Modus Games (EDIT) apparently renamed to "Maximum Entertainment" now? (/EDIT) publisher page on Steam and set it to be Ignored, and the few other games of theirs that I had Wishlisted have now been removed from there.
The Future of TFH
As we look forward to the release of Nidra and Baihe, let's talk about what comes next.
After the Season 1 Pass is complete, we will be ceasing active development on TFH. We will still be able to release small patches to address game-breaking bugs, but no new content will be produced. Unfortunately, that includes Story Mode.
Story Mode has always been an ambitious feature and one we truly desired to implement. We know how much our fans have been looking forward to Story Mode chapters, and we hope you understand how much we looked forward to working on and releasing them.
Oh well, yet another bullet point to add to my growing list of reasons for why I am beyond done with crowd-funded, unfinished horseshit.
Also, I just went to the Modus Games (EDIT) apparently renamed to "Maximum Entertainment" now? (/EDIT) publisher page on Steam and set it to be Ignored, and the few other games of theirs that I had Wishlisted have now been removed from there.
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Date: 2023-11-23 11:04 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, this is why I pretty much refuse to kickstart video games at all. Even with the best of intentions, gamedev is fraught with difficulties and crowdsourced stuff especially tends to promise the world while underestimating the costs and can rarely deliver.
Even non-crowdsourced triple-AAA stuff with real budgets and full development teams fail to meet expectations and drop promised features all the time.
Same reason I rarely if ever buy into early access games, or anything that's supposed to come out in installments over the next [insert arbitrary time period]. Give me a complete playable game up front, and then we can talk about whether I think it's worth the purchase. Otherwise, I can wait for the inevitable sale on the complete collection re-release when it's actually done.
Doesn't help that so many people treat kickstarter et al as a pre-order site rather than a risky investment platform, and expect/demand stuff to be delivered in full well before it's ever ready.
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Date: 2023-12-04 11:13 am (UTC)From:I bought the game a bit back since I saw it on a big enough sale since it was flagged as Verified for the Steamdeck, although apparently you need to set up your own template to get it to run in handheld mode. I think it'll work fine when docked with a keyboard. Not sure about controller use. Either way I've been too apathetic to really figure it out. Certainly won't be touching any of the DLC for the game either way. If they can't be bothered to finish the base game, I ain't buying what they deemed to be Extra.
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