Planet nomads resources mod#

If they are aiming to make the grade then they should compare their work with Subnautica, its similar in many respects but its different where it matters. Having beta tested games for 20 years now, IMHO its close to a pleasing experience but what they seem to settle for is not what IMHO everyone would enjoy and particularly the first impression. The key decision is whether a YouTuber will sit down with it and make a pop vid or not but really that is the same criteria for whether a gamer will enjoy the flow of gameplay. Planet Nomads has got a lot to recommend it but it has some key flaws which create an impression which does not help propel it into YouTube greatness like Space Engineers which IMHO isnt all that frankly. My guess is the politics at the company were against further investment in game production, there could be engine constraints but its more probably a personalities issue and is probably why it doesnt quite meet gameplay priorities in the first place. The announcement was a strategic error really because they could have agreed to keep it ticking over on a back burner and not break everyones hearts, people would buy it and videos could get made and it might break through but they had to ruin it and currently their best exposure is in the 400k region, Empyrion is not much better at 500k and they are still going but Space Engineers has multimillion view vids out there, as does Subnautica, much better exposure. Its just spare time maintenance, I guess they have a day job and are focussing on that. The devs themselves said they didnt think they were going to continue developement and made an announcement to that effect and then changed their tune to continue low key bug fixing. Its not abandoned but its not in development.

Planet nomads resources mod#

I still think, if they managed to implement mod support and/or open source some of the code, the crazy modding community out there would flesh out a lot of the missing things to make this a hell of a game, maybe come close to the expectations that early adopters were aiming for. I truly think it was just a matter of underestimating the scope of work involved. That they are still adding items and tweaking the game now, shows at least that the devs weren't just in a 'cut and run' scheme. It's more a matter of the devs having to draw a line in the sand and say 'this is as much as we can get done' and then ending the development cycle when that line was reached. But, many early supporters and players felt that the devs just threw in the towel, and a big chunk of content and features the player base was waiting and hoping for never arrived. Yes, it's true that game development basically just ended and the devs put the '1.0' release marker on it, effectively ending Early Access and making it a 'released' product. So, it's not 'abandoned' in the strictest sense. Yes, it's true that the devs are still updating and adding little bits of content over longer periods of time. This is a typical example of a 'gray area' game reviews.