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I would not have minded paying one in the beginning to keep the development afloat. Now they lost all trust. I am not throwing more money in their direction for another "this time we wont wipe again, promise". Even if they would somehow manage to fix all the issues.. the playerbase moved on and Atlas wasn't special enough to get larger groups to come back anyway.

On 6/15/2020 at 10:18 PM, Bluestone said:

One option is to wait until the game is finished and out of early access before playing. That way the chances of your progress being removed is severely reduced.
Unfortunately, when early access is treated as it should be, a process of change and development for a game, then such things as wipes and lost progress do happen.

Like this game will ever make it out of EA. And stop talking about development. A cheap powerpoint presentation about a roadmap you never followed isn't called development. Check the patchnotes of the last year.

On 6/15/2020 at 10:06 PM, Percieval said:

What are you gonna try out? Nothing changed in 3 months only a clean server because it costs too much money. 

How dare you! This time they really really really mean it! Pinky promise!

How unexpected. The "last" wipe wasn't the last wipe. And the roadmap wasnt the actual roadmap. And now we will get "monthly" updates. But they probably promise that THIS time they really really really mean it. Pinky promise.

This game is done. They will just turn the servers off at some point, or nitrado will simply reduced the capacity even more. No reason to wipe anyways, sooner or later the last people doing maintenance will simply forget once, and their stuff will be erased. 

Good luck waiting for an official response to that Id prolly even try to contact nitrado to let them know..

No reason to necro that topic. It was as dead as the game.

Nope, you are all wrong. It`s gonna be hats. For the cats.

On 4/30/2020 at 6:01 PM, Commander_Peace said:

 My opinion of it is the game is the game on the developers terms and these guys behind these games aren't dumb as rocks especially on a Game Preview, keep up the work devs and tune out the complainers.

Which work? They stopped a long time ago.

On 4/23/2020 at 9:00 AM, Reiver Demon said:

if you had admin rights you could spawn in anything you wanted gaining an unfair advantage

 

You mean.. just like it actually happened on the live Servers?

Spoiler... Its going to be the same patch

On 4/7/2020 at 9:47 PM, Bitroaster said:

I wonder if we should start a fundraising campaign to buy the game.... Hand it over to some competent team that listens to the players and gets things done. I wonder how much the greedy bunch needs to let go atlas...

So many good examples for crowd funded games... Like Star Citizen (or how to make a fortune selling virtual ships you will never fly)... Or Chronicles of Elyria (how to scam people into buying virtual titles and jobs).

2 hours ago, EmperorDragon said:

Missed opportunity really, devs had something unique on their hands and neglected it in favour of doing more of the same elsewhere. And Genesis is not really receiving praise either so they shot themselves in both feet in the end.

100% agree with you there. Big potential wasted

Last Oasis will have private Servers soon as well!

1 hour ago, EmperorDragon said:

Well, I received the game as a gift so I can't complain. For a player like me, Atlas is a godsend. It would be great if the devs come back to flesh it out and finish it once they're done with Genesis. This update, with it's lack of bugfixes, is a good sign regardless.

The thing is, outside of the variety of MMOs, there haven't been a new pirate/sailing game in ages. We've been stuck on the old Sea Dogs games for two decades and it's great to finally have something new. Definitely gonna spread the word, the Sea Dogs/Storm engine games had their fair share of bugs and issues as well so, it won't be that difficult to adapt.

Playing online is fun but, we could do with an additional official server or two to clear up some claimable land for newcomers. Either way, I found that singleplayer and private co-op servers is where this game really shines.

You should give "last Oasis" a shot. It honestly is all Atlas could have been. And they actually have people developing.

A lot of them only really spawned after server restarts... No more patches, no more restarts.. less whales

Never did to begin with. I never had a ticket answered.

On 4/2/2020 at 12:22 PM, EmperorDragon said:

But anyway, still great to see a new update just a day after I got the game. The game is clearly not dead as many claim.

You are kidding, right? That is not an update. Its a joke. It is about as useful as adding a new skin for cats. There is clearly no one left that can do any development whatsoever. That is a leftover staff or intern sitting around with a "programming for dummies" book trying to edit a few lines of code.

You spend more time with Atlas than they do. Wouldnt count on a fix.

31 minutes ago, Pant said:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes

https://www.playatlas.com/index.php?/forums/topic/2628-patch-notes/

You do realise when they were supposed to launch, right? The "alpha" is 6+ years behind the planned release of the whole game... Im not defending Atlas, bu they had more playable content at the EA launch than SC has today (And that meas something). SC was a virtual hangar to watch your digital ships you bought for most of its lifetime. Yet they still manage to string idiots along, its amazing tbh.

1 hour ago, Pant said:

Star citizen have active development, the money they get earn is being put into developing the game. Atlas on the other hand what kind of development have we had the last 6 months? Some QOL changes an intern could do over a weekend? Prior to that we got a pointless hydra pistol, 3 tames noone uses, roleplay skins and some island changes.

You are litterly comparing apples to unicorns.

Google what literally means. 

There is NO active development in Star citizen at all. They keep melting in packages and resell skins and virtual spaceships to idiots. By the sound of it, you are one of them.  

Reporting it as fraud didnt work for games like DayZ, its not going to do anything for Atlas. Early Access itself is the problem, it needs a tighter rule-set. Not even "Star Citizen" is considered a fraud by now. 

15 hours ago, DocHolliday said:

I doubt the money they bring in from new sales outpaces the costs of running those servers at this point. 

They reduced the amount of actual grid Servers a long time ago, if they ever had the number nitrado claimed to use in the first place.

They did kind of cancel it. They decided to let it die slowly, probably trying to squeeze out a few more bucks along the way with "content patches" and steam sales. Prolly some hat for the cat. Or another pointless skin.

It is not the bugs, the unfinished features and the resets. It is the fact that they aren't following their own plans, sunk the Atlas ship and left it.

The roadmap was nothing but a last low budget PR attempt to string us all along a bit longer. It reminded me a lot of those "shit, i have a PP presentation tomorrow morning" burning the midnight oil situations.