It was also free, unlike Concord.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Hey… At least it lasted longer than Concord. 🤷♂️
iamthetot@piefed.ca 17 hours ago
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Even if Concord was free, it still would have had less players than Highguard. Nobody wanted to play Concord, at least some people wanted to play Highguard.
rtxn@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
I do feel slightly bad for the dev team. A lotta stuff outside their control spun things out of hand; but I also don’t think it would have had any success regardless of the whole situation. At least what happened got it some attention and gave it a chance.
rtxn@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
By “dev team”, I’m guessing you mean the artists, designers, programmers, and testers; the people who spent the last five or so years actually creating the game. Yes, it sucks for them. Their years of work have effectively been thrown in the trash because of Wildlight’s management. I hope they find better work soon, and I hope the management become personae non gratae in the industry.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Honestly it’s the same thing with Concord, and it’s part of why it sucks to hear a lot of shit talk toward the devs of these games. Anyone who’s actually tried either game could tell the dev teams really did put their all into it and wanted to make something interesting and fun, but you can feel the c-suite decisions and live service bullshit weighing them down. Like if the game isn’t an instant hit, it gets shut down, and all that work thrown away. It really fucking sucks for the folks who actually put the work in.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
They already took their millions in Tencent money and ran with it.
www.polygon.com/highguard-funding-tencent/