Following a period of silence stretching almost 4 months, developers of the thought-to-be debunked multiplayer survival game, The Stomping Land, have made a return - offering absolutely zero explanation for their long period of absence
GG3 writes: "Developer Studio Wildcard stated that Ark: Survival Evolved would pay tribute to people who bought The Stomping Land on Steam, after its Early Access program sort of fizzled. With a huge community currently active in the latest dinosaur survival game, sunglasses on Tyrannosaurus Rex creatures have started to appear."
Last month The Stomping Land made news as it came out that the last developer working on the troubled MMO had officially decided to end his time working with Supercrit after a long period of silence from the head developer Alex “Jig” Fundora. That last man standing was Vlad Konstantinov, a freelance character artist from Russia who specializes in dinosaurs.
Caraline Nelson writes: "After receiving over $100,000 in funding Alex Fundora has left supporters with maybe half a game at best. The studios leader abandoned his seemingly talented workforce without proper pay and they have therefore, rightly, stepped away from the project to find other work. His lack of communication and complete disappearance was crippling."
Does anyone else find it suspect that the developers go AWOL for 4 months and then return with a patch just a week after Valve remove the game from Steam?
Not only that but the contents of the patch are questionable also. The dinosaur they added has been on private servers for months as the model and animation were already in place. As was a command to initiate a stampede but it was rarely used because of the bugs and poor AI - the same bugs and poor AI that are present in the new patch.
Crazy what these developers get away with after their fans help fund their efforts directly.
I'm a huge fan of Early Access and though there some initial rough spots, I've noticed a significant increase in communication. Early Access has improved quite a lot.
This situation is entirely unacceptable. We may not be entitled to know the the details of traditionally developed/published games but Early Access requires detailed communication, especially when it comes to a 4 month hiatus.