Wayfinder Will Remove All Online Requirements and Microtransactions, Expand RPG Content as Pay-Once

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• Ridrith Member RarePosts: 859

  May 15

  I'm far more excited about this pivot, I'd prefer the game be this way to begin with. I kind of just don't care about seeing other people running around aimlessly in the world, because I find myself not needing to or caring to talk to them. This is especially true in a game where we're playing characters. I don't want to see multiple versions of myself standing around in town, even if we are wearing different outfits.

  

  I like to complain about games.
• Dattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,675

  May 15 edited May 15

  I'll buy it. I can respect them for this decision and honestly more companies should do this if they can instead of outright shutting them down. Pretty rare to get a single-player/co-op game without micro-transactions in this day-and-age anyway.

  
• Xiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,045

  May 15

  Dead game walking just got deader.

  
  

  So, when this game is finally put out of it's misery and the studio closes is it going to be blamed on the "state of the industry, more layoffs"
  

  
• Aeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,060

  May 15

  Ah, so the Pagan Online approach, lol. What a god damn disaster.

  
• Drukqs Member UncommonPosts: 32

  May 15

  Actually sounds like a decent game. Will check it out!
• Samhael Member RarePosts: 1,534

  May 15

  When/if it leaves Early Access, I'll check back into it. I haven't had good luck with purchasing any Early Access titles.
• Raagnarz Member RarePosts: 647

  May 15 edited May 15

  I played a couple beta sessions for this. It wasn't great. It felt like an ARPG like POE where the towns were hubs then the adventure was mostly solo or small party. But you couldn't build your class really the way you could with a true ARPG. I wasn't impressed then. Now in a month or two they're going to all of a sudden turn this into a single player/small group ARPG. Yeah doubtful. Since its already preset classes you're not going to have much customization despite them shoehorning in a talent tree. The combat wasn't very interesting either. While I applaud them for trying to salvage something out of their publisher debacle by effectively giving people an offline version of a shuttered online game, I don't see it panning out well.

  
• Valdheim Member RarePosts: 711

  May 16

  Gonna give this another try an june 11th as this sound quite promissing. If it still sucks there's always the refund button as long as I don't test it longer than 2 hours.
• lordsmok Member UncommonPosts: 75

  May 16

  aaand ofc you cannot refund ;/
• LePetitSoldat Member UncommonPosts: 152

  May 16 edited May 16

  The incompetence of this studio is surprising. I see this change as: "we won’t be able to meet expectations at launch, so let’s polish some more of this shit and release it as a full game as soon as possible and life goes on."
• LePetitSoldat Member UncommonPosts: 152

  May 16 edited May 16

  
  

  Ridrith said:

  
  

  I'm far more excited about this pivot, I'd prefer the game be this way to begin with. I kind of just don't care about seeing other people running around aimlessly in the world, because I find myself not needing to or caring to talk to them. This is especially true in a game where we're playing characters. I don't want to see multiple versions of myself standing around in town, even if we are wearing different outfits.

  
  

  
  
  The point is Wayfinder does not have the depth of being a singleplayer/coop like Granblue Fantasy Relink for example. The game's foundation is a live service. This change is very obvious to me. They want to drop the project without having to refund players.