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[Kruniac]

Starbound is basically shit nowadays. My crack team of pro Terr players burned through the game in about four hours, hopping from planet to planet, raping the resources, then moving on. We repeated this until we got bored with the game.

It's a damn shame, too. It had a lot of potential. We would get so excited every time a new update was released. Just another example of how the industry bombs otherwise good titles with idiotic design and development.

[Nighthawk]

In my opinion, the game was fine until they decided to turn progression into mind-numbingly stupid MMO exclamation mark questing and instanced missions.

In its early stages, Starbound was about freedom, and exploring varying planets to find cool stuff. Granted, there wasn't an absurd amount of content, but what was there was fun to discover and felt good to play through. Now, everyone has to progress through the game the same exact way every single time.

I fail to understand why they thought this was a good idea.

[Darkmere]

I'm assuming they're still just drawing random features out of a hat every morning and fucking with those for a few hours, then dropping that focus for something else completely random the next day.

And then breaking all that work down to rebuild it from the ground up every 4 months.

In my opinion, the game was fine until they decided to turn progression into mind-numbingly stupid MMO exclamation mark questing and instanced missions.

All of that shit was planned from the start, they just kicked out the game's early access in tech demo format. Eris knows what they've actually been doing in the interim.

[Arbinire]

Eh, just let me know when Steam will allow us to refund this pile like some of the other EA games that have turned out to be scam jobs.  That'd be the best update to happen to this tech demo in years.

[Flying Dice]

The best thing to come out of Starbound, IMO, was the sort of communal collaboration around the gathering of coordinates for various features and items. It almost felt like Babby's First Elite:Dangerous. And then they axed that.

[Imofexios]

Heh. Payed this few days back again after year... Now the game is broken and it lags like monkey in spasms.
Refund thank you !

[KingofstarrySkies]

The salt is real.
no but seriously i do agree this is kinda shit now and that makes me a sad puppy ;~;

[Gentlefish]

Eh. I've spent more on much worse things. At least they're still working on it

[Darkmere]

Eh. I've spent more on much worse things. At least they're still working on it

Yeah, I can't really disagree with this. If it weren't for their abysmal treatment of customers I'd be slightly below neutral on the whole thing instead of just vitriolic.

[evilnancyreagan]

wellp,

love it or loathe it, Starbound has taught you a couple valuable lessons:

• Don't buy promises.
• Don't subscribe to HYPE.

if you can walk away with these, then I'd say your $15 was well spent.

[Darkmere]

Ironically, Starbound was the first and last early-access game I gambled on.

I had a good time with the custom shipbuilder mods, so it's not like it was a loss of my entertainment dollar. Especially considering I have a couple of $1 purchases on my Steam account that just failed to function altogether, which I regret buying more.

[Neonivek]

wellp,

love it or loathe it, Starbound has taught you a couple valuable lessons:

• Don't buy promises.
• Don't subscribe to HYPE.

if you can walk away with these, then I'd say your $15 was well spent.

Starbound was a guilt purchase for me because I was telling people that it probably wouldn't be good...

[Greenbane]

Personally, I'm waiting to see how far they manage to get in the development process before I allow myself to indulge in rage.

It's taking them a helluva long time, but they keep chugging along, so I can't be more than somewhat disappointed out of impatience.

[evilnancyreagan]

NOTE: Until Chucklefish's sponsored host; Creeperhost® get's their ship together,we're rocking the stable build. Don't yell at me, yell at those crasshats.

enter at your own risk:
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[KingofstarrySkies]

I got my money's worth from Starbound. I'm happy. I got what I wanted from it-Exploring space for fun and profit.