DudeBroManGuy

Okay, let's see what we got. Oh, so too many cooks in the kitchen pulling the project in too many different directions. Sounds like you need to suck it up, put on your big boy pants, and make a hierarchical management structure so that your vision for the game remains within scope and so that features get implemented within a reasonable timeframe. There's a damn good reason that large projects are undertaken with a strict hierarchy of management and responsibility. It's taken too long already. How many people who purchased the game at the beginning of its development have died already without having gotten to play the full version that was promised by you and funded by their payment? Oh, please. VS has already been in development for a decade. AAA games are released in roughly half that time. And if your excuse is "well, those studios have 100 people or more," well then HIRE MORE PEOPLE. That's a major part of why people are angry at your decision. You chose to hire people for a side project instead of hire people to work on the game people already paid you to make. And even after all this time vanilla VS is so devoid of features that without the modding community filling in the gaps by making more content than exists within the vanilla game itself then I wouldn't even play the game. This is just like how Project Zomboid has been "in development" and "early access" for 15 years but is still missing basic features like the ability to climb a ladder. At this point in the gaming industry landscape early access is just a grift where devs can continue kicking the can down the road because there's always new players who haven't discovered the game yet who will buy it in nearly the exact same state it's currently in the following year. This answer makes absolutely no sense, and not just grammatically. How is it easier to hire people to work on a completely different project that wasn't a part of your vision for the original project than it is to hire people to help work on the original project that you have 10 years of experience and familiarity with? You want to know why you shouldn't spend those additional funds on a small side project? BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT VS DIDN'T PAY FOR A SIDE PROJECT. We want VS, not VS plus something completely unrelated. This statement alone is grounds for me to request a refund. You are so out of touch and are so disingenuous with this statement. You know DAMN WELL that VS was advertised as an unfinished game with additional features to come, without additional payment. You know it was advertised with a specific gameplay style and with specific features to be implemented later. There's a damn road map for Christ's sake. It is not a fair exchange for people to give money to fund a project that promises A, B, C but then the beneficiary instead delivers X, Y, Z; especially when the reason that A, B, and C have not yet been delivered is precisely because funds that could have gone towards fulfilling those promises are instead diverted to work on X, Y, Z. This is an egregious breach of trust. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that it is a detriment caused by an opportunity cost. You could have spent that money on hiring people to help with the project that people paid you to produce; instead, you have chosen to spend that money to fund a separate project that few of your benefactors want and will only marginally benefit the original project their money paid you to produce. And the reason you gave for not spending the money on more people for the original project is vague and doesn't hold water when you consider that other game studios do exactly what you claim is too difficult. And those other studios produce their games in shorter spans of time than you have already spent on this game. I had never heard of Hytale before this whole debacle, but holy shit. You mean to tell me that Hytale is another game where developers were not capable of producing the game they promised after a whole-ass decade? So then you hired these people who have a decade of experience with failing to fulfill the obligations they have to the players who funded them because they seemed like a perfect fit for what you have in mind? Which definitely does seem to be exactly what they did because it's exactly what you're doing. Damn. Now I'm even more insulted by your lack of progress on VS because you claim it's not due to money and you claim that it's not due to staffing levels, so then what is it? Are you just not focusing on the things you should be doing to get this game made because you're too busy doing the things that don't contribute to getting this game made?

That's not the point. I didn't pay money for VS plus a side project. I only wanted VS. I only paid for VS. If the funds I provided to Anego Studios goes to fund the creation of anything other than VS then the resources that I provided are, in some way, being siphoned from the project I gave my money to support; the resources that we all provided are being diverted to fund something that, honestly, I don't think most VS players want. I know I don't. Adventure mode? Really? I I have never played adventure mode on Minecraft and I know I'm not alone in that. Anecdotes aside, 100% of people who pay for VS want VS; less than 100% of people who pay for VS want VS + some other bullshit that isn't VS being funded with our money. Imagine if, somehow, Microsoft went bankrupt and Anego hired some of their dev team and then announced they were adding some features of Call of Duty to VS. That's not what we paid money for, is it? That's an extreme example, sure, but I made the analogy extreme so that you can see the principle of the issue. I don't want elves and dwarves and whatever the hell Hytale was going to be in VS.

How about... oh, I dunno... finishing the game that I purchased first before using the money I gave you on creating a different game? Why, oh why, would you think that it's acceptable to take the funds from sales of an unfinished game and use them to create a spin-off game or implement features that wildly differ from the game you promised? How do I get a refund?

There's nothing in the Discord server... All the verification does is take me to the Discord app page. I'm not about to download an app just to play on a VS server.

Did you ever start a new server NaiveAcrobat9? I'm a new player looking for a fresh start. I'm actually hoping to find other new players like myself so we can all stumble through the game together.