I tried to enjoy enlisted.
I really did.
I spent time on the forum trying to help the game out of beta.
All we wanted ( in the big lines ) were fix silver, fix IA stupidity, fix BR mess, increase player base.
And after 2 months, nothing really happenned.
I played the zombies, fun, and got the rewards. 8K silver!! Woohoo after hours of play I can buy another soldier!!! worth my time right? wrong.
I truly wanted a WWII game, with squads, large battlefields, beautiful maps, endless options to customize and adapt to my gameplay.
Then… The steam release was a mess and something happenned.
I talked to my friends, and they showed me another game.
Oh yeah, it’s not WWII, there is no squad, it’s not even PVP.
But since enlisted offers limited PVP anyway, due to lack of players, IA are that stupid, it’s not a big loss.
On this game, you can find the CEO playing your lobby, talking to you.
On his tweets, you can see him telling people not to buy the game until servers are fixed, because too many players are on at the same time.
He wanted to make a game good BEFORE making money.
Oh, and yes there are micro transactions. But they are MICRO transactions. Enlisted has MACRO transactions ( when you have to spend 50€ for 1 squad, it’s not micro, it’s the price of a game)
And the game rewards the time played with hard currencies, so you can buy premium stuff without paying, because the time you spent in the game got you enough you can buy premium stuff as a rewards.
There is a battlepass, but it’s not limited in time, so no FOMO, no log in everyday gatcha style.
On one of the many videos I saw on youtube, they talked to the CEO while in game, and the devs did handle weapons, so they replicate the effect on the game, and you can feel it.
It’s not WWII, but since helldivers is only 40€, the devs and CEO respect their players, the game is actually not bugged all over the place, I have a choice. Pay a premium squad in Enlisted for 1 country, that will be irrelevant for the next br ( or buy only BR5 and get stomped by vets), or pay the same price for a game that respects the players feedback, where customization costs 2€, with no bugs, only limited by the servers overheating.
It’s been a couple months I asked for a talk to even community managers, having feedbacks heard, because enlisted has potential.
But nothing happenned, and the steam release showed the greed of the company.
As I said in my first post here, I will not pay anything for a game in beta, and I’m happy I didn’t, because another game, not in beta, cheaper, without as many bugs, with respectful company, and features of the fking CEO dropping to play his game and talk to the community, is out and running.
Doing so well their main problem is they have too many players for their servers to handle.
Damn I wish enlisted had this problems.
But here we are, I grinded up to BR3, the game is not fun to play, there are not enough players to fill all the games, and the players are not on the same lv ( yeah no elo leads to that, but it’s been only 15 years companies use the elo system to balance the games and make players happy and keep playing)
This is funny because I just got promoted on the forum, just because I’m actively trying to repeat what everyone is…
But enough is enough.
Fixing IA stupidity might me a nightmare for devs, I give you that, but fixing silver income, and dropping prices for premium to a MICRO transaction system and releasing on steam for FREE shouldn’t be that hard.
Unless all you want is the max cash possible.
Well, Helldivers 2 have too many players, happy with the game, and with the low 2€ price tag I’m certain they are happy to support the game.
They are basically buying a coffee to thanks the devs, meanwhile here we are all raging because no one cares about the players and if you don’t pay 100€ a month you can’t enjoy the game.
I’m sad, but I tried, I tried hard, to grind, to raise my voice, to become part of the community.
The game is beautiful, has a lot of potential, but the greed of DF kills it all.
Too bad, another company respects their players, is not as greedy, and I’m sure they make a lot more money than you. For the price of a bus ticket, or a coffee…
Well I’m gonna buy the 40€ game ( compared to the 20€ beta on steam it’s reasonable since their game is not bugged).
Maybe later, I’ll check how enlisted is doing.
Maybe…