I like enlisted and have spent decent amount of money and a lot of time on it (probably too much, at least according to my wife).
Steam launch? Great, a lot of new players! So until yesterday writing a positive steam review was a no brainer for me. Of course I would do it.
But…
I have a major problem with the way the devs walk back their promises to paying customers time and time again around these Stalingrad topics. The whole way this is handled feels like arrogance and fundamental lack of respect towards the players. I don’t care much about the topic itself, but i absolutely care about how a company handles the promises it makes. And right now, for 100% self-inflicted reasons the devs don’t make me feel like they deserve my help.
So with that you made me flip from “Positive review coming” to “Best outcome you can hope for is no review”
Just wanted to share that. I feel you are thinking so little of us that you don’t bother keeping the small promises nobody forces you to make, but it does destroy the goodwill some of us have for you.
And it unfortunately ends in a net negative for everyone.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk about word of mouth marketing.
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Don’t forget that they released this event with very prominent squads before releasing game on Steam. This means that players on steam will be screwed. Second meaning, they could have just let us keep our squads of AR engineers. Because literally nothing would change. Because as I have said, new players will not get option to get them either way.
And the other thing. They released this event before fixing a very serious issue with the game crashing for a large amount of players since the update.
Sorry, but all I see is incompetence.
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I don’t disagree with you.
I almost cannot imagine a way to mismanage this thing any worse.
- Release functionality as a part of a pack that people pay for
- Promise that people can keep the functionality
- Figure out that this is in fact, hard
- Remove functionality, citing balance and newbies
- Promise as compensation a specific benefit in an event
- Release event without promised benefit
- Screw over future newbies (cant get squads) and oldies (could have kept old squad functionality without issues)
- Piss off many old players
Really bad 
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Yup. At this point, I’m not surprised anymore, just continually disappointed. Darkflow seems determined to ignore every lesson Gajin learned from WT’s development/dealing with the community over the years.
Who knows, maybe they’ll start learning when the games playerbase is dying in a few years. Once the income dries up, The Snail won’t see a reason to keep excess weight around but it’ll be too late by then, they’ll have made their money and will have moved on, and we’ll be left with a dead game full of faded potential. Just a handful of custom lobbies with a few dozen players who still log in a few days a week to play D-Day and Modern Conflict Gun Game.
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I think this is part of the problem as well - we all know how Gaijin does things so it’s not like there’s a huge amount of benefit of doubt you can give without actively volunteering to be a delusional sucker.
Gaijin seems to have the attitude of treating players like trash with a thousand cuts until things threaten escalate to a major freakout from the base.
Which is to me honestly such a destructive and wasteful way to run the development from my view, and the only way i can see this making any rational sense is if Gaijin is constantly in a financal trouble and need to nickel and dime people over petty shit instead of making players feel goodwill towards them or have somehow a non-abusive relationship.
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“Absolutely true, dude.”——DF
I bet they will launch the marketspace when this game is on steam, just to milk those $$$
Darkflow is a tiny studio with only a skeleton crew count, so this is bound to happen, and they failed to get more people to help them. What makes it worse is the fact that Gaijin’s Dagor engine is a coding hell.
So in all, they just want maximum possible cash with bare minimum effort while using poor hamster servers and overwork those even poorer dev teams.
