Anyone who still defends the EA concept by now is living in a fantasy world. And let me help you get back to reality by telling you that the complaints are a result of the incompetence of the developers. If they had done their job just a little better, we wouldn't be dealing with so much toxicity and complaints on a daily basis. And yes you're right, it is just a game. However, it is a very bad game and the developers make it seem as if they do not care about it much. Besides that, your argument for refund is also invalid for 99% of people here since they exceeded the two hour limit.
That's unfortunate for these players. I'll repeate myself by saying that
nobody forced them to
buy the game in early access and nobody forced them to
not inform themselves before buying this game.
To me the developers don't seem incompetent but like ambitioned programers who started the first Mount and Blade out of passion, became enterpreneurs and now pushed their product to the next level with the clan system combined with the birth-death-cycle which I've only seen in one other game series so far, Crusader Kings. Like any company they loose their "start up charm" and "indy flair" and as they grow they loose touch with some costumers, but that has nothing to do with incompetence. It's the way of economical developement all companies take: we are not their "friends" or "loyal fans", but "costumers" to TW. Although it seems incompetent to you, it is part of becoming professional.
I personally enjoy the game everyday more. The past three updates improved the game a lot. I don't understand the harsh words and disappointment some users of this forum have, as this is nothing but a
videogame that they either can play or not and not their "birthright" or "heritage" stripped away from them or an insult to them, though some sound and act as if it was. This irrational attitude is the base for actual insults and false accusations - which in most states is illigal by the way and being banned or muted is the friendiest outcome a user or moderator might expect from such behavior.
Then again: programing and animating a functioninf sand box game is tough and usually results in simple point and click mechanics like in Crusader Kings or very simple animations/graphics like in Minecraft or Valheim. So Bannerlord is marvelous from a programer's point of view.
If you are not going to make the effort to understand why most forumites are disgruntled with the game, why would theytake the time to explain our position to you?
If you are not going to make the effort to understand why most forumites are disgruntled with the game, why would theytake the time to explain our position to you?
Well, you see, that's a virtual discussion on a virtual forum about a pass-time (that's what a videogame is). I already put too much time in this thread, so why should I spent more time to "issues" strangers on a virtual forum have, that did not occure to me while playing said videogame? Life's too short to grow bitter over a game that does not meet ones personal taste, isn't it? Why should a developer, instead of working on fixable issues, spent his precious time on this forum? Plus, there are several moderators and devs answering polite, serious and fixable issue-threads. Information about the possible features of the game is given to us costumers. Look around the dev-blog, for example.
I think I made my confusion and more positiv approach to the game clear. If you guys have a problem that is not solved when the game is finally released, talk to the tech support or, even better, learn writing XML and animating, rigging etc. with a 3-D editor such as Blender and modify/fix/repair the game to your liking.
Have fun, fellow warriors of Calradia. ;D
