We hear often about game devs being out of touch and not listening to their playerbase, commonly to the cries of “Do the devs even play their own game?!” And there are a lot of cases where this was true, but I’m more interested in the opposite cases. Where the devs actually listened and implemented changes in response to the player community, and it actually made the game worse.
So are there any cases of game devs listening to and directly implementing community suggestions, and it made the game worse for wear? If the devs also misinterpreted what changes were desired, that’s pretty close so feel free to share those stories as well.
Steam Winter 2021 Sale is now LIVE. Steam store:
Today’s free game is Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden:
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/mutant-year-zero
An X-COM style turn-based strategy. A really good offering if you haven’t played it before!
Only available til 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT on Thursday, December 22. Get it while its hot!
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