Let’s be honest, none of what’s happening here is on the players or the people leaving bad reviews on Steam. NONE OF IT.
I find it UNACCEPTABLE to pretend otherwise.
It’s all on Square Enix and Wonderstruck. They make the big decisions, not us. They made the decision to ghost us, to go radio-silence for a solid year.
It’s not the players who are still loving the game as it is. Not the players who are disgruntled (whether they still play or have stopped playing).
The players can be noisy. But let’s be real, it’s the same thing with EVERY GOD DAMN playerbase. And Boundless’ is pretty chill compared to some others. Some people 'round here are acting like the devs got death-threats from us. I think even the most disgruntled players have been very very supportive to the devs, all things considered.
What is being said on Steam is not being “corrected” by the devs, they do not bother to, hence, what is being said on Steam is true. The game is slowly dying in a corner. That truth is simply going to become clearer and clearer as more players leave. Only the devs have the power to stop that trend. Not us.
What happened is not that we players drove the devs away.
My guess is that the devs tried to bite more than they could chew, what with the scope of what they originally announced… I mean, are you kidding me with the 20-ish alternate races and the Titans and such?
Square Enix saw that and said “ok, stop, we’re not paying for you guys to work at this pace for 10 more years”.
So the devs left. End of story. The possibility of them ever coming back is getting slimmer and slimmer as months go by.
I personally think that the devs will have to answer for all of their silence, sooner or later, whether it’s here on the forum of this game, or on the forum of whatever other game they decide to work on after BG3. Yes, I think it is a solid possibility that they simply will move on from Boundless altogether. But the ghost of Boundless will follow them.
Call me petty, but if they do move on to start another game, I certain WILL be there to make sure that everybody knows how they decided to abandon this game without having the courtesy to let us know the reality of the situation, how they’ve let us all wait for their possible return.
Some people say the devs owe us nothing.
I disagree.
They owe us an apology and an explanation.