Will be totally honest in my reply.
Boundless has fewer features than I felt was promised at purchase. Was my choice in the poll.
When I saw the trailer I was given the impression that there would be more interaction with other players. You see shops with the owners there, other players chatting. You see groups taking off to run and hunt together and you see that they will be getting together to fight the Titans.
NONE of that was there. My son and I met very few players, the shops had almost no players in them, even in the mall areas, they might be running around but I don’t remember any chatting groups. No friendly waves and welcome to the game and the planet we spawned on.
I was expecting more for the price, one that would have great graphics and a lot to do and items to find, mini games maybe, such as in Fallout series; New Vegas was $60, another $70 that my son bought. Didn’t get any of that; graphics is okay, but realized it was a type of cartoonish so didn’t expect to see realist trees and people. But I did expect to see a whole lot more content, more to do and a whole lot more difference in planets and critters, not the same ones on every planet and a limited amount of type, goat, spitter, cuttletrunks, hoppers and roadrunners. That is it, that was all that was in the game? Pathetic
Did expect my girl to have clothes, not wearing a bra and a loincloth. I expected to be able to make armor and be able to go from hard leather to the toughest materials the game would offer. There were no clothes and no armor, no protection at all. They can travel in space but don’t have clothes, armor?
I did not know that it was taken out of early access too early, learned that after about a month of playing, which to me was a rip off from the company that supported it, not so much as the devs. Again, this is honest and my opinion, the price was double what it should have been for the condition it was in and how difficult the learning curve and the amount of grinding, and I have played several games that have a lot of grinding. They cost $20 to $30, that was all this game was worth, in my opinion.
Present day:
Now, how I feel about the game now. At the time I bought it I was having some health problems but not as bad as recently, it was a blessing in disguise for the months of Nov and up to now even. I was able to ignore the pain that was so bad I was wishing I was dead at some points. I could handle the pain up to a level of 5 with the distraction of this game, over that I wasn’t able to do anything; except to think about dying to end the pain.
I have seen a lot of improvement since I bought it, some that I think was a joke, a half-hearted attempt to placate players so we would shut up (example is the special holiday events). Some, however were great and has helped all players. And I am seeing more of those type of additions to the game.
I am also seeing that the devs do care not only about the game but about us the players so the anger and sense of being tricked at the start is replaced with appreciation for them.
I’m a social person so have met many players on the forum that have been nice, some jerks that I wish would quit, couple I wished would take a long walk off a short pier that had hungry sharks waiting for a free meal. For the most part, however, it has been good. I have made a couple of friends that I have met in the forum and interact with in game and in PM where we can just chat. I have even changed my viewpoint about a couple who I didn’t like and feel more positive about them, don’t see them in a negative manner anymore.
This game has a lot of potential and I am willing to wait and see it happen. I will continue to play although I may take short breaks to play games I have ignored, but will come back to this game, I believe.
One last remark, do I feel the price is fair, should it stay at this amount? No, players who pay $60 for games that have more content will not buy this game, they won’t give it a chance to show what it does have. Players present day are more jaded and want more for their bucks. Drop it to at least $40 and offer Gleam club free and you will get more players. Show a trailer of what is really in it, not a trailer what is misleading.
Okay, whoever wants can blast, flame away, I gave my honest viewpoint of this game.
And you sound like me on gaming habits, haha, some of the same games too! I kill a lot of time in Minecraft simply because it is something I can do on “goof off” time when it is slow, but I’m not nearly as addicted to it since Boundless came along.
