I hard passed on vintage story. I was looking into the game, took one look at the community and the toxicity on their support forums and went “yep thats a hard pass”.
IMO the company should really do some cleansing on their starting topics. It doesn’t look good for a game when there’s active toxicity in the community forums arguing over if the game needs to be changed and telling people to get gud and that they didn’t have such things when starting out when they make super basic suggestions like starter equipment, or an actual tutorial.
They may have fixed that since then since its been a year or two, but that was a hard turnoff for me. A lesser known game needs community support to function and survive. Even minecraft mods have a vast amount of wikis and community support. An actively hostile community on the official community forums is not a good starting POV.
I haven’t checked the forums tbh but I think that YouTube + the in-game help menu (pressing H) do a really good job. Plus there is an amazing mod support (and modding is actively encouraged) so you can really customize the experience the way you want even if the deve don’t add a feature you want.
Shout out to vintage story for replacing Minecraft for me
I hard passed on vintage story. I was looking into the game, took one look at the community and the toxicity on their support forums and went “yep thats a hard pass”.
IMO the company should really do some cleansing on their starting topics. It doesn’t look good for a game when there’s active toxicity in the community forums arguing over if the game needs to be changed and telling people to get gud and that they didn’t have such things when starting out when they make super basic suggestions like starter equipment, or an actual tutorial.
They may have fixed that since then since its been a year or two, but that was a hard turnoff for me. A lesser known game needs community support to function and survive. Even minecraft mods have a vast amount of wikis and community support. An actively hostile community on the official community forums is not a good starting POV.
Imo, I don’t really interact / care about the community. But if that’s a deal breaker for ya then more power to you
I haven’t checked the forums tbh but I think that YouTube + the in-game help menu (pressing H) do a really good job. Plus there is an amazing mod support (and modding is actively encouraged) so you can really customize the experience the way you want even if the deve don’t add a feature you want.