Face it guys, Kerbal Space Program 2 is officially dead in the water.
This game was released to Early Access with a LOT of missing features, with a full $50 AAA game price tag. The price of the game along with the amount of content was absolutely not worth it at all. Not to mention they were planning to jack UP the price of the game after it left Early Access - wouldn’t have been surprised if the game was $69.99 on full release. The progress of development was slow beyond belief and there was barely any major updates other than just patches to fix the numerous amount of bugs in the game. The amount of bugs and glitches during its EA launch was abysmal, especially for one priced at 50 goddamn dollars.
The only major update that was given to this game finally added new, promised content and was looking to be on the right track, but still, an abhorrent amount of bugs and a ton of missing content. This game had probably a rough estimate of around 90% of content missing from the original KSP. It looked to finally be going somewhere, and then, boom, Take-Two shuts down the studio working on it, Intercept Games, leaving the game entirely unfinished and in the same state that the game was in after its last update, with a whole host of bugs and glitches. The game was looking to finally start getting its footing in the right places, and then, all of a sudden, studio shuts down and there is now no longer any progress being made on it. And they still had the nerve to charge people 50 dollarydoos for the game in its now abandoned state. That is absolutely scummy and ought to be illegal.
This game has officially become ‘dead and abandoned mall’ status where all that you can see are rows of stores with those big metal gates blocking the entrances to them. But, in this case, the game is still available to be purchased in this absolutely atrocious state. This is BELOW any standard of quality I have ever seen. This is pretty much Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 all over again: game launches in a horrible state, content starts coming out to make the game better, Robomodo is then shut down by Activision, game left unfinished. But, it’s in fact in a worse state than THPS 5 in my opinion since this game is still on sale in a now “permanent” Early Access state despite no progress being made, and still able to be bought.
And then, Take-Two puts the game on SALE? ALREADY? This game went on sale as quickly as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did! And that was a full $70 live service game! That is absolutely laughable.
But, that’s not all. New company owns this game now, and if you’re getting your hopes up for the future of Kerbal Space Program 2, just get rid of all of those hopes already, as this game is now being controlled by a private equity firm. I wouldn’t say the game is “actually dead”, but “content dead”. The game is not actually ‘dead’, it’s just under… ‘new management’. Don’t even think that this game is getting new content, either. It’s not. Private equity firms are NOT publishers, they are instead an IP PRISON. Nothing is going to be done with it. It’s going to be kept in the same unfinished state as it was in last time with no new fixes, patches, or improvements. Not even any new content. The only thing these firms truly care about is money.
The fact that this game is STILL being sold should be classified as a scam. Even when THPS 5’s developer was closed down, Activision at least took the game offsale digitally. But this? The studio is now shut down and completely non-existent, and yet the game is still up for sale. Still available to be purchased digitally despite the fact the game is going to be left in a permanently unfinished state due to Intercept Games’ closure. Selling an unfinished game in Early Access despite the developer being shut down should be illegal.
I literally got this game for COMPLETELY free and still feel ripped off.
All of my hope for this game is now lost. It’s officially been cut loose. This game NEEDS to be delisted as it has been turned into a straight-up scam that is probably still conning and tricking people. If they won’t take the game offsale themselves then Valve should step in and delist the game manually as it is no longer being maintained.
It’s completely dead, guys, just move back to KSP 1. It’s over and you know it.
For every awesome game like Baldurs Gate or Satisfactory there are a thousand games that didn’t make it. It’s the exception that proves the rule, don’t trust early access.
The only distinction between our position is expectations. If you’re aware and conscious of what Early Access expressedly tells you, and are willing to lose every penny you spend on the game, that is not “trust”, it’s just being informed and reasonable. So yeah, I agree, don’t trust it.