the standalone is aSS I can agree, but the price is not crazy for what you are getting and the lack of competition, they could've easily priced this at 100$/EU and you wouldnt be able to find another game that allows you to do what this game does or at least not on this level and with this level of variety and customization and etcThe difference from 0.5.3 is marginal and MQ3 standalone, unfortunately seems to have little focus although they admit the interest is up.
That said, this game has great potential, but needs improvements to justify the price:
- A more polished final product
- Better user experience
- Option for user generated content (not just cards)
- more polished:
version is still 0. something, if thats not a beta idk what is, you can buy and play it before its finished, so they can fund themselves on their own and continue working on the game until they finish it, this is not sponsored and is not a big game studio or anything, but I guess thats hard to understand
- user experience:
its not bad for a beta, but people dont understand whats 0. .... there are known issues its not like they are not working on them, game is in a lot better place than it was 1 year ago and even more so 2 years ago when I first heard of it. It will get there, guess how many similar games came out in the last 2 years that are worth playing more than once - 0
- user generated content:
show me another game you can generate content or characters or whatever, did people get used to A.I. generating everything they want so fast? what happened? you can feel otherwise, I won't argue, but the hottie cards are more than enough and more than sufficient, there is a discord where you can find at least 500 different cards to date and after one year will probably be 1000, plenty of good people/players taking requests and trying to fulfill wishes and whatnot as well
We all want this game to be better than it is, cuz it always had and still has a ton of potential, but imo it grows and gets better in a very decent pace, I've seen plenty big game studios and sponsored/funded games taking way longer than whats happening with this game. I see nothing wrong with rooting for the underdogs/small team of people working on this and appreciating their effort and work, thats where I am comming from, but in general I am not saying you are wrong, just giving you one more point of view, which is a bit more realistic if you try to see the full picture, but np if u feel otherwise.