[quote][b]Warning: Microtransaction Infested Game[/b]
This game is infested with a mobile app like cash shop for unlocking in-game currency and features. Whether these are purely cosmetic or they alter your gaming experience significantly, this gamer gouging practice is unethical and insulting to gamers, especially when applied to such a low quality shovelware game. Gamers should be cautious and consider avoiding this game for that reason alone.[/quote]
[quote][b]Warning: Dead PVP Game[/b]
This game has no meaningful single player content, and no playable PvP servers. There is no functioning PvP population, it's a dead game, and cannot be played as intended.[/quote]I'm not really sure if Joint War - [BETA] is an asset flip. Some elements of this game certainly make it seem like the developer put some effort into assembling some kind of original here. On the other hand, a lot of the game assets don't seem like they were created by the developer, but they haven't credited any asset creators for supplying assets, which might be a case of plagiarism. There's no evidence, so we need to give the benefit of the doubt... regardless, asset flip or not, the quality here is indistinguishable from many asset flip/cash grab scams, and that's a problem in itself.
Joint War - [BETA] is what basically looks like an Unreal Marketplace asset flip (I mean I guess they could have made their own assets, but it doesn't look like it, and it's also besides the point... the quality of the game itself is indistinguishable from a Russian asset flip) that was dumped on Steam as a lazy ripoff of Counter-Strike, only godawfully bad. Of course the game is infested with a cash shop as the developers delusions of grandeur extended to monetizing what were probably someone else's assets in the scammiest way possible. Valve really needs some quality control. I'll gladly volunteer!
Taking this seriously as a game, which nobody should, well, it's Counter-Strike from Temu... it's truly garbage, with laggy controls and poor responsiveness (if you can get a game). The developers seriously argue aggressively with reviewers who point that out, insisting it's deliberate. Yeah, sure, they made their game bad on purpose. Whatever!
The focus of the game is pure PvP, there's no single player content. The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design etc to the game. The vast majority of PvP-only games fail because they don't "go viral", and without players, or single player content to add a lasting value to the game, the game dies. Developers must learn that other players are not an acceptable substitute for adding content to a game.
Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in a dead, abandoned and unplayable state (because there's no players and no meaningful single player content). It's the responsibility of the developer to maintain their product, ensure it runs on all modern PCs, or if they determine there's defects and the game doesn't work, or the population dies, they should remove it from sale instead of misleadingly trying to scam gamers into buying knowingly dead/unplayable products.
This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, not just because it's a direct and intentional attempt to scam people, but because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience.
[quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b]
Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
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