Project Existence Testing Environment

Literally unplayable.

I cannot wait for more updates. I am especially excited about bulk creation tools and a store with more products to buy for building. I would love to have an option for petting the animals instead of just kicking them. I do enough animal damage in Skyrim. Having fun with this game so far!

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What did i just attempt to play?

Project Existence: Multiplayer Sandbox is an abandoned Early Access attempt at making a 3D third person open world shooter/crafting/building sandbox game. The game cannot be launched as the developers pulled the plug on the back end servers, rendering it unplayable as it relies on those. The game hasn't been updated in several months. It failed. SteamDB shows the game only managed to get 16 players concurrently, just at launch day, which is a pitiful number. Those players never came back, and now the game has practically no players, with numbers around 1-2 players launching the game every week, and then presumably deleting it because it's unplayable because the developers removed the back end servers when they abandoned the game. Why did it fail? It's video game autopsy time! There was some potential for the game to be a success but it seems the primary reason is simply lack of direction and proper management from the developers. No proper game design architect seems to have been involved, as the game itself has no goal. Failed developers, when incapable of properly architecting a story, flow, or set of gameplay loops and objectives for a game, will just slap together a rudimentary game engine and then, without adding any content, call the thing a "sandbox" and walk away, job done! And that's what happened here. Early videos on the developers site show "Project Existence" as a suburban lifestyle simulator... which has nothing to do with what has been put up on Steam! Clearly the developers just had no plan at all for success. Multiplayer-only games can only succeed if they have a huge player base and "go viral". Games that fail to appeal to a large number of players, and don't have any single player content, invariably fail. There's thousands of games on Steam, people looking for a PvP or multiplayer experience have an ocean of choice. When developers get lazy and don't bother adding content or compelling reasons for people to want to play their game, then people don't bother. The developers made the terrible mistake of launching a multiplayer only game in Early Access. This is almost certain to kill the game. Most gamers will evaluate a game only once. If they do so when the game is incomplete, they will check it out, then abandon it (just like the developers did). When (IF) the game eventually does get around to release, there will be no players, because the developers burned the first impressions through their faulty Early Access experience. Players who saw the game and didn't like it because it was incomplete [i]do not come back[/i]. Multiplayer games must have a large population if they are to go "viral" and succeed, especially without single player content to fall back on. Releasing a multiplayer only game into early access kills the game population, and thus the game, before the game even launches. This wasn't even free, as the developers indicated they might charge money for it later, if they ever finished it. It seems the developers have left this in a broken state on Steam, so now it's just harmfully polluting the Steam store, taking up market space that should be given to genuine developers who did the right thing. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuine games from serious developers.

Project Existence Testing Environment (PETE), Arctic Theory tarafından geliştirilen bir oyun için deneysel çok oyunculu bir sanal alandır. Bu oyun değil! PETE, oyuncuların farklı görevler, özellikler ve mekaniklerle etkileşime girebileceği canlı bir alandır. Bir şeyler kırın, bir şeyler inşa edin, Keyifli vakit geçirin.

Interesting to see what they do with this. Beginnings of an interesting concept is there. Some notes for the devs: -Pressing tab to exit tactical mode is not very responsive and often takes several tries to succeed. -In the apartment building in the basic town (not the motel but the empty building with a stairwell in the left side of the first floor) the stairwell is too small for the player to fit through -The current requirements to fix the radar are too high. For the test build I would recommend either lowering the requirements or increasing the yield of resources so testers can move on to the next game feature.