theHunter Classic

Don't let this game die please

P2P. but it is a good game if you have the patience to farm a lot when a say ~a lot~ i mean it, play with friends tho. the hunting part is really cool and it is a slow burn. The server are shutting down so ♥♥♥♥ it.

I may not have hundreds of hours in this game, but I still put a lot of time, effort, and dedication into learning its mechanics, patience, and the level of realism that you just can't find in today's oversimplified games. And what is Expansive Worlds doing? They are going to shut down the servers in a few months without even providing an offline mode. All the time that players spent mastering this game is being thrown straight into the trash. You blocked the ability to buy em$, threw in some end-of-life discounts, and you think that fixes everything? This is a massive slap in the face to the community that kept this title alive for years. TheHunter Classic had a soul, and this decision makes it feel like the developers no longer care about the players who supported this game for years. Your newer Call of the Wild doesn't even come close to Classic. You are destroying a legendary game. Huge dislike.

El mejor juego de caza de la historia, lastima que vayan a cerrar sus puertas

For so many years despite it's age and limitations, it was the best of the best hunting simulation. So what's the issue? I played the game from the yearly stages and played majority of my hours years before I migrated into steam so that steam counter doesn't tell the real figures. Anyway I'm also being one those who have spent like +1000 euros on it supporting the developer and publisher. This has been the most expensive game I've ever personally actively played so it doesn't feel good when the developer spent all that money giving birth to two games that never answered to the wishes for realistic theHunter 2.0 that I too hoped for. The COTW was semi-ok but never more than arcade shooting game with animals to reach masses in hopes for ever bigger revenues. I tried to love it so hard and again supported buying new dlc's up to certain point when I gave up on the game all together, finding the classic still more enjoyable. The Angler... That was 100% waste of resources, some of us tried to say that it can't reach big return of investments as it can't compete with hardcore fishing sims built with completely different business model, and it's left with relatively small target audience. But it was okay, we still had the good old Classic...wait... If the decision to pull the plug on the classic goes into action and we all lose every single cent of money we invested into on this game, I will personally have to boycott the publisher and developer for the rest of my life, giving a penny to the same developer would go strongly against my own morale at that point. I and thousands of others have supported and stayed on board through many disappointments but there is a limit of how deep you can push the knife into the people who financially allowed you to build your company and where you are today. If maximizing the profits looks like a winning long term strategy, you may still end up losing a huge portion of your lifelong customer base with broken trust that will affect all future sales negatively. I will not say this thing has become a scam but when you think about it on different angles, thousands of customers paid hundreds, thousands and some even +10k euros/dollars on this thing, and in the end we are now left without anything we invested into. Someone else could see that ethically wrong or even call it being scammed. Can we get our money back if you terminate the product we paid for? Can I get my 1000e back if you think it's okay to take the money and terminate the ability to use the product we paid for? All I can say, hope the developer understands the damage they are doing to themselves too. You guys will lose a lifetime supporters and will show all your customers what the ethics and morale of this developer/publisher has become. If there is a will, there is way. It's up to the developer if they choose the money and run away, or really wan't to find ways to keep the classic alive. Release the core stuff as open source for volunteers to take over instead of killing everything? I understand it will 100% mean losing lot of functions and probably needs changing all licensed gun etc names to generic stuff and what not, but nothing is impossible unless you guys really wan't to kill the game and shoot yourself in the leg by eliminating thousands of long time supporters, who also were potential future customers. Just a food for thought. Lastly the game itself? Like said, despite it's age, it's absolutely fantastic slower pace and more realism oriented hunting sim, despite it's age and limitations of the game engine it's still one of the best, and personally I'd still take this over the COTW any day of the week. We WERE still happy to at least have the original game to play but in a brief moment we will lose everything we ever invested for, beginning from +15 years ago. That gives a bitter end to what once was the best gaming experiences and memories I've personally ever had. It would be an "okay loss" if the money spent were like 30-50e instead of +1000e, or even +10000e (yes that is +10k) like some have. Sorry for the rant... I feel so bad for so many others too, perhaps the publisher alone knows how much money it made with us and our support especially on the golden years when we had monthly subscriptions and single weapons or items costing more than some other video games do. It was worth it as not many of us ever thought that this game could just completely cease to exist with every player's +15 years of history and statistics when the developer decides to terminate our ability to use what we paid for. Better luck next time & thanks for payi...playing!

great game one of the best ive played hope it stays alive for a long time

STOP KILLING GAMES