We can remember that the move was announced way back in 2017 and postdates the large Harmonious Prelude update, which improved the game engine and added new modes on top of the standard 1v1 arena duels. However, the massive backlash that it suffered was a development no one had expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Last Friday\nDeveloper Puny Human said in a Steam post<\/a>, that the change\nwas not a money grab, and that only four items would be for sale through the\nin-game store. He also added that all they wanted, was to make the game\n“more accessible, and have a longer life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegrettably, the game\nhas been swamped with negative reviews<\/a> since the dramatic turn of events. The last 30 days were the worst with “mostly\nnegative,” and just 30% of users\nposted a positive review compared to the other 70%. It is a massive landslide of\nhates in the game’s five-year history\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Skimming\nthrough the reviews, it’s a mixture of existing players who feel outraged about\nthe move to free-to-play, some commented that “it’s a slap in the face for\nthe people that paid money.” and on the\nother hand, new players criticizing the\nperformance and clunky controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Steam Charts<\/a>, the move to going free-to-play has given the player count a hike, and hundreds of players are now onboard opposed to virtually zero in the previous month. But Puny Human<\/a> has to walk on a tight rope to please the new players while fixing bugs to keep veterans satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following\nthe move of making it free, the developers have added 48 new items and rebuilt\nthe beloved Castle map. In the line of\npreserving the players who had purchased the game, Puny Human said in the Steam\npost that \u201cAnyone that owned the premium version of the game will get a total\nof 10 exclusive items, and we hope we won’t have to stop there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game\nwas released in May 2014 and had enjoyed some fairly\ngood reviews. The game is about proving that you are the world’s greatest\nswordsman. Players engage in tactical 1\nvs. 1 and 2\nvs. 2 sword fighting, or sandbox FFA, or\ncapture Control Points in a tactical slashing game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We can remember that the move was announced way back in 2017 and postdates the large Harmonious Prelude update, which improved the game engine and added new modes on top of the standard 1v1 arena duels. However, the massive backlash that it suffered was a development no one had expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realgear.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Free Hates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Small Victory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Blade Symphony: Fall from Grace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n