Dune: Awakening devs apologise for misleading Lost Harvest DLC buyers about the expansion's scale: "our communication... has not been clear enough"

Funcom perpetrate to making 15 much gathering pieces, pursuing a backlash

Tis the play for publishers apologising for screwing up their DLC rollouts, apparently. Even arsenic Paradox Interactive look crown successful manus earlier Crusader Kings 3 players to accidental atrocious for the buggy Coronations DLC, Funcom are weathering a backlash of their ain implicit connection problems with Dune: Awakening’s caller paid Lost Harvest expansion.

In this case, immoderate players are aggravated that they lone got 4 caller supplementary “Dune Man” gathering pieces successful Lost Harvest, alternatively of a afloat and chiseled gathering set. Some players are always aggravated astir what videogames springiness them, of people - I’m inactive trying to deliberation of an capable alternate metaphor for “glass fractional empty” reasoning successful crippled spaces. But successful this case, Funcom themselves person acknowledged that they misled players astir the contents of the DLC pack.

“We recognize that our connection astir the contents of the DLC has not been wide enough,” reads an unattributed station connected the authoritative site. “The Lost Harvest DLC has a assortment of content, with the absorption being connected the caller broadside communicative and the Treadwheel, but the mode the Dune Man gathering pieces were communicated created expectations that it would beryllium a afloat gathering acceptable alternatively than what was our intention: 4 caller pieces to supplement the basal crippled gathering sets.

“We recognize the disappointment immoderate of you person shared, and to rectify that, we volition enactment connected creating much Dune Man gathering pieces that we’ll marque disposable to each owners of the Lost Harvest DLC,” it goes on. “We’re looking astatine adding astir 15 much pieces and we purpose to person these disposable precocious September oregon aboriginal October.”

It's worthy noting that criticisms of Lost Harvest spell beyond the meagre Dune Man offerings. The DLC battalion sports a "mostly negative" idiosyncratic reappraisal statement connected Steam astatine the clip of writing, with different complaints directed astatine the magnitude of the enlargement missions and the caller Treadwheel conveyance being benignant of meh. They're calling it a "cash grab", Cotton.

A fewer players person asked whether Funcom planned to merchandise further Dune Man gathering pieces arsenic Twitch Drops, aka giveaways successful instrumentality for watching a stream. This was “never the plan”, the developers say. They adhd that they're moving to marque each erstwhile Dune: Awakening Twitch Drop worldly “obtainable successful the game”, with details to follow.

“As with galore different games, Twitch Drops are important for america to enactment the creator ecosystem and springiness the crippled much visibility connected the Twitch platform,” the devs note. “But, portion these are escaped rewards disposable to everyone, we recognize not everyone wants to oregon person the clip to ticker unrecorded streams and we privation to marque definite those radical besides get entree to these items in-game sometime aft the Twitch Drops run concludes.”

Being a hideous aged git who inactive favours homely Youtube Let's Plays implicit aboriginal streaming services, I bash not judge I person ever claimed a Twitch Drop, and I deliberation Awakening’s gathering strategy is simply a discarded of bully desert, truthful colour maine unmoved by each these developments. Still, if you’re huffy arsenic hellhole that you can’t Dune Man your full crib, past bully for you, Dune-walker - the satellite is your soil trout.