Q: Is Planetary Annihilation a winner already? A:YES

Spent $100 on kickstarter and bought a copy for a friend, would buy it over again. Not disappointed at all!

that's not the final score!

Spent 165 dollars on video game history in the making!

250$ No regrets at all, a RTS masterpiece is born

Super epic. I might suck at it but while I'm sucking I'm having fun

It's funny how people are trying to protect the devs like they were some babies.

We support them, that's what supporting is. Not only putting money in a game but trying to encourage people working hard to make us happy (just in case anyone, again, would think that Uber does not care at all about delivering the best possible game experience).

i dont say anything till the game releases as 1.0 and only gonna say anything when its getting updated to 1.2.

but sofar its good but still many issues

Depends how you measure this.

Uber will likely be most concerned with profit - of course we dont know if the game is already profitable or not since we dont know what the sales for early access have been like. I'd imagine they were decent though, since it was a top selling game on steam for a while (during the sale). Though at the same time I wouldnt under estimate the cost in paying a large team of developers full time..

The rest of us will mostly be concerned with is it a fun game, which of course is subjective. At present if the game was released I'd say it would get below average review scores due to the host of design/balance/technical issues which remain. Fortunately it is still in development, and will be for some time.

I dont think I'd call it a winner at this point though. Certainly it's making good progress to being a good game, but at the moment it has a long way to go.

the game definitvely is a winner in places ... but yet not in those were it realy does matter imo ...

Exactly, it's a circle-jerk from criticism.

I'm trying to stick up for people who are working tirelessly to make this game, but get unfairly criticised by people who make blind assumptions, or jump on the littlest thing. Guess what, getting moaned at for working non-stop on something you love has that effect on people.

Exactly. I always thought this, albeit a pick me up, is a terrible way to react to a thread. If your going to make a counter thread, its borderline troll to name it structurally similar yet reverse to the thread.

meh. I'll like the op anyway. Just callin it out.

They don't need people to stick up for them, they are adults who understand the internet.

People always moan and complain, but that doesn't require a reaction like this.

Community's that feel the need to affirm their own opinions by effectively attacking anybody who disagrees are some of the worst on the internet.

Such open-minded and understanding communities make for good starting points for an eSports scene, too. A great many people on the boards here hope for PA becoming a successful eSports title, yet they seem to fail to see that the public perception of such a community is more important to that end than shielding the developer.

I suspect that you do not want to hear my opinion, but here it goes nevertheless

135 hours played so far and even stated on Steam that the game (given some assumption) is a great fun to play (go check it out if you do not believe that).

I am waiting the release date to see what outsiders will say, and how the overall public will judge the version 1.0 of Planetary Annihilation. Also how Uber will treat its customers base after May.

So far, thanks also to many of your comments to my previous thread, I suspend my judgement.

After the kickstarter I immediately pre purchased it for 40 dollars and so far I prefer PA over supcom a lot. Supcom seems small compared to the scale of PA. There are still some valuable features missing in PA but with every update it's getting better and better!

Keep up the good work dev's!!

PS: I'm happy with the low feature Gamma phase, because having bugs is a lot more annoying than missing some features.

It's good to see that you have shed that irksome human trait, empathy.
Just because they are devs, doesn't mean they are immune to harmful comments, such as those in the other thread that had very little substantial evidence to back them up.

I agree a community should be open, and there should be both positive and negative discussions. I also agree that people should not start slinging personal insults, as this does not help anyone.
However, saying this thread is pointless is hypocritical. One forum member posts a provocative post claiming PA is doomed, and so other forum members try to balance it out by asking for positive thoughts on PA's development and worth. This is the exact thing I would expect from a balanced and open forum. It's not like this thread was created to say "so and so is a jerk". If it was, then egg on my face.

This has nothing to do with empathy, this kind of behaviour of rallying around the devs whenever somebody disagrees with something they have done is extremely toxic to a so called balanced community.

Especially when the point of a balanced community to to accept any view point, not try to forcibly balance out other peoples opinions by creating pointless threads, with no topic, just because you feel like you might hurt the developers feelings if you don't.

Doing this doesn't make for a balanced forum, especially considering the backlash in the other topic.

All this does is make the community seem like a bunch of circlejerking fanboys who will ravage any opposing opinion and then flood the forum with approved messages and threads of praise about how successful a beta game is.

This couldn't be further from what a balanced forum is supposed to be.

Well when the disagreement comes from lack of substantial evidence, I think it IS something the community should respond to.
I'm all for balanced discussion, just not doom mongering clickbait thread titles and the like.

And I only rally around the devs because they participate so much in the forums and try to give honest answers. It's no more than sticking up for someone who's opinions you value or at least understand.

I'll say it again, just calling people names for disagreeing with something is indeed wrong, but pointing out flaws in people's arguments is not.

Also there is nothing wrong with saying "hey Uber, we like what you are doing". These people aren't deluded or circlejerks, they just feel like there has been a lot of negativity around here, and wanted to voice their own positive opinions. If they start to actively attack people who have VALID concerns, or try to silence them, then yes, that is wrong.

P.S. as you may have guessed, I am Pro-Uber LOL
But, being a scientist, my opinion can be changed if enough evidence to the contrary is provided.

P.P.S. I'm not trying to get into a personal argument with you either, it's just how I feel. It's all good.