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[–] echo64 167 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's cool how you can be providing the labor for a company and then that company gets bought by another company and the shareholders who don't actually make the thing get rich and then you get fired because the other company has a bad year even though the thing you labored for is incredibly successful.

[–] Squizzy 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tangentially, I haven't played in ages but they should have made it local coop so we can have fun on the courses without having to play through the same few opening courses and deal with lobbies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, them deciding that no stage is sacred and not allow for any offline or private play was extremely frustrating and made it so that I just lost the ability to give a shit at all about the game

[–] knightry 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Custom lobbies (i.e. the exact feature you're asking for) were launched in December 2020, in beta mode, then March 2021 to everyone. So the feature you wanted has been there for over 2.5 years.

It's always fascinating to me to see highly rated comments that are pretty out of touch with the actual subject matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me it just shows that they made the change far too late for anyone to even notice. It's not reasonable to be a subject matter expert in every game one's ever played.

[–] Squizzy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this, I see this a lot in the Joe Rogan..."I bet you haven't watched all his shows, so how can you say you don't like him" you should'nt need to know everything in detail to form an opinion

[–] Squizzy 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does a custom lobby relate to local coop? And how does it help in getting to play selected courses?

[–] cobysev 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should've stuck with Steam instead of going exclusive through Epic Games. Epic's predatory practice of PC exclusives makes it hard to survive something like this. If they existed on a broader spectrum of services, this would be no big deal.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Um, they were purchased by Epic. They didn’t have a choice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Rocket League devs made it work somehow.

[–] bobbysq 1 points 1 year ago

You still can't get Rocket League on Steam on an account that didn't already have the game bought before it was F2P. Is this the case for Fall Guys, or did they go further and stop updating the Steam version?

[–] TheDarkKnight 1 points 1 year ago

I guess by making it work you mean not having a significant change outside of the introduction of tournaments and knockout ltm both of which were launched years ago. I love the game to death but Psyonix isn’t doing shit besides making cosmetics and supposedly migrating to Unreal 5 which we’ve not heard a peep about in ages.

I wish they would’ve actually kept developing the game but its a cosmetic collectathon now.

[–] favrion 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember the 29 days when Fall Guys was relevant.

[–] Cypher 14 points 1 year ago

The four days before cheating became rampant were amazing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wait... was it a leap year this year? 🤔

[–] HeyJoe 12 points 1 year ago

As someone who has played the game from day 1, and almost every day since, it's a shame that this game that already is on auto drive will be crippled even further. If you have a bunch of friends who just wanna chat and don't wanna play something competitive it fills all those roles.

I guess we should expect even less changes and content going forward... I know the level creation was just created to allow the community to provide free content so I wonder what else they can do to continue this or if the game will just die off.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

'Epic layoffs' is a pretty funny term in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They just did that FF14 collab too... I think the fall guys portion of it was already accessible but I think the ff14 event is coming up next patch?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp. I only played Murder By Numbers from them, but it's sad to see a studio you know get hit like that.

[–] slimerancher 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooh, I didn't know it was by them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yea, it was a fun little mash up of VN and nonograms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I played it obsessively for the first season and got pretty decent at it.

The second season started, I got disconnected from my first four games about 3 rounds into each. Played it once more on the day that you could cheese the Infallible achievement by running Hoverboard Heroes over and over.

Never played it again. Certainly never touched it since it went "free".