The end result- Uber were forced to massively cut headcount. PA was hit by 'screw uber' reviews and they managed to pull original PA down from a positive score to very negative (about 20% at it's worst) on steam- all bemoaning how uber 'lied' to backers.īasically they managed to kill the kickstarter- the funding stopped coming in and with only a few days left Uber pulled it rather than letting it fail. The initial launch of the kickstarter went well- raising a good chunk of the money they needed, then the anti uber brigade got involved- news story comment sections, the kickstarter itself and anywhere there was any positive information about the project were *flooded* by this group telling stories of how Uber serially abandon games and never finish them (citing SMNC no longer getting updates- despite Uber continuing to this day to keep the servers going for a F2P game that made them no money)- they also concluded that Uber were 'abandoning' PA due to it not being completely finished at launch. However- when Uber declared PA launched, this group got a lot more support and a lot more people got angry. These were generally outweighed by more positive people who were supporting the game during development.
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Now you need to understand- there was a hardcore group of anti uber people left over from the end of Super Monday Night Combat- and also a group who generally didn't like PA ('RTS on Planets Sucks'). Just after the PA launch they announce the HR kickstarter
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PA at launch was missing a number of features promised in the kickstarter (which Uber said they were still working on and were still coming, the main ones being offline mode, the unit cannon and save / load functionality) Uben significantly grew their team during PA development (up to about 60 devs) by the time the original version of PA was released. PA really brought something new to the table even if not to everyone's taste.Ī very abridged history of Human Resources: These are all decent but also play it pretty safe. Homeworld Deserts of Karak (also the remasters of the original HW1 / HW2), it's a nice game Grey Goo (came out around the same time as original PA) Click to expand.PA:Titans actually has been doing quite well since the Winter sale- and you are correct it's one of a handful of recent RTS titles and imo by far the most innovative.