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Have you ever wanted a game with a very fun and satisfying gameplay loop, over-the-top satirical humor, and no FOMO from time-based rewards?

Well then, how about adding in a comically unprofessional community management team that actively belittles and antagonizes their players, absolutely baffling design decisions, a constant stream of new bugs that can't get fixed because the dev team is too busy hammering out the new content management committed them to, devs that hate players not playing exactly how the devs intended them to, a progression system where costs scaled out of control within 3 months of release and forces players to play on a difficulty even the devs say "not everyone can beat missions on"?

Boy have I got the game for you!

Seriously, though, Arrowhead, you struck gold with this game. I truly hope you can train your community team to communicate professionally instead of calling players toddlers, and that you can see the value of emergent gameplay. The entire Sony debacle has proven that you *can* be better, and I hope you continue to get there as the game grows.

This review has been edited twice - once after the PSN debacle, and once months later. Arrowhead has repeatedly shown that they are incapable of running a live service game. They have repeatedly antagonized their playerbase, making the entire community more and more toxic; they constantly nerf tools of the players based entirely on usage metrics without any understanding of WHY these tools are being so overused; and on the rare occasions where they do something right, they turn around and release something new that completely undoes it within a couple weeks. At this point, I haven't played in months, because I check in after major updates and learn things have only gotten worse. Those I know that still try will play a few sessions after each major update and then stop for weeks (until the next one). I WANT this game to be good, but with Arrowhead at the helm, it becomes clearer every day that it will never be again.

I cannot recommend this highly enough. It's adorable, it's clever, it couldn't care less about the fourth wall. Play it blind, and don't be afraid to let yourself care if you want the most out of it.