A month after Amazon released their third person shooter game / MOBA / battle royal / what the hell is this game, Melting potThe company has not released it due to the large number of negative comments. “Starting tomorrow, Crucible is moving to closed beta,” said the Melting pot team in a blog this morning. All current players will automatically be included in the closed beta, and anyone who wants to be included has until July 1, 2020, at 9 am PT to get the game. But this is not even the biggest mistake Amazon has made.
The company can’t seem to do the right thing. There was the case where Amazon fired a worker who organized a strike over warehouse conditions amid the covid-19 outbreak. Or his routine of ejecting and then killing devices that people don’t need, like the Dash Wand and Echo Look. The company has been accused of monopolistic business practices and using private data from the Amazon market vendor to make and sell their own competing products. It is confirmed listen to your private conversations through their Alexa smart speakers and does not offer consumers a way to delete transcripts. Hell, her former vice president and distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services, Tim Bray,. recently resigned on Amazon’s “chickenshit” response to employee protests regarding workplace conditions in a covid-19 world. And now Melting pot goes in a closed beta because it sucks a lot.
While the experience of most players will remain the same, the developers will participate in weekly matches with the Melting pot community to collect live comments. Players can still access the game 24/7 and launch it through Steam. “You will keep all the progress and customization items you’ve already earned, and the battle pass, reward tracks, and in-game store will continue to be supported.” Closed beta players can still stream, share screenshots and clips, and talk about the game.
Melting pot, developed by Relentless Studios, which runs under Amazon Game Studios, is Amazon’s first original game title since the company started developing tablet games in 2012. There are three different modes in the game, which are largely inspired by in other mechanics, similar games: Alpha Hunters is like real battle games Fortnite and PUBG that allow you to play alone or team up with a partner. Heart of the Hives pits two teams of four against each other to shoot and complete objectives, such as the team-based MOBA / shooter Supervision. Harvest Command is similar to Heart of the Hives, except its two teams of eight faced off in a goal-based fight. And like other team-based multiplayer games, players take on the role of a ‘hunter’ based on their skills and preferred playstyle.
On the surface, Melting pot It sounded great, but unfortunately it received no positive reviews. IGN He said that most of the fights you do are “extremely boring.” PC Gamer also called boring combat, and that much of Melting pot “It feels like a wrong effort.” Gamespot said, “Melting pot try to do a lot of different things with the same limited list of characters. “Check out all the reviews added on Open criticism It seems that everyone points to a common problem with the game: interesting ideas, poor execution.
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Kotaku He noted that pairing was another of the game’s biggest flaws, which was caused by server issues or the lack of an active player base. Judging from Twitch’s small viewer count when the game initially launched last month (only 5,000 views at the time), it appears that the latter is the problem. Crucible’s only saving grace is (was) that it’s free. The only thing anyone lost while playing was a few hours of their life … assuming they didn’t do any microtransaction.
The game was also missing several key features at launch, common to online multiplayer games. in a Blog published earlier this month, the Melting pot The team said it was still working to put voice chat in the game. It also lacked a surrender option, a system to deal with AFK players ruining matches, an expanded ping system, and a mini map. A look at Trello public developer board They show exactly what they’re working on … and it’s no wonder they’ve decided to bring the game to the closed beta. The number of critical improvements that need to be made shows that the game should never have been released in the state that it was originally.
The fact that it did makes it seem like Amazon was more concerned with launching a product than making sure it had all the right details – details that avid gamers would notice. But it also shows that with Amazon raises billions of dollars in profitThe developers have certain luxuries that most other mainstream studios couldn’t afford, like moving a fully released game to a closed beta to fix it.
But, maybe Amazon should try to stop doing everything everyone else is doing and, oh, I don’t know, make sure its workers are protected of COVID-19 for starters. Or maybe stop thinking insignificant bonuses are suitable for Amazon employees who have continued to work on dangerous conditions throughout the pandemic. You can enter the gaming industry at another time.
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