Despite the MMORPG’s name, things in Brighter Shores do not appear to be very sunny right now, as players have begun to sink the game’s Steam score with negative reviews and express their frustration at a perceived lackadaisical dev approach, a lack of meaningful updates, and missed update promises, along with complaints about grind and monetization.
The shift in sentiment has caused developer Fen Research to start issuing a weekly newsletter, the first of which details efforts by specific devs on map design, coding, and hiring more workers. Lead dev Andrew Gower further hit back at the matter on Twitter, outlining the things he’s been doing over the past five months that include the combat rework and the updates to leaderboards, all of which were because of community feedback.
“I am a bit baffled by [people] saying I am not listening to community feedback,” Gower writes. “The reason we are behind on our early acess [sic] roadmap is because I have being doing all that INSTEAD of my original roadmap! So I am truely baffled by the response! Next I am planning on getting back on to the early access roadmap.”
As one might expect, this tweet doesn’t appear to have helped things among most players, as replies argue that features listed should be expected of all games and that quality-of-life isn’t the most important thing to work on, while others are taking Gower’s side or believing that people just like to complain.
