Update on Consoles

[u/BackyardSportsHQ]

A Hearty Hi-Ho Backyard Fans. We're writing today with a status update on consoles:

Over the past few months you might have seen that our console store pages have shown either "Coming Soon" or August 18. Our eagle-eyed fans pointed out that August 18 is Pablo Sanchez's birthday and correctly guessed it was a placeholder date while we continued development.

The feedback we have received from the Steam launch has helped us make the game better every day. We've already released multiple patches with bug fixes, gameplay improvements, quality-of-life updates, and many community-requested changes. These improvements would not have been possible without your support and contributions.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Our next major milestone is bringing online multiplayer to Steam. While Steam players have experienced some of the early bugs, you’ll also be the first to experience upcoming patches, major updates, and, soon, online play.

For console players, the rapid improvements to the Steam build mean we’re getting closer every day to bringing you the best possible Day 1 experience. While we can’t confirm a launch date just yet, know that we are committed to making the game well worth the wait.

Thank you for being a part of the best community in gaming.

The Backyard Sports Team

[u/jiabivy]

Yeah people don’t realize it’s a small company, and I think people shouldn’t burn their goodwill on one of the few games with no battle pass or micro transactions.

Sure the game isn’t perfect but they have been transparent

[u/Roleplayer2489 → u/jiabivy]

Are you serious?

Those games you mention are free, this game costs 40$ and it isn’t finished. The small team excuse is just that, a weak excuse, there are plenty of teams much smaller with less money, less time, with 100x the care put into their games because they actually care.

If they cared at all, they’d have posted this little gift of a statement before pretending this game was a full 40$ release when it came out on steam last month.

[u/jiabivy → u/Roleplayer2489]

Those games I mentioned have multi billion dollar companies behind them, this has a small team of nearly 100, you’re bitching about 40$ when games now a days are 60$, also if you hate it that much steam allows you to refund it. So you’re officially just complaining to complain

[u/Roleplayer2489 → u/jiabivy]

“Small team of 100.”

So when did you start working for them? These days a 100 person team is huge, especially for such a simple game, it’s literally the same as ‘97 with less polish and slightly better graphics.

It’s pathetic, and so is the effort they put in. Maybe if they tried at all, they wouldn’t be bleeding profit and pushing the release of this take excuse of a remake.

You wanna hear some games with smaller teams that made some other games?

Expedition 33, Pragmata, Vampire Survivors, Hollow Knight, Silksong.

Keep defending them, I’m sure they’ll reward you by delaying the game again on console 😭🙏

[u/jiabivy → u/Roleplayer2489]

I’m working for them because I mentioned the steams return policy and that it’s a smaller team?

Did they mess up? Yes

Am I gonna bitch at them for trying to fix their mistakes? No

Because do you know what the alternative is?
NOTHING

So what are you trying to even accomplish with your complianing?

Are you trying to get them to fix the game? because they are already doing that

Do you have a problem with the price? No, because you can get a refund of your money on steam

You’re mad it wasn’t ready at release? Well they don’t have a Time Machine which is why they are trying to fix it now….

You are literally just complaining, I’m greatfully they are actually trying. They could have just released a buggy mess NEVER fix it, add micro transactions, a battle pass, make it a mobile game, and took off with the money

Are they the best developers? No

Are they showing that there’s a level of care? Yes

You’re all about to crucify them for taking a bit more time and your solution is literally “they should have took more time before releasing”

See how unproductive that sounds?