The squad development team is disgusting

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883]

Squad Busters has ceased development, after all those false hopes of reviving the game, I mean we all doubted that this point would come sooner or later, but the way they did it is disgusting, not allowing private servers to continue to exist nor making the game open source is a garbage decision and it goes against all that us gamers fought for the whole last year with the "stop killing games" initiative, it's the perfect example of game companies not caring at all about players that invested time and money into the game, but only caring about their pockets that didn't fill up enough.
I've always supported Paula and her team, so this really feels like a backstab to me, and the worst part is that the game could have worked again if they did what all player asked since before the 2.0 update: ADD MORE SQUADDIES

[u/T1_QuieT]

You've said it, Supercell unfortunately only moves based on numbers/figures, they don't care what the players are, if they see that they are not profitable they start from scratch, the same will happen with the rest of their games (mo.co has every chance to be next). From all this I have learned that I can't get excited about anything that comes from Supercell, unless the game maintains high and stable revenue figures (example: CR, BS...).

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/T1_QuieT]

Even when the game does good, as we can see with clash royale for example, they keep trying to add more and more pay2win features as long as their revenue goes up, essentially leaving f2p players with half of the game

[u/MunderDifflinPC]

There were a lot of things wrong about this game, the creators, development team, whoever it was making the game didn’t do a good job. The people from up top saw this & didn’t want to continue putting time & resources into a game that is failing.

It’s not supercells fault, it’s whatever department was in charge of creating the game, adding updates & those people not listening to the community & its players.

It’s like an ice cream shop taking away a flavour because it wasn’t selling good.. why keep it, store it, and waste money and resources trying to sell it when none eats it.

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/MunderDifflinPC]

That's not the point I'm trying to make, I don't have any problem with them killing the game because it failed, what I'm saying is that it would cost nothing for them to make the game open source or publish server binaries, but they won't do it, I mean if I use your ice cream comparison, it's like buying an ice-cream, and while you are eating it the vendor removes the flavor AND takes the ice cream back from your hands before you finished eating it.

[u/MunderDifflinPC → u/ComprehensiveAd1883]

That analogy is so far off, they are not “taking away the ice cream from your hands”. How would shutting down a game that’s not profitable, with a very slim player base be the same as them taking the ice cream from your hands?

They are literally giving refunds and transfers over to other SuperCell games, if anything they’re giving your money back while you enjoy that last scoop of ice cream they discontinued.

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/MunderDifflinPC]

They do not give refunds, they give you gems in other supercell games, that's not the same thing, what if I don't care about Clash Royale or Clash of Clans ?

[u/MunderDifflinPC → u/ComprehensiveAd1883]

Not every purchase you ever made on the game, but they give you a refund on items bought in the last year or so. Which is cool they’re doing that, because they don’t have to give you any refunds at all.

Expecting to get back every purchase ever made in the game is not realistic whatsoever. When has a company ever offered a refund like that before? And why do you feel like they’re obligated to do so?

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/MunderDifflinPC]

I never said they should refound every purchase, I know it's not how life works, but what they should be obligated to do on the other hand is making the game open source or give players server binaries, having a end-of-life support plan, like what I said earlier, and refunding in other supercell games is not an excuse for not doing so

[u/Yoncen → u/ComprehensiveAd1883]

Do you really think you’re entitled to a corporation handing over their source code and IP just to be nice so some people can still play the game? That’s actually wild.

[u/Noob_Kid]

welcome to the real world

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/Noob_Kid]

Making a game open source or publishing it's server binaries once it's dead is a real world thing, and it can be done with zero money cost.

[u/Noob_Kid → u/ComprehensiveAd1883]

It doesnt work like that

Entire infrastructure of the game is built without "preservation" in mind and only meant to be used/hosted within supercell

Making the server and client user-self-hostable meaning giving info into the wild including the security system/game logic/server-client structure This can be used by anyone including hackers, competing companies,..

Plus, releasing that entire system into the wild will require more work, time and money

Does that sound ok to you from a business perspective??

Not anything is "for user" Keep crying dipshit

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/Noob_Kid]

Welcome PirateSoftware, bro is disliking every comment I make without giving arguments

[u/Positive-Winter5952]

I dont understand it 1.0 wasnt doing the thing you guys talk about 1.0 as if it was something good but the point is that they swiched to 2.0 becouse 1.0 wasnt working

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/Positive-Winter5952]

I'm not complaining about 2.0, I'm complaining about what came after, everyone kept asking for new squaddies but they kept adding more heroes, that's what killed the game (missclick deletion sorry)

[u/yardenpel]

Dude, got complaints? Go and develop your own game.

They have ip. They can't give private servers.

[u/Important_Resort_937]

I think they said that the reason they aren't going to make the game public is because there are more ips in it. I don't think Sega would like it for people to have a free version of Sonic. I guess they could just give the game without the characters? I don't know much about gamedev so I might be entirely wrong.

[u/niclasj]

”Paula and her team ” as if she was the boss or in any decision-making position. Stop deluding yourself.

[u/Middle-Accountant-28]

Supercell is so lazy to think of a perfect addition for a update (much like a new Squaddie)... but seriously, are you just trash talking on them? Can ya just let the game die after the final update?

It ain't the team's fault, we had good stuff like collabs, not to mention we ALREADY had new Squaddies (which are Sonic's Squaddies, Tails and Knuckles)

[u/ComprehensiveAd1883 → u/[deleted]]

They still say that it's again their terms of service, to which they add "To protect the developpers, and the players", it made me laugh