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Laid off Highguard developer criticises online ‘dogpiling’, ‘ragebait content’ and personal attacks
A Highguard developer who was among those recently laid off has criticised the way the game and its creators were treated online following its reveal. Highguard, the debut game from Wildlight Entertainment, was announced with great fanfare at the close of December’s The Game Awards. Developed by veterans of the hero shooter genre, the game combines FPS mechanics with rideable mounts and ‘raid’ mechanics, with teams tasked with breaching each other’s bases. After weeks of silence, it then launched as a free-to-play title for PC and consoles on January 26 and appeared to enjoy a strong start with nearly 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, but received mixed reviews after launch and saw its concurrent players drop severely – at the time of writing, the game hasn’t passed 5,000 concurrent Steam players all week. Read More...
A Highguard developer who was among those recently laid off has criticised the way the game and its creators were treated online following its reveal.Highguard, the debut game from Wildlight Entertainment, was announced with great fanfare at the close of December’s The Game Awards. Developed by veterans of the hero shooter genre, the game combines FPS mechanics with rideable mounts and ‘raid’ mechanics, with teams tasked with breaching each other’s bases.
After weeks of silence, it then launched as a free-to-play title for PC and consoles on January 26 and appeared to enjoy a strong start with nearly 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, but received mixed reviews after launch and saw its concurrent players drop severely – at the time of writing, the game hasn’t passed 5,000 concurrent Steam players all week.
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