Sunless Skies - New Region Albion Available

Sunless Skies adds the new region of Albion.

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We’ve added a second region to Sunless Skies! Explore Albion, the heart of the British Empire's territory in the High Wilderness; and the only place you can reliably get a decent cup of tea -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN.

Set a course for the heavens in your steam locomotive! Lose yourself in a changing universe where even time can be bought. A Victorian Gothic adventure for PC, Mac and Linux. ©2018 Failbetter Games LTD. Sunless Skies is a trademark of Failbetter Games Ltd, 2018. All other trademarks and Tradenames are properties of their respective Owners.

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If it has the same fuel system as Sunless Seas, I'll gladly pass…

Nice artwork with a unique look.

I never played the other games but it sounds like SS suffers from similar problems, as well as extreme sequel fatigue. The low number of reviews plus recent layoffs is not a good look for the company.

The Sunless Seas game has reasonably good ratings on Metacritic, so apparently most people don't share this rather dismal view. I checked out the Let's Play videos and it seems decent enough. I think it just hasn't had enough publicity.

People usually tend to rate high early released products as negative reports work against what they desire: completion of the product. People figured out that channeling revenues to an early released product increase the chances of completion.

Not uncommon that people who were vocal advocates for a product turn into vocal advocates against once the product hits the final release.

Originally Posted by screeg
I never played the other games but it sounds like SS suffers from similar problems,

No. It fixed some issues the previous title had.

Originally Posted by ChienAboyeur
People usually tend to rate high early released products as negative reports work against what they desire: completion of the product. People figured out that channeling revenues to an early released product increase the chances of completion.

Not uncommon that people who were vocal advocates for a product turn into vocal advocates against once the product hits the final release.

Well we've seen the opposite happen; advocates for a game turn strongly against it after release. People have expectations that must be met. The game has a better user score than T:ToN, for example.

An opposite would be a person who is a vocal advocate against a product during early release developpment and turns into a vocal advocate for a product once its final release. Very rare.

Originally Posted by ChienAboyeur
An opposite would be a person who is a vocal advocate against a product during early release developpment and turns into a vocal advocate for a product once its final release. Very rare.

This I actually believe is true. I'm very sceptic of your other conclusions though, that people would leave a good review in order for a game to get better because of bigger cash inflow. These cases probably exist, but I'm pretty sure they're uncommon.

What I do believe though is people leave good reviews because they think a game is good, or at least that it certainly can be with more development time. That is not the same thing as leaving a good review although you think the game is bad but hope it will be good with more development money. To far fetched.

I also believe people will leave bad reviews when a game isn't what they expected/wanted. TToN and Elex are good examples of this. Both good or even great games in my opinion, but TToT isn't PS:T enhanced edition and Elex isn't TES5 (both pros and not cons to me, but obviously not to a lot of the people on Steam).

People believe what they believe.

After reading reviews on SEA, people fitted the pattern: they wrote good reviews in order to channel revenues to the product. Some opened up about it.

Beside, the steam forum is also a mine: people who take a stance against an early access product are met by a wall of people who would prefer good publicity to channel revenues. Once again, some of them opened up about it.

The bias is at work.

Elex was a finished product at release. Nothing to do with EA.