Island Sanctuary: The Tragedy Of What Could Have Been

[Kaurhz]

To their defense, they did openly state several times that players should be tempering their expectations.... Though I don't think this excuses the fact of simply turning the instance into a glorified weekly retainer venture.

It definitely is sickening though, regardless of the above.

[Jaltaer]

I'm still not over them adding more and more "rare" animals to capture, and then just... never giving us a further pasture upgrade or anything of the sort so you can actually have all of them at once. We have 20 pasture slots, but there are almost 30 animals with weather and/or time based spawns...

[Infindox]

Look, Island Sanctuary was never going to be a new form of housing, that was just players deluding themselves.

What they promised was what you got, a farming simulator that was meant to be casual content, nothing more.

I never expected housing.
I expected them to keep updating it at least a little bit (upgrades maybe, new things to make and grow, new things you could build). Instead they just abandoned the whole thing. I still use it a bit because it's a good source of Hi-Cordials, but otherwise it's just something I plug in Monday night for the week, check it the next Monday night, rinse and repeat.

[Saraide]

Look, Island Sanctuary was never going to be a new form of housing, that was just players deluding themselves.

What they promised was what you got, a farming simulator that was meant to be casual content, nothing more.

Oh I didnt expect them to. SE's incompetence is too well known for that. But it is laziness to not do it and yoship even admitted this 'oh well this is all we promised so no need to try' problem in the last live letter.

[Kozh]

Look, Island Sanctuary was never going to be a new form of housing, that was just players deluding themselves.

What they promised was what you got, a farming simulator that was meant to be casual content, nothing more.

Idk man, even as farming sim it kinda fails? It's more like spreadsheet simulator. You spend most of the time managing mammets rather than doing, you know, farming. As someone who love farming sim (Harvest moon, stardew valley), island sanctuary fails at everything for me.

[Mawlzy]

Oh I didnt expect them to. SE's incompetence is too well known for that. But it is laziness to not do it and yoship even admitted this 'oh well this is all we promised so no need to try' problem in the last live letter.

Indeed, it would be nice if SE occasionally exceeded our low expectations, rather than apparently trying to slide by with the bare minimum of effort and innovation.

[Astronema]

I've said already what needs done. Volcano erupts and island sinks in the ocean.