Every time I see posts like this I just laugh and scoff. Are you seriously doubting vetexgames, the one and only indie game dev CARRYING Roblox? Without arcane odyssey the state of indie development on roblox would be gone.
By that, i specifically mean: You ignore the fucking context of roblox.
The context being that for all the platforms achievements, Roblox is barren.
Roblox is a broken platform. Per game, no slop is better than grow a garden ,or escape diddy obby, and THAT trend only happened in the last couple of 6 or 7 years. Before that, roblox was a little better, much weaker as a corporation/business, but it had more games with soul.
Bu now, Vetex is afraid to throw his weight around, because if the AO leadership gets one of these updates or new mechanics wrong, millions could logoff the platform indirectly.
Vetex fears instability more than anything, since in Roblox, when there’s a content drought, MILLIONS logoff. When there’s a controversy, 10’s or 100’s of millions logoff.
AND Arcane Odyssey only just now left the century of humiliation.
AND right now, Roblox is involved in the opening stages of WW3 with Schlep with a HISTORY of starting lawsuits for stupid reasons, AND using corpo ads on the platform, AND who has stated goals of destroying Indie development generally, and their own platform specifically, AND has policy papers calmly discussing the best way to carpet nuke smaller devs.
Which the platform is within a hair’s breadth of doing.
You have NO IDEA of the goddamn stakes.
IF ARCANE ODYSSEY goes down, that’s it.
That’s the end of the indie game dev project, the end of Robloxian civilization.
We won’t be back for thousands of years, maybe never.
Vetex is fighting for ALL the marbles.
Vetex cannot afford to take risks, and only now is he starting to regain some of the confidence he used to have in Arcane Adventures and deserves.
His primary issue is new mechanics and experimenting.
There will be no true FULL FULL release until that is dealt with.
Which means step 1 is: BE ALIVE.
Vetex does more for the platform by just EXISTING than he would have he was making your little nitpicky changes constantly. Had he done THAT, AO would now be playerless, underdeveloped, and standing alone against the empire of slop games, without the backing of Moochezz, galaga, and most of the actual playerbase.
r/ArcaneOdyssey is more your speed. Go play with the ‘Mages’