The Brickadia game - A Short Story
I am Dingo Ananas, your favorite perma banned user from EA.
I Bought this game and this is my fair and honest review on it.
I have around 33 000 hours (yes 33k) of gameplay in this game and i am also the person who played the most of it. I built that giant city called Brickadia City (started in Blockland in 2016, go figure about the name), and i ported this build to Brickadia in mid 2017. The development of this game was initially started by Trigun in Blockland, and my city build was used as a viewer to help checking the performances. Some months later S and Z joined and started working on the project alone, Trigun left for various reasons (they didnt share the same "ideas").
There has been a lot of pros and cons about this game/drama/team management i am going to detail a bit in this review. You can contact me or check the Brickadia Independent Community forums for more.
The pros:
- I dont think there is another sandbox like this game. You literally can build anything you want, from a little nothing to + 10m bricks saves. I think a lot of people will enjoy it. The liberty is total
- You can make custom vehicles and machines (wires) using various mechanisms ingame.
- You can make boats for now, maybe planes later
- For most of the users, the game will run fine, i dont think most of you will build more than some millions bricks per server.
- The general interface is good enough tho i dont like round shapes, but this is a personal opinion.
- Large maps load faster than the Alpha 5.
The cons:
- When you want to load huge maps, the game become unstable, sometimes crash. Use directX11 for better performances.
- Driving the vehicles can be complicated, it drive badly (very badly) on normal bricks, and if you want to avoid this, you will have to use ramps only, which is a big no.
- Learning all the tools and building keys can be tough, they are making controller support, which is funny.
- Maps: They lack maps, is it that complicated to make 2 or 3 more maps, in 8 years of dev?
- If you dont like to build, you will be bored very fast.
- You cant explode and destroy stuff yet, maybe later, who knows?
- In multi, the game lag a LOT, big builds run very bad with more than 6/10 people. And servers often crash.
The development of this game:
It was horrible. Despite having a huge community of testers, the devs did chose to create nepotism in the community, favorizing only their beloved ones.
- You wonder why the game is so much glitchy? The QA team probably didnt really test anything. (It lasted 4 or 5 years). They did a Beta 10 days before the EA. lol.
- various people asked for new stuff and mechanics, they were barely listened.
- We waited years to have updates. If you want modding, well, maybe in 2030?
- The communication is a BIG issue. They never tell anything about what they do. Who do that in a game dev??
- There was known perdo affair (actually more than one) and when we through it was done, some of the banned dev was seen in the game today. (???)
- i have personally citicized the devs for their inactions in some things or not very useful choices of things, to end by being perma banned from the EA. You cannot trust them.
- They ban people VERY easily, sometimes for thigns they drawn or said outside the game juridiction.
- Do not trust them when they tell you they never ghost people. We got a lot of messages from people being banned for no reasons, and they never accept to answer to you, neither in discord or by email.
- parts of the existing community is very toxic, and devs allow the people they like to slander/harass you, saying horrible things i cant tell here, without doing any actions, despite breaking their own rules.
- All the existing moderators are biaised, living in a cult/echochamber. Once the devs tell them to ghost you, they really ghost you. They block you from everywhere (social network, discord messages), and refuse to answer you. How can you defend yourself when the only ways to tell them are blocked? Only the devs opinons matter count.Yea.
- Some people had to force the devs to answer about the bans (invoking GDPR EU laws) to get an answer, just for them to answer "We have no proofs of why we banned you, we just do not like you". This is close to fascism.
My final ideas about the game?
=> I consider this game unsafe for +13 years children. Lot of them are not mature at this age, and will probably end up being banned for reasons they dont even understand. Lot of users have autism/adhd, me included, and having such frustration is more harmful than anything else. Some children are seeking for an online refuge, well, i am not sure this is the place for it.
=> Accepting back banned devs (for pedo) is insane. this do tell a lot about the moderation.
=> When you buy the game, you buy a tempoary licence. They can revoke you any times, when the gods are pleased to. banning you from servers, even discord, is understandable. But banning you completly from online play is not. Your whole family will be banned too if they decided to ban you. - *It can be your dog, we dont care* Said a dev on brickbot.
This was my honest and personal review. You can PM me to ask more about anything you want. Sorry for my english if it has funny words/grammar issue. It is not my first language.
I wish the devs will eventually rethink about all the unfairly banned users, me included, and eventually consider stop acting like children and unban everyone for the EA, as they promized in an email i got.
Regards
