[2020] People need to lighten up about the team games...

Interesting discussions here!

For a bit of context, we feel like team games were important for a few reasons.

1. The vast majority of players in our playtests enjoy them! It can seem like most players hate them when you go onto forums but the online community tends to represent a loud, very competitive, but ultimately small community. We have to make sure we balance this feedback with the unspoken majority too, and so we have analytics that will be tracking things like quit rates etc. that we'll be using to make decisions around things like this.
2. The chaos of bumbling Fall Guys trying to do complex tasks together is just inherently funny and really does capture what we're trying to make here. Tellign people to 'take things less seriously' is not the right advice as it devalues the way they play games, but we do genuinely think that this sudden 'ok now struggle to work together ' is part of what makes Fall Guys so unique.
3. As mentioned below, it gives lower skilled players a chance to progress as part of a team. We want Fall Guys to be accessible for lots of players, and we like the way it gives people the chance to qualify who tend to go out in the 3rd/4th round.
4. It allows us to do 'scoring' rounds in a simple way that doesn't need 60 player's scoring UI on the screen at once. Pretty quickly we found that this opened up a ton new ideas for us and gave us a lot more flexibility as a design team. That's not to say we'll never ever do a FFA scoring round, but hopefully it gives some context. We think the variety of rounds they bring to the game really helps the play experience overall and is a worthy trade off for the occasional frustration of having a useless team.
5. It slightly encourages players to party up. This is generally just good for the game's eco-system as a whole (but is ultimately not super important compared to the other points).
   

This all being said, we really like the idea of doing a 'pure solos' or 'Gauntlet Only' playlist in some form down the line, so if team games aren't your thing there should be events/modes that appeal to you in the future. We're still figuring this out and timelines are up in the air given launch craziness, but don't worry, we ARE listening!

This is on our list of things to get fixed ASAP

hey, thanks for taking the time to write this out.

The feedback we get from Reddit is totally valid and you're right that players here do represent a significant chunk of our fans. But, it does not represent ALL of them, so we need to be careful not to make snap decisions based on what's posted here.

You don't find team games fun, that's OK but I just want to make it clear that lots of people DO find them fun. We're keeping an eye on things like team-ganging to see if they become predominant strategies but the game has only been out for 2 days. We want to see what develops there and from our observations so far it's not enough of an issue that we want to take action there right now. We might in the future though- it's tricky because our playtests of two-team games like egg scrambles weren't as fun as the 3 player versions; things tended to skew one way and never go back, whereas 3 team version were more chaotic, less predictable and ultimately more fun.

I think what we can do is make sure that as many people as possible get to play a version of Fall Guys that they enjoy, and down the road I'm sure we'll do a more competitive 'solos' round

Yeah, you're right, we could totally figure it out! Ultimately this was just one of those things that we had to drop for launch due to time constraints but I'm sure we'll bring it back in some form one day.