[2022] Something I'm confused about. [Metaish]

Hey guys, I'm TMTrainer.

You guys probably know me around as that guy on the Temtem Discord, Forums, Steam forums and very rarely on the Reddit. I'm one of the in game GMs, and I've been around in this community for nearly 3.5ish years now...? Yeah, three and a half years since my first official discord message, and a little earlier since buying into the Kickstarter and beginning my once silent watch, but obviously now more active appearance into the community. I've been part of this game since, effectively, the public beginning of the pre-Alpha, missing only the *very* beginning of the community.

I sorta wanted to open this thread as something of an open letter to the community here... not officially, but as a community member who plays the same game as all of you guys. I have close to 6700 hours right now. I've seen this game to the end and back of every feature. Beyond the occasional niche competitive case and the highest end trading, I know the game pretty much inside and out. I also have a unique perspective that's unignorable.... I work for Crema and I have colleagues and friends who work on the game we all play.

My confusion, and the topic of this Reddit post, is there is a distinct amount of vitriolic comments I see growing more and more common and... don't know. There are lots of positive and rightfully well mannered criticisms and feedback, too (and to you guys who stay kind, level headed and give genuine feedback even if you don't agree with something we've done, thank you!) but my premise for making this reddit post is what can we do, as a community, about the negativity?

Perhaps I'm viewing the community with nostalgic, rose tinted glasses. In my position in Crema, I need to interact with both the best and more negative sides of the community. I know beneath the rough surface we have one of the most helpful, kind and, unironically, wholesome communities in the creature collector genre, but there feels to be a group of jaded folks who I'm confused as to where the toxicity stems from.

So I open this thread to talk about the community, maybe to answer questions about the game that don't make it here and perhaps to dispel some misconceptions as well as to open a post where we can all just talk about the stuff in general.

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Originally posted by sirgoldfisch

Hi, also a thank you from me for opening this up. I've also seen the toxic comments under posts and overall negative state of the game posts get more npumerous over the last months and have personally been looking anxiously at the steam charts of temtem after cu1 came out. What i can understand is the negative feelings from some of the community regarding the endgame mmo content that they are lacking and which they want to see to be able to enjoy the game as their main monster taming game. I also understand the devs side who are saying to wait for the updated until the release, BUT The problem I and probably many of those toxic comenters will have in the back of their mind. Is about the uncertainty of temtems future. We dont know whether the devs will start a new advertising campaign once the game releases, we dont know when mmo features that will keep us active will come and we dont know if the game will ever again reach a playercount from its steam ea release. We've seen so many games well received and loved by their community dying in early access, that we cant overlook the many burning questionmarks for the future. I think having them adressed by the Crema team would really ease our minds because if we're honest, crema sure isn't communicating their big plans for the future anymore (as far as ive seen) but they certainly would have the money and talent to lift temtem to new hights and would get an eversomoreloving community if they decided to give us an update on what their plans and ideas are.

We will have a proper marketing campaign done for 1.0. We've never emphasized marketing before because we were aware the gameplay loop wasn't complete for everyone.

We will also talk about the future MMO features, once we can talk about them.

We might or might not live the EA launch numbers again, but Switch and Xbox await, and the world of Temtem is safe regardless.

We've never been ones to share big plans until we have them secured, because the chaos of voices and feedback that ensue is really hard to manage. Sometimes you've just got to keep working until you can talk about them, and when the time comes we will.

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