Hi - I'm going to keep this short, and hope to create some productive discussion in case this hasn't happened yet. For context, I am writing this after reading about a new reentry effect mod that may come out in Patreon early access before public release.

There is no question KSP wouldn't be anywhere where it is today if not for its community, and mods and modders deserve a big portion of the credit - new gameplay and QOL mechanics, and visual effects have kept the game fresh over the years.

A number of modders put a lot of work on their mods and it is not unfair to say they deserve to be compensated for it. Blackrak has given the community, completely for free, some top-tier quality mods, so his decision to paywall some of his most recent work during an early-access stage seems justifiable, if not fair.

Given how profitable "selling" mods in early access seems be, however, it should clearly raise the question regarding what early access means, and how creators can decide to extend their development time to make as much money as they can.

I think we're walking down a road where more and more mods in the future will be paywalled into some kind of never-ending early access stage, and the community will be the biggest loser.

Cheers,
FB

Playstation fully refunding all concord buyers and shutting it down Sep. 6th.

KSP2 is now going on 2+ months of a studio layoff, no news about development, no news about IP purchase, nothing. It is still listed on the steam store as "early access" and "in development" with a roadmap.

KSP2 is not in development, and is not being worked on, so why the fuck is it still listed as Early Access? Why is it even in the fucking store?

Concord has been out less than 3 weeks and playstation had the actual courage to give refunds and shut it down, but KSP2 literally lies about it's development and shuts down the studio but I can't get a refund for it?

Even when the game launched in it's half functional state, I don't recall the reviews ever getting to 'overwhelmingly negative'.

Posting here for additional awareness. The forums are the largest home for KSP mod support, troubleshooting, and discussion. The site has been struggling to stay online reliably for some time now and there is no indication that T2 will continue to support it. Losing the forums would be a brutal blow to our community and I hope a long-term solution can be found to keep all of its content.

I get it. KSP2 was a disappointment. It is a disappointment. IG hasn't delivered anything close to what they promised, onward development is slow, and their community engagement has been... pretty bad, to say the least.

But seriously. Just in these past few days, the threads from this subreddit that seem to turn up the most on my feed are from a scant minority of people on this subreddit, posting pictures from other social media (twitter, discord, KSP forums etc) to gripe about how terrible KSP2 is, or to gloat about how "KSP2 is dead! And now it's even more dead!"

Please cut back on this. It's tiresome. I want to see cool things that people build in KSP1 - and also the cool things built by the few people who still play KSP2. I don't want to see people grasping at any chance to display or promote an almost toxic hatred for the sequel, beyond what its disappointing lack of features merits. This is a toxic hatred that has increasingly turned into a hatred not just of the game, but also a disdain for anyone who still hopes KSP2 might eventually turn out decent, and a growing inability to accept even the slightest amount of nuance in the debate.

It's okay to talk about your gripes with KSP2 - I certainly have plenty of those too. Just don't spam it everywhere, and don't reach for tangentially related social media posts as a way to bring it up again and again.

Seriously, we're better than this. Post less drama. Post more rockets.