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Recently, the domestic Xiuxian theme game "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" ushered in a wave of updates, who knows that after updating the live broadcast, the game was bombarded by bad reviews. The game's recent ratings on Steam have now become "mixed", in stark contrast to its previous overall ratings, "Special Reviews".
The reason for this wave of bad reviews is because "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" has made a "mod editor", and its own community function is obviously the "creative workshop" that the official promised to join before, for players to upload game mods.
All along, adding a creative workshop to the game is the focus of the "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" update plan, and it is also one of the updates that players are most looking forward to. But before this update, everyone thought that this workshop was referring to the workshop function on Steam.
More than half a year ago, the Workshop was an update plan, but at the time it was not specified that it was Steam's Workshop
Who knew that the game team of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" had developed a non-Steam creative workshop on its own. And this workshop also has a very strict review mechanism, which is completely different from Steam's relaxed review, as long as there is a little 18R in the mod, or other content that the game officially deems inappropriate, it will not pass.
In addition, the workshop's user agreement has also caused dissatisfaction among players, one of which indicates that the official has the right to verify, modify and delete the content uploaded by players without prior notice.
After all, some players in "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" are looking forward to the Workshop precisely because they hope to add a variety of content that is inconvenient for the official to join, but this review mechanism basically kills the expectations of this part of the players.
To make matters worse, the workshop is currently very difficult to use. After the player clicks on the Workshop in the game, they will enter a third-party website, but the process is very stuck. And according to the player's feedback, downloading the mod in the workshop also needs to add a group, and the workshop does not have its own mod installation function, and it is up to the player to install the mod into the game.
However, some players have expressed their preference for making mods with the editor
Not to mention, without steam's huge player base, the number of creators in the workshop is very small, and there are not many mods for the time being.
The combination of all of the above factors naturally annoys the player, so today all the discussion areas of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" are full of voices of dissatisfaction with this workshop.
As for why "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" wants to make such a creative workshop, there are many opinions. At present, the most accepted statement is because the game official has indicated that it wants to apply for a version number when the live broadcast is updated, so it is necessary to control the scale of the game. Once you start a workshop on Steam, this kind of control of scale is not so easy.
However, some players believe that the game is originally difficult to apply for a version number, after all, it is full of "sensitive" content such as double repair and tomb robbery. And domestic games such as "Bloodthirsty Seal" have also opened a creative workshop on Steam.
The same type of "Great Immortal Simulator" also has a creative workshop
For this group of players, this reason is obviously not convincing enough. In particular, they bought games on Steam, and it is really difficult to accept the use of version number problems to castrate the game experience of a large number of Steam version players. Not to mention that some of them may have bought games specifically for the Workshop.
The official of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" originally promised to open the function of the creative workshop, but at the last moment made a copycat version of the creative workshop, which is undoubtedly a "backstab" for players who are looking forward to the creative workshop. But the pot is not all on the official.
Although there has been no workshop, there are a lot of mods before the game
Because of the recent "interference" of Steam, players not only can't log in directly to the Workshop, but even the store page is difficult. Coupled with rumors, the review of game version numbers has increased, so that Chinese independent game developers must find a way to deal with these future unknowns.
In this case, it is indeed difficult for the official "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" to achieve the original promised workshop content, after all, when they made this promise, steam was not in the same state as it is now. And in addition to this generation of games, the official also has to consider the release of the sequel to "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds", in case the steam situation continues to deteriorate after that, the application for a version number is the only way.
Although this matter is quite angry for the player, it is really difficult and helpless to find a proper solution that takes care of both ends.
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