Originally posted by Nevermore:

Hello folks! We are Rust and 7D2D vets, looking for new challenges, should we buy this game? While going through -ve reviews, came across lots of people saying that devs abandoned the game after EA, no major updates as if they got the hype cash and then run away. Not going to invest our time into a game with no future. Thanks in advance.

1. If you had done a more proper due diligence, you'd see devs have not abandoned it and have been progressing with their development. Patch/update notes alone would show you this. Vids by devs and interviews by others of devs, responses on threads here by devs(its only a 10 person team btw) would've told you this too. They've been posting news updates on mistlands pretty regularly on steam and their twitter account too.

There are also players who put out lots of videos regularly playing the game(Jiroc the viking is a good example who has done interviews of devs in the last month or so too).

So no. It isn't abandoned.

2. We had a major update at the start of the fall (hearth n home) and another a couple of months ago (ice caves). Team has specified that major updates take 6-9 months.

3. Given your game listing and implied through that expectations, I can't help but feel you expect a finished game that can hold your attention with tons and tons and tons of content for you and your friends and or heavy pvp.

Its really just not that kind of game. While there are people who play on servers, arguably most do not.

If you ground your expectations perhaps more and watch some lets play videos of the game and it appeals to your group then have at it.

But all in all its a decision you have to make subjectively.