Recent reviews by Quadraphinx

R.I.P. The Ship
2004-2011
Left to die by Outerlight, straight up executed by Blazing Griffin.

I am one of the original 2006 players on my lost account, and it is still my first game with the most hours on this account. I still remember the day I picked it up at Target on a CD. My first steam game ever, and the only one on that old profile.

This game does not exist to Blazing Griffin. The Ship is still dead.
I have had hope for 12 YEARS, and I've been giving them the benefit of the doubt for 5 of them. Instead of holding to their promise and finishing Remasted, they made 3 other games. 3 whole games. Conceived, designed, modelled, programmed, compiled, and published, from blank window to full game. (Not to mention their film studio) Yet, they couldn't be bothered to open the Unity Editor for 5 seconds and fix bugs, let alone add all the missing features they promised. Unprofessional at best and manipulative at worse.

They clearly do not care about The Ship. They tricked a dying fanbase into funding their other products, and they're never coming back. The last update on The Ship: Remasted's status was AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THEIR NEXT GAME. They never returned. "Just wait, we're a small indie studio" their FAQ says, yet they've grown to like 5 times their original size since then. All started by the game and fans they 100% ignore.

Every single day all these years, on their Discord, on their Steam, on their Reddit, and probably the others too, people try and try and try to get TS:R to work, realize it's an abandoned mess, and then try their hardest to get the old Source servers working (with more success too!). Almost as if BG never even did anything. All they did is make sure a better studio will never actually make a new The Ship. Crickets chirp for their other games yet they continuously ignore the faint dying spark of The Ship.

I wanted to have hope of someday, they told us they were that someday back in 2011. Today's the day I stop waiting. I Do Not Recommend ANYTHING by Blazing Griffin. Maybe it's just The Ship today, but tomorrow it could be something YOU like. 5 years of patiently waiting and more chances than they deserved, and today is my final "maybe someday."

I thought about The Ship again today, then I realized todays date, and it dawned on me. It's not someday. The Ship is gone, thank you Blazing Griffin. I'm not getting burned again by another "We will, we will, we will, we will, oops sorry project cancelled." Your priorities are obvious. I funded your stupid company and you spat on us. If I could, I would refund this game and take every extra dollar you made with my dollars on other projects. Steam should have an abandonware refund option for devs like you that swindle people in the long run.

I don't normally rate games, but this brought it out of me. I feel it in my heart and I cannot ignore it like I have all these years. Blazing Griffin took our money and abandoned us like con artists. Just like the time BitLife purchased InstLife ONLY to discontinue it and shove BitLife down the other fans throats.
They said the same thing too,
"we're gonna fix up InstLife. Anyway, here's BitLife"
Liars. Just like Blazing Griffin.
"we're gonna fix up The Ship: Remasted. Anyway here's Murderous Pursuits instead."

Identical. Insidious. I give up. Nothing has changed. All the hope was false. I waited years for a version I could gift to all my friends. I would've happily been a walking billboard for this game, but there was never anything to share.

For my own sanity, I rip this bandaid off. The Ship isn't one of my favorite games anymore. The Ship doesn't exist. Hope you're happy you got the rights to say "Mr X" in another game and do nothing else with The Ship, because none of us are.