Civil Contract gets a one year checkup.
Civil Contract has been up on Steam for one year, so it’s about time for MMO Fallout to do our annual checkup. Civil Contract is a sandbox RPG set in the vast open fictional country of Australia. Developed by Capital Gaming RP Studios, Civil Contract hit a bit of controversy last year over their policy of silencing criticism, shutting down conversation on the Discord, and posting a fake positive review (which has resulted in other developers getting banned), and threatening critics.
MMO Fallout has also been promised a GDPR legal takedown order over our use of Capital Gaming CEO Tanner Rozankovic’s pseudonym Varius Benson in our reporting. We have so far not received any correspondence from a GDPR representative, but here’s another incident for the pile.
The last update for Civil Contract was on October 20, 2020. In terms of player base, Civil Contract is dead in the water. This is thanks in part to its high cost at $34.99, the initial unprofessionalism exhibited by the developers, and the poor state of content that the game launched in. Population numbers started out in the single digits and sunk. There is on average nobody playing. In short, very few people showed up for the launch and virtually nobody has stuck around to see how things are going. Considering the numbers, that means the developers aren’t even playing together on the live server.
I think it’s safe to say that the folks at Capital Gaming are still actively developing Civil Contract since the developers have been active this year on the game’s Discord. It’s also safe to say that the game has burned its first impression, as it now has 23 reviews of which only three are positive and the rest are rather scathing should anyone check them before buying.
In short, Civil Contract is a title you’ll want to avoid for now, and possibly forever. Unless you’re really keen on paying $35 for a solo spot on a social game that nobody plays.
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