What would happen if DST never happen?

[JoeW]

On 4/29/2022 at 10:47 AM, sudoku said:

Probably 2+ more singleplayer expansions.

Excuse me while i cry now.

You got two more. We originally were gonna done with DS after Reign of Giants. We were finishing up Reign Of Giants before we hired on new people to explore multiplayer and we enlisted help from Capy to work on Shipwrecked because we were moving on to other things. If anything, Hamlet only exists because of DST and we probably would have stopped at RoG. 

[Notecja]

1 minute ago, JoeW said:

You got two more. We originally were gonna done with DS after Reign of Giants. We were finishing up Reign Of Giants before we hired on new people to explore multiplayer and we enlisted help from Capy to work on Shipwrecked because we were moving on to other things. If anything, Hamlet only exists because of DST and we probably would have stopped at RoG. 

Probably you would get less noisy forum areas... 

[Aeglefire]

2 minutes ago, JoeW said:

we probably would have stopped at RoG

That is a yikes.

[Maxil20]

6 minutes ago, JoeW said:

If anything, Hamlet only exists because of DST and we probably would have stopped at RoG. 

Apologies pinging you to ask a bit of an unrelated question, but was Hamlet part of the “side projects” that were done after A New Reign was finished? I remember the team mainly worked on Forge/Gorge because they wanted to work on more unique ideas before returning to the base formula of DST, and I was always wondering if Hamlet was also one of those avenues they took as well. 

[JoeW]

1 minute ago, Maxil20 said:

Apologies pinging you to ask a bit of an unrelated question, but was Hamlet part of the “side projects” that were done after A New Reign was finished? I remember the team mainly worked on Forge/Gorge because they wanted to work on more unique ideas before returning to the base formula of DST, and I was always wondering if Hamlet was also one of those avenues they took as well. 

Nope, Hamlet came from ideas that the team came up with while finishing Shipwrecked. Some of the artists had worked on DST, but none of the programmers/designers. 

[Castiliano]

14 hours ago, JoeW said:

Nope, Hamlet came from ideas that the team came up with while finishing Shipwrecked. Some of the artists had worked on DST, but none of the programmers/designers. 

Hey Joe, maybe I'm concluding wrong, but it seems that Klei already sees the solo DS as a finished game at this point and I understand perfectly, but I would like to ask for the possibility of a great QoL update that contained the best improvements for together in recent years. This would make the game feel less dated and more current. in my opinion. Maybe because I'm a more assiduous multiplayer player, but whenever I go back to the solo game I feel like I'm in a museum "Oh, so it was like that before, I'm glad that changed!", from basic controls like dropping items on the ground with SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK, even some major modifications would be very awesome.