I backed this game in its Alpha - and had a lot of fun, and continued to have fun for quite awhile. But each major update was less and less of something to look forward to, with the real things players wanted like more raid locations, better AI behaviour, more bosses, more reason to actually spend money on and keep ships, fixing player spawns in raid locations to combat spawn camping, and a slew of other things that the community asked for since the beginning. Updates took way too long, with not enough content imo to justify the waiting.

For an example: They just released the "biggest" update theyve ever done - new maps, raids, ships, bosses, AI, etc.

Its been 2 months now I think - the playerbase went from 120 people to 800 people for a week, and then back to 120-200. Because it took almost an entire year to come, and barely changed anything about playstyle, meta, etc. so players immediately got bored with it, and abandoned it. Right now, its literally the same 100-200 people every single day playing this game, and they all have the best loot, the best ships, etc.

They havent even released a single hot fix in almost two months for the "biggest update" theyve ever released.

If youre thinking about buying this game - DONT.

The game is dead, has been for almost 2 years
The devs are horrible at responding properly to community feedback - you wouldnt believe how many people were in the discord trying to talk about their disappointment with the update, and devs, mods, and admins were actively insulting people, watching as other discord members were using slurs and telling people to kill themselves, muting people with criticisms and not people actively wishing death on others. It was honestly crazy to see as someone whose been there since the beginning - devs really flipped a coin, or just hid who they were.

Regardless as is, the game is dead, the devs seem to have lost all competence, and Marauders has become and online club for the very few people who still play it, and I absolutely guarantee you the servers will be shut down before the end of 2025. If "the biggest update weve ever done" couldnt even get your game over 1k players, your game is doomed, without a doubt.

ok so to start of this game is good and yes it isnt the most active however i feel like if the game was more active and had some type of gear pool with gear caps it will be great again

cant recommend a game that gives favor to cheaters