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Welp, here is my first review of a game ever. Time to give my honest opinion on The Isle. This will be less of a review and more of a rant on this community and developers.


Gameplay

The game, at this point, has two gamemodes: Sandbox and Progression.
In Sandbox, you pick any animal and play. This gamemode is simple, good, and efficient.
However, Progression is rather crap. Progression works on a basis of points and two "tech trees"; a carnivore and a herbivore one. You gain points by surviving, one per minute. This arises quite a few problems. You can hide in a bush and stay there, only gettting up for food and water. This makes the game just a waiting and almost stationary experience, as you wait 2 hours for a broken carcharodontosaur with a hitbox in its arse! In fact, Acrocanthosaurus has the same stats as Allosaurus, and they still put this broken animal in the game for an extreme minority of players which have to wait 2 hours for this broken mess! In fact, Acrocanthosaurus is part of a bigger plan I'll outline later.

Community

Is the community bad? Well, I'd say it's pretty evenly split. I have noticed 3 main groups of players. These are:

-the Awesomebros: Their temperament is extremely agressive, often KoSing once they spot a target. They are usually 6-8 year old children. Speech is usually broken. This species' mains vary, most using any variant of Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops or Allosaurus.

-the Carebears aka "XDDDDDDD" types: Temperament is usually calm, but they are quickly triggered into a blinding rage if they or their comapnions are attacked. These people usually approach other "XDDDDDD" types, to carebear them or be themselves carebeared. Speech usually has copious amounts of emoticons randomly scattered throught usually broken text. Their age range is huge, but a good portion are in their early teens, 12-14 years old. The "XDDDDD" types play almost any animal, favorites for carebears being Tyrannosaurus, Shantungosaurus and Triceratops and the ultimate favorite of the carebeared is the Dryosaurus, who spam the help call, which usually ends in the attacker getting his ass whopped by a carebear. Carebears also likely have a small dinosaur OC of which they post pictures on DeviantART.

-the Palaeofans: A group which I am a part of, and this might mean I have a biased view on this group. Temperament is usually calm, collected and strategic. These people only kill for food or for territory, sometimes even enjoying the company of genera that otherwise they would be mortal enemies with. Usually are extinct on public servers and form 100% of the population in realism servers. Age range varies extremely, and I have no idea who are the majority. The variation in mains is absolutely insane.


Developers

Here comes the extremely juicy part. What do I think of the main developers? They rule like dictators above us.
Dondi for example, could be comparable to a tsar, considering himself above us "serfs" and "peasantry". Speaking of Dondi, he is a very arrogant man which does not know how to run a community, constantly mocking us for giving him suggestions. At one point, in April, when the Utahraptor's disease-ridden model was revealed to the world, a great outrage happened, me taking part in it, because of how inaccurate it was. Then, the man snapped and created a secret police made up of moderators, (which I like to compare to the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire) which silences any opposition.

Dondi is extremely bad at being a buisnessman or a community manager. He has proven this on two occasions:
-the aforementioned one, where he alienated a great part of the fanbase, the palaeofans; which had build up the game and spread its publicity; by suddenly declaring that the team does not care about accuracy. This crushed support for the game in many circles, including a great promotor, palaeo-Tumblr. The devs lied to us, as we thought we were getting an accurate product.
-removing sandbox. Sandbox is scheduled to be removed, leaving us a depraved waiting simulator for a game, until Progression exits Alpha.

Deathly is again, as bad as Dondi, personally conducting an attack on a server with no KoSing which was about relaxing, Chill Lounge with about 60 people that were to KoS. This attack crushed the server, which only had one moderator at the time, leaving it ravaged.
The devs are scum.

Our Recent Playing By The Devs

The two most recent animals, Utahraptor and Acrocanthosaurus are progression only. This is obviously a ploy to make people abandon the actual good game for the depraved waiting simulator because of natural human curiosity. These devs are obviously not looking to make a good game in which both the customer and the producer are satisfied. In fact, the decisions they have made are so poor, I'm not sure if they even want to make good money. I would not be surprised if this was a cash-grab, like its father, TSL.

Final Verdict

The game is mediocre at best, and it does not seem to be improving. In fact, it seems to be going a dark path.
Can it be saved? Most certainly not, given that the main devs are some of the worst devs I have seen in my whole life. This game is likely doomed.

2/10.

Another game I love goes down the drain....