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Question of the Week (4/13/25 - 4/19/25): Have any developers of a Roblox game you play (or used to play) made decisions that leaves you disappointed?
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A: Most easily,
and recently,
Do Big Studios, once they acquired
Fisch.
I started playing since December during the Winter Spotlight, and had fun with it for a while since, even if progressing could get painfully grindy-- All while having no idea that Do Big had acquired the game a month prior. At first, their methods to monetize Fisch wasn't anything that would affect the base game itself
too directly, since any game on Roblox with a big traction of audience could usually mean more work to do, and more money to earn for covering costs. But my initial assumptions shattered when annoying pop-up ads in-game happen whenever a fishing rod gets a skin that costs Robux, and with NO way to disable it in the menu. Don't get me started on boat bundles that come with server luck either, as some fish are now nigh impossible to get unless you spend your money on server luck boosts.
While I know it took people updates earlier than the whale migration update for me to realize that they would ruin Fisch like
many other games they bought
(cough cough blade ball and a dusty trip cough), the fact that they were basically fixing what wasn't broken (i.e significantly lowering effect percentage of both the Steady and Blessed Song enchantments, locking a VERY specific enchant relic that provides the latter enchantment, which back then would have 80% chances of
failing to enchant any fishing rod) was enough for me to leave almost every official Discord server. Almost, because exploitation has become rampant-- More so on public servers. And naturally, I would send report tickets to the game's support server.
Much to my dismay, I found out that my reports were rarely, if ever looked at. I upload video evidence on YouTube and I know something is at the VERY LEAST being acknowledged if it gets viewed, because these are uploaded for support moderators to investigate, and act accordingly).
Now I get that being overwhelmed and stressed out may happen if you're part of support staff (bonus points for being understaffed, because oh boy) and you see TONS of reports on people abusing the thing you help moderate with cheating of all things
in a fishing simulation game, but I feel like all of this would have been
PREVENTABLE if anti-cheat measures were implemented in the first place. Surely that can also be improved if first time implementation has flaws, but no-- It seems as if higher-ups at Do Big Studios do not care if their playerbase suffers from people who can't be bothered to play fair, but are likely implicit in allowing it to happen.
To make matters worse, some people in Fisch's Content Creator Program are getting varying degrees of mistreatment-- One of which a former member stated that they weren't even allowed to upload videos on any game update prior to them going live, but those outside of it could do so freely.
There had even been cases where a couple members had been falsely removed from said program, and banned from the game's main Discord server for the pettiest of reasons-- All while a notorious scammer with ongoing criminal allegations is STILL part of it.
Here's a video of another former Fisch content creator, who became a victim to a false ban from the official server(s).
It is both saddening and blood-boiling since I still play Fisch to take a break from the more action-oriented Roblox games-- And given game mechanics I can understand and use well, am quite the completionist nut. I also decided to give a bit of support for it by purchasing a double XP game pass before knowing of controversies plaguing the game. Knowing the fate of games under Do Big's management, however, I refuse to spend anymore Robux on it, and I plan to quit-- Either around the time I get the Seraphic Rod, if I reach current max level (2500), or when I have acquired all main fishing rods.
And while I'm at it, I'd like to let you all know that
Beaks, an upcoming game from former devs of Fisch will be released on the 18th.
Watch the trailer here.
