I need to Rant a little ...
Disclaimer right from the start, I know I'm probably getting downvoted to hell but I don't care. I just need to Rant a little bit about the game because it really frustrates me. Plus english isn't my first language so I hope it's still readable.
Back when the game came out me and my friends loved the game so much! We played it everytime we would play together and it was always fun. Our groupchat was named after Phasmophobia and to this day there Is a little ghost in the name because of it. But after all this time the game completely lost me and most of my friends feel the same way.
First of all we are all casual Players. We don't study everyday ghost and it's special abilities like some of you do. We don't really do challenges, but we loved the seasonal events until the last two. And we don't follow the game on like discord and their Trello page. Maybe an unpopular opinion here but I don't think you should need to so that, just to see were development is going.
The game just got so repetitive it is tiring. You go in, you do the same stuff everytime until you got your checklist done and know the ghost. Maybe you do the extra Things but then you're out and do the next case. Nothing's exciting or even scary anymore. For ages people have asked for character customisation, still not there. New maps take so long to come out and in my opinion the last good one was the new asylum. Getting the new equipment is just a long, boring grind and the store is still confusing as hell. The last seasonal events were a big downgrade from the ones before. Things the devs have said would come are still not here, plus people who just have steam don't have any idea what's happening. If it weren't for one of my friends who still wants to play it, the game would be dead to us.
And what brought me to write this rant, is the last "News" on steam about a merch music box for 50 dollars. I'm sorry but that just feels so wrong after all this nothing we got, for this long time. I know there is always the "then don't play it" argument and yes that's true I'm just really disappointed. The game was so fun back then and it felt like something really promising, it's just sad. Maybe someone of the devs read this and gets some idea, why the comments on steam are so negative on their merch announcement.
So yeah that's my thoughts on the game right now, and again I don't want to hate I just wanted to get this of my chest, because I really used to love the game and have fond memories of it.