but hey at least we got more of the useless out of bounds dogshit!

Damn, if only you had the ability to play a previous version that didn't have giant BROKEN and UNSTABLE on the download... OH WAIT!

Hyperbole. Have patience. They're working on fixing all of these. Don't be an asshole. Y'know most people know this.

This game ain't your life you can just not play for a bit.

Calling attention to bugs is fine but the moment you start being an ass you shouldn't get to ever play anything again.

Basically... grow up.

dude. Calm the hell down. Its called a BROKEN version for testers for a reason. Its gonna have bugs. Heck, im a brand new player and the different controls absolutely INFURIATE ME (multiple actions on one key press is one of the dumbest design decisions I've ever seen) but even i think your being pretty unfair.

May want to curb this entitlement. It's a free game that has the words "BROKEN" and "UNSTABLE" and "FOR TESTERS" on it for a reason, yet here you are, blatantly ignoring all the warning signs and crying on the forums like a petulant child. You test a game by testing it, not just casually playing it you dimwit. You don't treat this as a game to just be played, and I see you using this as an excuse, which is stupid bullshit. THIS kind of shit is why the devs have to put words in all caps all over the file name, to deter knuckle-draggers like you. 

You figuratively walked into a lake with "no swimming" signs everywhere and are whining and throwing a tantrum because you got wet. At this point you seem so inept I would say don't bother helping with bugtesting, you probably wouldn't be able to provide anything of value anyway. Did you submit any bugs reports at all? Did you tell them any of this in an official bug report or take a look at the publicly available Google doc with reported bugs? Or did you just feel like crying on the itch.io forums instead of doing something constructive? I suggest going back to the stable version and wait for 0.9.0 to release fully. People like you piss me off and only serve to show the developers that their community is full of fucking retards. Get bent.

he probably mad because there is bugs that was fixed, and then decided its playable, so put several hours into save file he was playing, and then he saw those gamebreaking bugs, and like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I mean, when i saw coffee cost, i was like: "Damh, i guess ai companies drank all coffee, and now there is coffee crisis". Is this even a bug?

*Walks in* the hell is going on here

Download VOTV launcher from the "Game Page"
download and install then open
From there you can go to install > Select Version > 0.9.0_0015_1 and maybe some of those problems go away.
You lose some things, but you get to use the coffee machine!

I get the frustration, but the point of the playtest is to find problems and will be issues.
The fact that there are problems is like complaining that the rain makes you wet.

After you DOWNLOADED the BROKEN and UNSTABLE you come here and post about---->"but Jesus H. Christ this is WAY BEYOND A BIT BROKEN." let mrdrnose cook, don't backseat drive the dev for this. Grow tf up

It’s truly beautiful to see testers deliberately seek out and play a version clearly labeled “potentially BROKEN and UNSTABLE shadow TEST for TESTING”, only to get angry and shout “I hate this version!” instead of providing the developers with constructive feedback about newly added features or bugs. And when I see comments saying “You can’t defend this just by saying it’s ‘in development’!”, I honestly don’t even know what to say anymore, lol.

This game hasn’t been officially released or sold yet, and you, me — all of us — are testers. There’s absolutely no reason to get angry. If you care about VOTV, gather the things you don’t like and send feedback to the dev. And if, even after that, you still don’t like the direction the updates are taking… well, what can you do? You can simply stop playing the game.

I think it's fair to be upset if things are broken and to point out that they are broken, but there's no reason to be rude about it.  The only thing you are spending is your own time here. You did not pay money for this. These problems do need to be fixed, and undoubtedly will be. To be honest, I found Voices of the Void through Joel and hearing him mention that 0.9.0 was due out for Halloween brought me here wondering what happened to it.

At least as far as Itch.io is concerned, 0.8.2 is still the most current release. You have to go digging a bit to find any version of 0.9.0, and it's pretty clearly marked as an alpha. What, do you expect to get a refund? On what? The time you chose to spend? 

If it's busted, wait until it gets fixed. If it never gets fixed, do you think a tantrum is going to spur anyone into action on your behalf? Who are you, even? 

Let me be that person on the OP's side of the barricades and say what some of us want to say but filter themselves out because they don't want to sound too rude/cynical/entitled and receive a ton of downvotes.

I'm frustrated that I've been waiting for 0.9.0 to finally release, starved for content, and, after receiving a promise of a Halloween release to enjoy the creepy vibes in a project I love, I still have to stop myself each time my mouse pointer hovers over the download button, still waiting for the stable version to be released. The only option to experience the game is by playing the old 0.8.2c build, a build I already know from inside out, tauntingly sitting next to 0.9.0 with a promise of fresh content to experience, and letting my interest and hope in the whole game continue dropping further down every week I check VotV's page.

I'm frustrated that the developer earns whopping $300.000 a year, minimum, excluding the merch and other revenue sources, and all he managed to muster for $175.000 (it's been 7 months since 0.8.2c) while developing an indie game is some new assets, events, graphical tweaks, 2 times the amount of bugs, and introduced the performance drop even further to the point the lighting system makes no sense to enjoy due to the framerate hit. Depending on the place he's living in, a whole studio can be opened on this budget, not 2 and a half people involved in the project, memeing on X about a new tower, an unprofessionally messy Unreal Engine blueprint, or whatever. Yes, I'm calling out the developer for something that is a major issue in Patreon-supported games, yet somehow is straight-up forbidden to discuss in every community, except probably Yandere Dev's. The development of this game is powered purely by the community that received a promise of an awesome experience, and as a member of this community, you should call him out too, because these resources are coming to him from your wallet. If that sum isn't respected, maybe he should just accept a publisher's offer and be pressured to continue developing the game using corporate money with a dedicated accountant micromanaging every penny of his spendings on a much less relaxed schedule if he can't properly allocate the donations.

I'm frustrated that the developer is highly selective in his choices of how to interact with the community. They're never responding to the bug reports on itch.io, making that thread look long forgotten, preferring the comfort of his Discord server where things seemingly already escalated up to the point of a personality cult. I, as a member of itch.io's community, wanted to be a part of the game's development, presenting my input for everyone's benefit, but my shouts to revert the controls or introduce the old layout as an option for those who can't digest the new controls are directed into nothing, as if this part of the community doesn't even exist.

I'm frustrated that there's no transparency, and, coming from the point above, a lackluster community management. We have a couple (?) of changelogs. We maybe receive one meme per month on X. And that's about it. When a release window is given, it's certainly to be taken with a cup of salt after the 0.9.0's fiasco. I have to hunt for information on their Discord server, trying to make sense who's who, trying to build an internal chain of thought to an answer if it's even worth waiting a couple of more days/weeks/months until the stable release, or the stable release isn't coming and I should just stop waiting and enjoy the current build... Only to hear yet another "shut up bro can't you see it's a shadowy test" from another member practicing toxic positivity every time I'd go to report some issue or criticize the testing build which is logically expected to receive such feedback. We don't know if the stable 0.9.0 is even in the works or if the developer has completely switched to 0.9.1 now, which may or may not also come out as an unstable release and repeat the cycle.

Please take a fresh look at this project, because at this rate, we're not going to get that amazing game we genuinely wish VotV to be.