Dune: Awakening players are reporting that some of their items are going missing, and the development team has acknowledged the problem by suggesting an unconventional and not very player-friendly bug fix. The popularity of Dune: Awakening has been falling in recent days, and the development team at Funcom's latest bit of advice might not win back the players it's been losing.
Launching on PC on June 10, Dune: Awakening got off to a strong start on Steam, with opening-week concurrent player counts rising above 189,000. Good early impressions of the sci-fi survival game have had an impact, as the game's all-time user reviews on Steam put it into the "Mostly Positive" category, with 74 percent player approval. But several developments in the last several weeks have had many opinions souring, with only 56 percent of reviews within the last 30 days being positive and the highest player spike in the last week peaking at less than 37,000 players.
One of the latest problems, reported after the game's scheduled August 13 update, is a resource bug that's causing players' items in Dune: Awakening to disappear from their inventories. Specifically, this bug seems to be going into effect...
