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The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TL;DR:

  • They apologized (again)

  • They will refund everyone who bought the beach DLC and make it a free addition to the game, admitting it was tasteless that they made paid DLC when the game is in a broken state

  • They will focus on base changes and better modding tools before starting to make more DLC (previously announced DLC has been delayed to 2025)

  • Console release delayed

Honestly, this is a good update. It's everything we wanted to hear. Looking forward to buying the game when it gets fixed.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

idk if this is a stupid opinion but I feel like us, the consumers are to blame. If everyone just waited a week and read reviews before buying games then publishers wouldn't be able to get away with this shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I always felt the $60 price tag for games (now $70+ for AAA titles!) was way too much, so I usually wait about a year or more, then buy it on sale.

So I get to sit back and watch the shitshow when people pre-order games and then get screwed when the game is garbage.

Dragon's Dogma II was super hyped up recently, and even I got the free character customization demo to pre-build a character. Then it announced day-one microtransactions the day before release and pissed off the gaming community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, the consumers are never to blame for stuff like this!

This is something that is just that we get told by the people that are lying about and hyping up a product, putting up manipulative incentives for buying it before letting us inspect it. Then releasing trash, but still appealing on our empathic nature and promising that it might get fixed later. And when things turn to shit, then it is our trust and empathy, willingness to support them, that is to blame for it. No!

If the industry exploits our good and trusting nature, then we need to fight them with regulation and laws. Our civilization and the human nature is built on trust, and that should not be undermined by short profit oriented, exploitative companies or business practices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do wait, and the publishers don't get away with selling me unfinished games. It's great.

I wait at least a month for any game, 8 months for a Bethesda game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I waited a year for cyberpunk, until everyone was saying it was all fixed, and I hated all the bugs and some bad design decisions. Nothing major, but it felt like death of a thousand cuts.

I shudder to imagine how that game looked at release that this feels like a polished product to people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hah, yeah I also played cyberpunk quite recently. I really liked it for the most part, I'm considering playing it again with a totally different build.

Yeah, I saw some early gameplay videos from cyberpunk... I think it has indeed come a very long way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't say I didn't like it. Quite the opposite, but for a supposedly fixed game, there were still too many annoyances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's preorders. Stop preordering, and either the products will improve or studios will collapse.