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clearleaf, do games w Cities Skylines 2 dev stuck to launch date despite “potential kicking”

They should have called it early access then it could have been a jpeg of the blender default cube and nobody would care

Ffkhrocks, do games w Cities Skylines 2 dev stuck to launch date despite “potential kicking”

‘Despite the technical problems outlined in our own review of Cities Skylines 2, Colossal Order says the game is “ready enough to be released.”’

Next time they’re at a restaurant someone should bring them undercooked chicken that looks done on the outside but is raw in the center. When they complain? “The chicken was ready enough to serve”

Rubanski,

A better comparison would be a raw steak when the customer asked for medium well.

glimse,

Quite the hyperbolic comparison you’ve got there

CynicRaven,

Hey dude, Colossal Order and Paradox gave them salmonella, how could you be so callous!

chunkystyles,

Imperfect game is as bad as potentially fatal food poisoning, obviously.

NAS89,

my dad died from playing Cyberpunk on release RIP in peace

Montagge,
@Montagge@kbin.social avatar

Hey guys the chicken is going to be undercooked depending on your tableware so don't order it yet if you think your chicken will end up undercooked.
I'M GONNA ORDER THE CHICKEN! WHY IS THIS CHICKEN UNDERCOOKED? WHY WASN'T I WARNED?

echodot,

It’s not quite the same thing though is it.

It’s a bit like developing a microwave meal and it turns out that it only really cooks in 2 minutes if you have an ultra powerful microwave then putting out a press release that says I know it says it’ll cook in 2 minutes on the packaging but unless you have a really powerful microwave add a few minutes to it.

The responsibility is still on the players to have reasonable expectations of the game depending on the hardware that they have.

Also it’s 100% my fault for pre-ordering the damn thing, I don’t know why I did that. But that’s on me because if I really wanted to I could have refunded it.

bekopharm, do gaming w Starfield remake created in two days actually lets you fly seamlessly from space to the surface
@bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I know, late for the party. Know what else has “seamless” flying from space to surface?

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/e12f4362-1800-408a-b5ef-ff5c25f87f29.jpeg

This tiny FOSS game here nobody heard of before: Pioneer Space Sim

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/64016963-7a86-419a-937a-7e80126fd447.jpeg

Yes it is nowhere state of the art in looks but considering it’s very slow development from what’s mostly a one dev show I find that a lot more impressive.

Also yay for orbital mechanics.

simple, do gaming w 2022’s best indie game hits 200,000 Steam reviews at 98% positive, and it’s on sale

Is pcgamer allergic to putting the game name in titles? It’s Vampire Survivors.

Auzy,

Yeah. Let’s not turn into reddit or Murdoch media and click bait everything

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

Thanks, for a second, I thought we were talking about Patrick's Parabox, 2022's best indie game.

Vordus,

Not Trombone Champ, 2022’s best indie game?

TallonMetroid,
@TallonMetroid@lemmy.world avatar

If they tell you the game in the title you have no incentive to click.

Jorgelino,

Problem is that’s literally the only bit of relevant information that’s not already in the title.

This article has no purpose other than holding this one word hostage until you click it.

Black616Angel, (edited ) do gaming w Steam indie hit goes against industry trends, removes all monetization

Yeah that’s right! Games like stardew valley, factorio, Terraria, Binding of Isaac, Hades and others could really learn from those brave heroes and finally remove the Battle pass and all the other payed content!

Edit: /s… Duh!

tuskytiger,

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  • FriendlyBeagleDog,

    Those titles don’t, the person you’re responding to is being sarcastic because the article sorta implies that removing the microtransactions from an indie title is somehow novel.

    WhyAUsername_1,

    Hades had battle pass?

    Tau,

    That’s the joke

    WhyAUsername_1,

    I feel like an idiot… c/woosh I guess, to myself… 😂😂

    shift_four,

    No, none of these did. That’s the joke.

    Destraight, do gaming w Steam indie hit goes against industry trends, removes all monetization

    A game that I never heard of is removing their battle pass, and monetization options. Ok?

    DigitalPaperTrail, do gaming w Steam indie hit goes against industry trends, removes all monetization

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  • optissima,

    They disabled it so they can implement it in 2 years. !remindme 2 years

    FireTower, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.
    @FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

    Maybe I’m off base, but does anyone really want a game about fighting vampires? Cyberpunk (the genre) is incredibly popular, vampire stuff seems to be pretty much relegated to the background in fantasy RPGs especially when compared to say zombie games.

    RightHandOfIkaros, do gaming w Steam indie hit goes against industry trends, removes all monetization

    The bigger problem is that this game even had a battle pass and other monetization tactics at all.

    Early Access games should never have a battle pass or cash item shop.

    JoshBadWriter,
    @JoshBadWriter@mastodon.social avatar

    @RightHandOfIkaros @ylai Yeah, that article has the wrong takeaway from this.

    The devs aren't heroes for removing the F2P elements. They never should have been there to begin with.

    520,

    True, but a lot of people never listen to the fact that they fucked up and they should do something about it. That fact alone deserves some kudos.

    pory,
    @pory@lemmy.world avatar

    Early Access games should never have a battle pass or cash item shop.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Yes, but especially Early Access games.

    raydenuni, (edited ) do gaming w Steam indie hit goes against industry trends, removes all monetization

    Good change, obviously. Monetizing cosmetics in this game has always struck me as odd. The game’s not ugly, but it’s not pretty enough to sell skins in my opinion.

    If anyone’s curious about the gameplay, Monster Train is a favorite deck builder of mine and Inkbound topped my list of games I was excited about. It exceeded my hopes and expectations and I can’t think of anything else in the co-op space that comes close to the level of coordination and build variety found here. Great 1p as well and it’s progressing beautifully in early access with some excellent redesigns on various systems and new classes.

    avater, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.
    @avater@lemmy.world avatar

    even Fallout 76 is now a decent game so why not…

    Pixelle3D,

    FO76 is great now.

    Nutteman, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.
    @Nutteman@lemmy.world avatar

    Arcane’s studios are no longer the same ones that brought us dishonored unfortunately and I don’t think it is gonna get better any time soon. Really hope I’m wrong there was a time where Arcane was my favorite people making games.

    BananaTrifleViolin,

    I think this is the real problem with the gaming industry. Development studios are treated as if they're sources of IP when in fact it's more about the people working for them.

    A good dev team is the people who made the games. A team gets bought out by a big publishing giant and it seems they inevitably lose the people who made them great.

    That's not to say big publsiher owned studios can't make great games but I'd argue the best games are coming from the indy studies whether that by one man bands like ConcernedApe or big independent studios like CD Projekt Red.

    Also CD Projekt Red was highly motivated to fix Cyberpunk as it's a smaller studio, and pretty much their entire future business needed it to be fixed and work. They need and want to make more Cyberpunk games. Microsoft has zero motivation to fix Redfall - it was a commercial failure in a big coroportation; they will just dump it and move on but also be more averse to trying to make new IP.

    Nutteman,
    @Nutteman@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s definitely due to the industry. Turnover is insane and it’d not the employees faults

    PoetSII, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.

    I mean, cyberpunk had issues at launch but at its core it was an excellently written game in a vibrant world with phenomenal NPC performances and fun combat. It was worth spending the time and effort to fix up.

    Redfall has none of that, from everything I’ve seen. Sometimes you need to release and move on.

    OrgunDonor,

    Cyberpunk was fundamentally a good game at launch, but needed cleaning and tidying(if you ignore the last gen consoles, it was terrible and should never have come out on them). Redfall is fundamentally bad, it doesnt need a spit and polish, this needs a meteor.

    The title should read "Redfall can be the next Final Fantasy XIV, if Microsoft wants it to be.", Nuke it from orbit, and release a basically new game. Except Redfall doesn't have the long standing francise name attached to it.

    DigitalPaperTrail, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.

    title has strong "this could be us" vibes

    Brunbrun6766, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.
    @Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

    Hmmm no

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