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TonyHawksPoTater, 8 miesięcy temu w Cities: Skylines 2 dev says they were "caught off guard" by the success of the original city-builder after it sold 40 times more than their expectations

Is it that surprising? I feel like nobody else was doing well made, high-profile city management games around that time. SimCity 2013's failure left a time-tested genre without any real big name contenders. Unless they really didn't try, it was a success waiting to happen.

JakenVeina, 8 miesięcy temu w Cities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker"

Let’s be clear, though: developers did not make this decision. Managers and publishers did.

ampersandrew, 8 miesięcy temu

Those managers and publishers were likely looking at their burn rate and needed to get some funding to come in to keep the studio afloat. It's tough out there for games right now.

ripcord, 8 miesięcy temu

That's...a pretty big, pure guess there.

ampersandrew, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Not really. If they could afford to release it after optimizations, they would.

ripcord, 8 miesięcy temu

There is so much evidence of companies not doing the opposite, it seems like a really big assumption.

Computerchairgeneral, 8 miesięcy temu w Cities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker"

I get their argument that a city builder may not need high frame rates, but the 5-10 fps people have been reporting doesn't seem ideal either. The management definitely should have given the devs time to work out these issues, but I'd imagine the profits they made from going ahead with the launch will outweigh any criticisms.

SharkAttak, 8 miesięcy temu w Report: Awful King Kong Game Was Made In A Year By Overworked Devs

Decades later, and the lesson of E.T. for Atari has yet to be learned.

Benign, 8 miesięcy temu w Squash all those irritating Starfield bugs with this essential community patch mod

"the minor bugs and issues that Bethesda hasn’t quite gotten to yet". I don't know any of those, I only know the ones they will willfully ignore for eternity 🙄

Good job, community patch people, saviours of Bethesda games.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I only know the ones they will willfully ignore for eternity

And why would Microsoft fix those when their paying customers even work for free?

SharkAttak, 8 miesięcy temu

Exactly, and why are voluntary devs better than paid ones?

Andjhostet, 8 miesięcy temu w Cities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker"

I think they underestimated how dramatic this community can be. Which is surprising considering the map size whining that happened.

Jaysyn, 8 miesięcy temu w Cities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker"

It is for me.

dumdum666, 8 miesięcy temu w Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign is “feature complete” after 11 years

So after another short period of about ten years it will be released…

blazera, 8 miesięcy temu w Twitch now allows simulcasting to other platforms

Ah nevermind, twitch partners still arent allowed to

smallaubergine, 8 miesięcy temu

How do they know? Do they monitor your YouTube account if you have a twitch account?

WHYAREWEALLCAPS, 8 miesięcy temu w Whoa, Alan Wake II’s PC Requirements Aren’t Screwing Around

Not worried. Being an Epic exclusive, I have zero interest in playing this game.

ampersandrew, 8 miesięcy temu w Twitch now allows simulcasting to other platforms

Which means I'll always watch on YouTube. Being able to pause, rewind, and play back at 1.25x speed to catch back up is such a critical feature that every other streaming site needs, but Twitch's exclusivity has made it difficult for streamers to utilize. Unfortunately, discovery on YouTube is horrendous, so maybe I find a streamer on Twitch and then watch on YouTube.

thingsiplay, 9 miesięcy temu w Nintendo sold a single new Wii U in the US this year

Amazing that they even write an entire article, because a Wii U was sold. I had to check the date if this is April Fool's day. It's a retro console and maybe they wanted save it. Or want to download roms to play for free on it (as the shop is not supported anymore) for authentic experience, instead emulating it. It was probably very cheap too.

Pratai, 8 miesięcy temu w Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign is “feature complete” after 11 years

ROFL!

MJBrune, 8 miesięcy temu w Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign is “feature complete” after 11 years

feature complete just means they’ve truly entered a “beta” phase. They’ve made it through production, features have been completed and now the real work can begin on designers tweaking settings and balancing the game for the next year and a half.

EvilMonkeySlayer, 9 miesięcy temu w Epic Launches Program to Pay Devs to Bring Old Games to Epic Games Store - IGN

Rather than paying devs for old or new games perhaps Epic could put that money into making their launcher/store good?

The Epic launcher is intensely slow, I've got a 13700k, 32GB RAM, RTX 4080, stupid fast nvme SSD etc. Everything on it should be instant, why does it take ages just to load my library? Why can I not select the library to display by default?

Why is the interface so slow and horrible? Where are all the features of its competitor steam?

Why after all these years has it not seen any real improvement at all?

wolfshadowheart, 8 miesięcy temu

Does Epic allow you to set your homepage to your library yet? Or does it still unnecessarily keep you to their store or some other useless page?

EvilMonkeySlayer, 8 miesięcy temu

Nope, it stills drops you straight to the store.