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The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines (forum.paradoxplaza.com)

submitted 5 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago

It's not just greedy, at this point it's blatant. The release itself was already bonkers, but they could have saved things by working hard on the base game and releasing additional free content. But this? How many "sowwy we fucked up, we promise to do better, buy our new 132 DLCs" will they pull before people stop giving them the benefit of the doubt?

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I'm not hopeful at all. If Bethesda or Blizzard are anything to go by, they can keep messing up big time for years, maybe decades to come and consumers will keep coming back, begging to be disappointed once more. You'll have more luck looking for alternatives out there in the ocean of indie games.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yep. It will never change As long as gamers continue to buy from shitty companies, the companies have no incentive to change in any direction but worse. Bethesda is a brilliant example of it, how every game is more simplistic and devoid, and more reliant on randomly generated content than the previous.

Ubisoft is another example, with the outright hostility, hatred and downright contempt they have towards their own customers.

and they are both still multi-billion dollar companies, cause idiots keep throwing them tons of money.

These updates from C:SL team mean nothing, cause they keep doing stupid shit despite of their sweet words. Like they did with trying to sell DLC for a broken game. Their actions and focus speak far louder than any of their honeyed words.

[-] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

I am actually planning on not buying anything more from paradox if they fuck up the launch of eu5, only dlc from current games (if they're worth it/required)

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Dlc should never feel required

[-] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

But it does, sadly.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

This is why I stopped buying Paradox games and just pirate them if I'm curious. No way I'm getting trapped in a fomo cycle everytime they release a minor feature for $5.