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Cities Skylines 2: "Beach properties assets are all gone and my city is screwed. Thanks a lot." (forum.paradoxplaza.com)

submitted 7 months ago by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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It doesn't stop. It just never stops.

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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

God, how can someone be so blind?

But this was such an edge case, removing assets resulting in the unavailability of said assets in game, that this interruption simply couldn't have been for foreseen.

They couldn't foresee issues created by removing assets, in a game that is supposed to support user mods, which can be added/removed at any time? Really?

The explanation I've seen is that they wanted to pull the DLC as soon as possible, since it was - literally - the worst-rated product on Steam. I'm 99% sure the bean counters responsible for all of the terrible decisions (release the game, no matter what state! Release the DLC, no matter the amount of content!) pulled the lever on this one again - no chance they'll see any responsibility with themselves.

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago

surely this is satire no?

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

You're probably right, especially considering this sentence:

It's difficult to see in advance that removing game assets from the game will result in the unavailability of said assets in game.

I've seen this kind of defense meant honestly before, so I'm not 100% sure, but by god - I hope you're right.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago

This is but their legit response was "dunno, that wasn't supposed to happen but it kinda did, maybe don't do anything now, we'll try to fix it sometimes", so this is not that far:

[-] Summzashi@lemmy.one 12 points 7 months ago

Wooooooooooooooosh

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

God, I hope so!

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Wait, but if they pulled the game from Steam shouldn't the owners still keep the game (DLC in this case) on their libraries?

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

They refunded people, which probably removed the DLC from their libraries. People who bought the ultimate edition kept it.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

That can happen? I wasn't aware developers could literally remove a game from your Steam library, if so that's really shitty and scummy.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Well, they refunded it, so people got their money back. But it sucks that it breaks peoples save files.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I guess, but so the owner chose to get a refund, right? If so then that's to be expected, if that's the case then I don't see what the fuzz is about. Unless the refund was forced onto the customer.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The refund was forced. Players didn't choose it.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well then my opinion stands, that's pretty shitty. The choice to refund should ultimately lie with the customer not with the company.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I think the refund would have been right to do from the company side once everything was prepared - it wouldn't be right for them to keep any money from customers after the content has been integrated into the base game. But only once they are sure nothing will break due to the refund.