Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines
Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 months agoThe base game having less content than its predecessor isn’t the greedy part. It’s the fact that taking advantage of that market inelasticity wasn’t enough for Paradox and judging it acceptable to release a product in this state on top of that.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the kind of decision you make when you run out of cash to keep funding development.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Paradox and Colossal Order have said they literally ran out of cash?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Everyone ran out of cash in this industry. Investment dried up, and they knew what state their game was shipping in. That doesn’t mean you’re wrong to be upset as a consumer either.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Paradox is extremely healthy.
If we’re both going to be speculating here, I’m going with the more likely consideration for a publisher with record performance. In early August, they saw an early access game get its full release in an unfinished state to massive acclaim and sales (along with similar, larger trends) and decided to test their market with the same.
I don’t even have a dog in this fight; I’m not a city management sim fan. I’m just calling it like it is.