Submitted 5 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1257610/view/4201372129464692603?l=english
Really weird thing to happen before the game is even released. The game previously got delayed and is now being moved to a different team.
It’s so sad when you go back to the early dev diaries on YouTube where the guys who made PA1 are clearly just creating a passion project. And now PDX has turned it into just another one of their DLC treadmill games and introduced a slew of game breaking bugs in the process.
Yeah I was an early adopter myself, it was my gateway drug into rimworld and dwarf fortress. I stopped playing shortly after they sold the studio
Introversion still exists and wasn’t sold, they’re making a somewhat similar game now - The Last Starship.
Same here. PA primed me for Rimworld. Never touched it since.
The first game is still loaded with bugs to this day. I had no faith in a second game, and this news does it no favors.
Sounds like what happened to Kerbal Space Program 2… it didn't end well
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s not usually a sign of a healthy development cycle.
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Nor of a quality end product.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 months ago
Bah what do you mean? They’re only losing… all of their institutional knowledge, handing off a complex piece of software to a more junior, less qualified, probably offshore team.
This is a cause for celebration! Bonuses for the MBA who came up with this idea!