Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players"

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  are people expeting devs to infinitely support a game? one that isn’t even on the live service model in the first place?

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stardew Valley has kinda skewed expectations there I think

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    • will@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Terraria would like a word

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was a controversial decisin because iirc Motion Twin stopped development to produce Rogue Prince of Persia, not because they couldn’t, and didn’t allow anyone else to continue development.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was (allegedly) a lot more complicated than that. A non-exhaustive summary is that:

      Dead Cells was created by Motion Twin which is explicitly a worker coop which has a lot of implications on business decisions and what projects they work on. When they were mostly churning out web games and mobile slop, it was great. When they suddenly had one of THE biggest indie games on the planet? And a corporate structure that fundamentally limits the size of the company?

      Some people wanted to keep working on that to make money. Others wanted to keep making new games. So it led to spinning off Evil Empire (explicitly not a coop) to support Dead Cells but with creative control still going back to MT.

      So it was pretty much inevitable that they would go their separate ways with Motion Twin doing their own new game and Evil Empire doing Prince of Persia.

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The entire article was summarised in the headline. There’s literally nothing else of interest there

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• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Didn’t they release a dlc last year? It’s OK to let people work on other projects.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I stopped playing the game about 5 years ago and I wish they had stopped screwing with the game even then. They kept changing core aspects of the game and pulling the rug out from under players.

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