With Cities Skylines 2 Players Turning on the Game, CEO Reveals ‘Biggest Regret’
With Cities Skylines 2 Players Turning on the Game, CEO Reveals ‘Biggest Regret’
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Maybe they shouldn’t have released a literal beta version of the game.
“modding support”
Really? Not the fact that you stuck with Unity?
>*“The biggest regret we have is that modding support is not yet available for the game. We have been working on it since the beginning of the project and the intent was to have it fully ready at release….*
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>*“During the project we faced, and still continue to face, technical difficulties that affect the speed and quality of the development, especially performance. We simply ran out of time as the focus had to shift from modding support to all hands on deck to fix the performance. All this work is still ongoing.*
This is really starting to look like the issue with Cities Skylines 2 was not really a Colossal Order issue but Paradox – the publishers. CO ran into technical difficulties and Paradox wouldn’t give them an extension on the timeline which led to CS2 being released as an unstable build and core features dropped entirely.
If you look at the rest of the Paradox catalogue almost all of their titles have drifted into micro-transaction orientated titles. Insane DLC packages, insane in-game purchases, the removal of core features and placing them behind paywalls and the introduction of bulk subscription packages for games you already paid for.
Modding was a core feature of CS1 but it isn’t a money maker. I strongly suspect Paradox wanted to squeeze out a barebones, skeleton CS2 and then reintroduce core content over time through DLC’s and in-game purchases.
…then the unpaid modders could have fixed the game 😅
CEO – Who hoisted this petard!?!?
People have simply had enough of broken game releases. It’s not to do with modding support, it’s the weird gaslighting companies that want to be Wendys social media team have.
Even with the best intentions, it’s guilt by association and rightly so. Imagine buying this day 1 with a 4090 and best processor only to find the game runs like absolute ass at 1080p low settings.
Gaslighting prime example being another gamepass release, Starfield, who told gamers facing issues it was their fault and it ran great only to address all of the issues in subsequent updates. I feel like people have had enough of this carryon.
People just want games to work when they are released, it’s as simple as that. Everyone has been screaming it for years and years by this stage.
CS 2 is just a downgrade from a modded CS 1.
The game is a massive piece of shit. Performance is a complete joke. Players turned on the game because it’s shit and deserves to be treated as such. I was looking forward to the game but it’s terrible.
I was so excited for this game.
I returned it, cities skylines 1 is better in my opinion
I really thought that game would have had more than two players.
Maybe players should just not preorder games and instead wait for reviews. It’s in our hands guys!
I was totally out of the loop on this since the first trailer but played the shit out of Skylines 1. Sad to see another game released in such a state…
People don’t want to admit it, but most of what attracted people to the original game is what CO lifted from SimCity, which had crashed and burned long before the game shipped. They existed in a vacuum. All they really had to do was do better than SimCity was make bigger city lots, not make it online always and include modder support for the modders to do all the heavy lifting. It was frustrating to review C:S as a game when everyone basically said “you have to download mods for it to be an accurate representation of the game”. And people were fine with this. CO built a platform and what people got out of it was what others contributed to it.
That CO had nearly a decade to make a sequel with all the money they made from the game and its expansions, it’s pretty unforgiveable that it shipped in the shape that it did. It’s not hard to see that maybe they caught lightning in a bottle once and that lightning in a bottle was really just them being in the right place at the right time with the right game.
That’s not to admonish what the first game did right, but it’s clear through the sequel that the devs were REALLY lucky with their first game when EA let them have the whole field unguarded and their publisher is really screwing them, too.
I want to play this game. Been wanting a city builder. I love Caesar 3 though so maybe I should a city builder that’s more medieval or ancient.
“In November, Colossal Order confirmed a series of delays for planned DLC so it could focus on much-needed performance improvements and the already delayed Mod Editor. ”
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Right here…this is the problem. Quit planning on DLC before the game is even playable, heck quit planning on DLC at all. Make a good and COMPLETE game. Quit being EA…it really isn’t hard.
Cs1 was one of my favorite games. CS2 is absolute ass
I have a pretty strong PC and never had performance issues. I also didn’t care about mod support very much.
For me the biggest issue was the economy. The best description I’ve heard is that it’s “a simulation of a simulation” that’s too stripped down and unsatisfying.
I watched youtubers that make city builders their life… carefully tiptoe around their initial excitement and explain how no one should buy CS2.
Yeah, the biggest regret should be delivering a game with performance issues…
I don’t give a flying fuck about mod, the base game isn’t working.
The console release is going to get cancelled isn’t it