mike591@kbin.social to Gaming@kbin.social · 8 months agoCities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker"www.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up111arrow-down1external-linkCities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker"www.rockpapershotgun.commike591@kbin.social to Gaming@kbin.social · 8 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
Cities: Skylines 2 developers Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have penned a letter to their community …
minus-squareJakenVeina@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoLet’s be clear, though: developers did not make this decision. Managers and publishers did.
minus-squareampersandrew@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoThose managers and publishers were likely looking at their burn rate and needed to get some funding to come in to keep the studio afloat. It’s tough out there for games right now.
minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoThat’s…a pretty big, pure guess there.
minus-squareampersandrew@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-28 months agoNot really. If they could afford to release it after optimizations, they would.
minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoThere is so much evidence of companies not doing the opposite, it seems like a really big assumption.
Let’s be clear, though: developers did not make this decision. Managers and publishers did.
Those managers and publishers were likely looking at their burn rate and needed to get some funding to come in to keep the studio afloat. It’s tough out there for games right now.
That’s…a pretty big, pure guess there.
Not really. If they could afford to release it after optimizations, they would.
There is so much evidence of companies not doing the opposite, it seems like a really big assumption.