Developers of Cities: Skylines 2 have noticed a growing toxicity in their community, which is affecting engagement and creativity.
The CEO of Colossal Order expressed concern about the negative impact of toxicity on the team and the community.
The developers still encourage helpful criticism from the community but ask for it to be constructive and kind.

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At this point, I'm mad they're about to launch the DLC for every damn feature. Everyone should avoid being toxic, but Paradox/Colossal Order aren't blameless here. They shipped the game half-finished, and are gonna screw you out of your money. Just go back to the first Skylines.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Don't be mad, just wait to buy it till they offer a nice package deal (do we have a patient gamers community here?). If enough users do that, they hopefully change their business model.

Overall I also think that paid add-ons are quite okay, if they actually add new stuff and if the vase game is a finished priduct innitself. Ensures that developers continue to take care of the game without subscriptions and leads to games thatbone can play for a decade (like CK2). But yeah, Paradox overdoes this.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

My understanding is that there are performance problems too though. But I haven't kept up with it too closely.