• 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.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/mVaIY

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    9 months ago

    Yeah I think expectations are too high, where people expected a perfect game like cities skylines forgetting that when it launched it was also a very rocky start.

    Gamers in general are just very entitled, and very unforgiving

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      9 months ago

      Gamers in general are just very entitled, and very unforgiving

      Didn’t the sequel have some pretty large problems on launch?

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        Nah man, that’s just entitlement. Wanting your $50 game to work well when you buy it is peak entitlement, you should be happy your game is running at 10fps with your 4080 RTX.

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        9 months ago

        It wasn’t polished yes, graphics were not great and people were justified being disappointed and returning it if they felt like it was game breaking

        But the vitriol is what I mean, the pure hate, the threats to developers, the anger thrown at them. That is what I’m referring to. If some graphical issues make you so mad that you need to literally threaten people then I think you shouldn’t game anymore. That’s where I say entitled and anger issues.

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          9 months ago

          There’s always going to be a small group of people who take things too far once a game gets popular enough. I don’t think it’s right but I’d say it’s to be expected