- 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
If you’re working retail and your job is to deal with customers I highly doubt your boss will let you withdraw communication with your customers because some of them were verbally mean.
Retail usually calls the cops and bans customers who threaten or scream at employees, which is the real world version of withdrawing communication.
I get your fee fees are hurt because a video game was not perfect, but people flinging shit like caged monkeys get shut down in most jobs. Its not excusable just because muh vidya gaem
CO can ban them from posting on their forums if they take it to far.
The comments are tame as fuck compared to most community/developer interactions.
… You think this primarily happens on their forums? Do they even have forums?
Do you know what email is?
You can block emails as well. You can moderate your steam forums and youtube comment section and Twitter replies. I can’t think of a single place where CO is interacting with the community that they can’t block/ban users who are mean.
Youre intentionally missing the point so hard Im starting to think youre one of the losers sending them death threats
I mean, you’re right, that’s just life™, but that’s still fundementally fucked up. For profit companies have to do that because they want everyone’s dollar, and if that means you’re a better fit for a job because you can deal with people being awful, then… It’s a shame we’ve ended up in that position, societally.