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Cities: Skylines 2 developers Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have penned a letter to their community …

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[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be clear, though: developers did not make this decision. Managers and publishers did.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's...a pretty big, pure guess there.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really. If they could afford to release it after optimizations, they would.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There is so much evidence of companies not doing the opposite, it seems like a really big assumption.