Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher
www.eurogamer.net
Manor Lords' publisher has hit back at claims the game is an "interesting case study in the pitfalls of early access", …

This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don’t like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

But by now gamers have been so trained to expect to endless content treadmills and all their ilk like mtx and battle passes that publishers/developers get egged on if they don’t work on their game 24/7 and forever.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    253·
    4 months ago

    Game Publishers: complains about how users expect endless content

    Also Game Publishers: Mostly pushes for live service games and Free-to-Play

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    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      4 months ago

      Alternatively

      Game Publishers: Release unfinished game that gets horrid backlash until they work overtime to patch it to a slightly more playable hell, get caught in an update loop, game inadvertantly becomes live service.

      Sometimes, it works out (No Man’s Sky)

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      is Manor Lords live service? seems like they’re arguing against the notion that every game must be live service.

      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 months ago

        I was speaking of the gaming industry as a whole. I know very little about this developer. Perhaps they’re one of the good ones swept up in unfortunate-ness.