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Cities: Skylines 2 devs considered release delay to boost performance, but decided it's "not a dealbreaker" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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