Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher
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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.

    • FiniteBanjoEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      Oh yes it does. We can absolutely judge what we have seen so far. For some reason a narrative of this type is trending: main character is great because they’re great and awesome and everything they do is perfect, and the bad guy person is bad because they just are, and we can’t see this for ourselves so we need to be told?

      We see it in movies, TV Shows, and Videogames, and people are rightly getting really sick of it.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Tease != an instant turn off

      The media apparatus as a whole seems to have forgotten what ‘tease’ means.