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.

  • vasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Very reasonable, I hope the dev sticks to his guns and keeps a manageable pace. I feel that it’s right to expect content updates coming in if the game is marked early access, but so long as you don’t pull a Valheim, people shouldn’t be mad at you

        • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It is. It’s just slow, and you know how G*mers are about slow dev cycles.

          “Dead game! Dead game!” Then how come they just released a huge update for it with the next entire biome a few weeks ago?

      • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nothing that bad, but the updates are insanely slow and the roadmap of things they promised in 2021 took 3-4 years instead of one. At this rate the game could spend a decade in early access.