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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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

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