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Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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Such a toxic community! I popped over to reddit and saw posts like this
https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines2/comments/19bq6q3/keep_running_into_a_bug_that_destroys_my_tax/kitiiqn/
On steam checking new reviews shows people are unhappy and refunding but there’s hardly any vitriol there either. Moderators are quick but not that quick.
Over on the official forums we see complaints, disappointment and frustration but little in the way of outright hatred.
I’ve yet to run across anything that crosses a line in terms of content I would moderate, however that doesn’t mean moderators didn’t nuke such comments before I could see them.
This looks like the expected reaction to a game being broken on release. The devs are simply shifting blame to the community.
This is a good time to introduce survivorship bias. You are looking at what is still there. Not what has been removed, burried or was done via dms/non public comms.
Or maybe you are right and they are just making up the toxicity remarks.
Im well aware of survivorship bias and even addressed it in my comment.
It isn’t the first time devs have shifted blame for their failures to their customers.
Seems more like the managers are shifting blame to both the devs and the community. The people who planned out the development timeline and didn't provide an adequate amount of time for QA and bugfixes before release are the ones ultimately responsible.
So now they're telling the paying customers to "stop being toxic to our devs" instead of taking responsibility for their decisions.
"We released a garbage unfinished game that didn't run properly and wasn't that good, but it's the players fault."
Thank you for the legwork!
I wonder how much of the negative feedback is The Sims style issues where a lot of content is either going to be patched in later or come in as DLC but in the meantime something just feels like it's missing.
A slightly separate issue than just bugs but then again didn't some traffic issues in the original game get fixed that way?