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.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 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?

        • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          It’s been four years and all of my friends moved on. I still enjoy it but there’s only so much fun to be had solo

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I think it’s going to be like 7 Days to Die and just never be completed. I’m hoping they’ll eventually do one big announcement or final release that will get my friends to log back in