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.

  • helenslunchEnglish
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    19 days ago

    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.

    Except you don’t find out the devs/publishers released a broken game until after you buy it. Which is like, way too common. You can direct your frustrations to the publishers who insist on pushing out broken games and fixing them later.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Yeah although, within reasonable boundaries this is now on the side of the consumer:

      • Reviews exist and we can wait for them.
      • Even in cases where they intentionally tricked journalists and reviewers by giving them special copies, we got a 2h refund window on Steam and similar services on say GOG nowadays.

      Can still be circumvented by shady publishers, sure, but it’s getting more difficult to trick customers slowly.