This game was one of the very few I was waiting so badly to come out, and was so so disappointed with the launch. Still hasn't convinced me to try it, although it has come a long way
It was released along side mods (a very slow first party mod manager) so I guess they think it makes it better. The mods are good and it's a nice thing that they don't depend on the steam workshop anymore but they don't excuse releasing a £10 dlc along side it that just adds more skins for low density houses when the game still doesn't work
For all saying the content pack is scummy, first the devs that work on things like this are not the same fixing bugs and issues, working on mod tools etc. Second, this pack is part of the Ultimate Edition, which plenty of people paid for already. It’d be really scummy to NOT release this in a timely fashion for the people who already spent their money expecting it.
I honestly don’t get the outrage at a freaking content pack that doesn’t affect anything at all…
I mean, there's obviously the stupid outrage of the "Why did they do this instead of fixing bugs?" variety (as if 3D artists can be reassigned to coding), but there's also, I think, an absolutely justifiable resentment at being asked to pay $10 for an absolutely tiny handful of assets. Like, apparently this is something like ten buildings and four trees? That's fucking weak. At around $3-$5 I think people would be fine with it, but $10 is just taking the piss.
I understand the energy in these replies, but do you guys seriously think artists are packaging their work as a DLC and integrating it into the main game? There is still a lot of work that goes into any DLC or major integration that has to be done by the same people that fix bugs.
Games like Cities don’t need that much dev work for assets to be placed in game. I’m sure the game was built with that in mind. That’s how there are so many assets and content to be downloaded in the steam workshop for Cities 1…
Yeah the DLC is really scummy imo. Definitely not worth the money. I'm just gonna ignore it. What's more hopeful is the free patch with the introduction of mods and a good amount of bugfixes. If they keep this going they might be able to pull a Cyberpunk (although slightly less dramatic).
Watching gamers back peddle on cyberpunk hurts my soul. Just because the game is good now doesn't excuse the bullshit they pulled on launch but peope just excuse it because it's good now, they get what they deserve.
I get what you say, but I bought Cyberpunk after the fixes and it's legitimately one of my favourite games I've ever played. They should've never been in this position, but they righted their wrongs instead of abandoning the game and they made it into the masterpiece it deserved to be.
What exactly do you want done about it? Are people not allowed to like a game if they had a bad launch but have since fixed it up?
Ultimately, the stakes are pretty low and you can avoid the risk of bad launches by just avoiding new launches in general and see where things stand with the game once the dust settles.
Personally, I'd take a bad launch year over MTX or invasive DRM/anti-cheat methods that don't even really work to stop piracy or cheating.
It's kind of interesting that this franchise grew entirely out of the failure of SimCity in the same space. Now they are the ones fumbling their captive market and I wonder if another city builder franchise is going to spring up soon.