Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
"Games are so meticulously crafted."
"just add multyplaier lol how hard is that lmao" - spammed in every bloody community about every SP game ever.
But I only want to play single player 🙁
So do I, but plenty people want MP.
However adding MP to a game is never as simple as those people claim it is. Now your game has to handle the connection, data sharing, making sure all MP players are seeing the exact same thing. And it needs to do it with good performance, because laggy MP is hell. It'll probably need a server too, either external or one of the players - the later having performance costs. Balance is often thrown out of the window and needs adjustments, because as soon as you add another player into the game they gather resources 2x faster together.
All developers wish people understood this
Games journalism constantly amazes me. Here's the article:
"GamesRadar recently published an amazing mega interview with devs from dozens of studios. Here's a quote from it. It's the same one we put in the headline so now you've read it twice. I recommend you checkout the rest of the interview."
This is why I support moddable games but today's game economics don't support that.