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Ahead of the city builder's release on October 24, the devs want to "manage expectations on performance."

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would say what's next is preemptively decrying death threats, but they already do that when they preemptively fabricate the death threats.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a software developer I can say threats from users are absolutely real unfortunately. A lot of people suck and it’s easy to hear from them.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Sure. But if you know your product is going to be trash, why not jump ahead of the curve and victimize yourself to start with? It's not difficult to do these days, and why wouldn't you do it? Altruism? At this point, not assuming this happens is just naive.