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Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community' (www.techradar.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Developers of Cities: Skylines 2 have noticed a growing toxicity in their community, which is affecting engagement and creativity.
The CEO of Colossal Order expressed concern about the negative impact of toxicity on the team and the community.
The developers still encourage helpful criticism from the community but ask for it to be constructive and kind.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

On one hand people can be jerks, on the other hand there definetaly is a trend of releasing broken games with a 'patch it later' mentality.

Its kind of hard to take a side because people being assholes isn't the solution but remaining civil is just going to encourage the behaviour and we'll get even more broken releases.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's true but, at the end of the day, it's developers who have no control over how a game is released getting shat on and harrassed instead of the publishers actually responsible for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then don't buy games on release. There's no rush. I've been pretty satisfied just buying games I want on sale and have still built up quite the backlog mainly getting titles at 75%+ off. No Man's sky and subnautica were both just awesome games for me because the period where they were unfinished and disappointing was long past by the time I tried them.

And in my experience, toxicity doesn't really encourage improving something so much as it encourages stopping to care how the toxic person feels about anything at all. Sometimes that caring even goes negative and the target of the toxicity can take pleasure in how much grief they've caused the person spewing out the vitriol.

Toxicity is for burning bridges, not encouraging better behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People who have studied game theory will know that a corporation's bad behavior needs to be met with bad behavior, or they will simply keep taking advantage of consumers. Low level employees are innocent, but executives are willingly making bad decisions with the sole interest of lining their pockets.

Edit Lol I guess instead of learning basic game theory you can just downvote and continue your ignorance. Surely that won't make the problem worse.