The most recent release is probably Anno 117 which came out yesterday. While decently looking it’s lacking features of the previous title (like coop mode and mod browser) with the promise they will be added later and is priced at around 60€ or 90€ if you want to gamble on the quality of the promised to be released DLC. They also relied on AI generated images in some of the assets used in the game instead of paying their artists. Optimisation for the game seems to be ok, but not great but it might be too early to judge that fully yet.
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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
What did they screw up recently?
the_strange@feddit.org 16 hours ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
That seems like way too recent to have any impact, though. It wouldn’t even have made it into their report data
the_strange@feddit.org 15 hours ago
They tried to build a lot of hype around the game and get people to preorder. Maybe those numbers were (far) below expectations?
caut_R@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I don‘t get why they’d cheap out on artists, a couple people drawing illustrations is surely not gonna balloon development cost - and arguably one of the easiest places to spot when it‘s AI slop. It‘s as if they think there must be gen AI stuff in the game somewhere or the game‘s worse or something.
the_strange@feddit.org 13 hours ago
If you look at the older titles, there’s so much love and passion that went into the artworks. 1404 is 16 years old and has aged incredibly well, because of the high quality of the work that went into it. This is missing in 117.
Klear@quokk.au 2 hours ago
What didn’t they screw up?