Wooooooooooooooosh
Comment on Cities Skylines 2: "Beach properties assets are all gone and my city is screwed. Thanks a lot."
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 months agoGod, how can someone be so blind?
But this was such an edge case, removing assets resulting in the unavailability of said assets in game, that this interruption simply couldn’t have been for foreseen.
They couldn’t foresee issues created by removing assets, in a game that is supposed to support user mods, which can be added/removed at any time? Really?
The explanation I’ve seen is that they wanted to pull the DLC as soon as possible, since it was - literally - the worst-rated product on Steam. I’m 99% sure the bean counters responsible for all of the terrible decisions (release the game, no matter what state! Release the DLC, no matter the amount of content!) pulled the lever on this one again - no chance they’ll see any responsibility with themselves.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Wait, but if they pulled the game from Steam shouldn’t the owners still keep the game (DLC in this case) on their libraries?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They refunded people, which probably removed the DLC from their libraries. People who bought the ultimate edition kept it.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That can happen? I wasn’t aware developers could literally remove a game from your Steam library, if so that’s really shitty and scummy.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, they refunded it, so people got their money back. But it sucks that it breaks peoples save files.
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
surely this is satire no?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re probably right, especially considering this sentence:
I’ve seen this kind of defense meant honestly before, so I’m not 100% sure, but by god - I hope you’re right.
sukhmel@programming.dev 2 months ago
This is but their legit response was “dunno, that wasn’t supposed to happen but it kinda did, maybe don’t do anything now, we’ll try to fix it sometimes”, so this is not that far:
developer response: "Hi all! I just wanted to pop in and let you know we’re looking into what’s happened as you were of course supposed to keep access to the Beach Properties content until the patch that moves it to the base game arrived. Assets are replaced by the placeholder boxes, but as the waterfront zoning isn’t available in the base game yet, I recommend holding off on loading saves with a lot of those zones. At this time we don’t have an ETA for when this is resolved, but at the very least the upcoming patch (date still to be announced) will resolve it as the assets become part of the base game. I’m so sorry for the inconvenience this is causing!