Dead Cells receives its final major update today, seven years after release

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The original designer of Dead Cells, Sébastien Benard, formed a new studio and has a new roguelike game on the way called Tenjutsu in which players take the role of a renegade yakuza.

  Earlier this year, Benard called the decision to end Dead Cells development “the worst imaginable asshole move”.

  I’m curious about how others feel about this. I think Dead Cells is an incredible game, but the amount of continued DLC releases has actually turned me off of the game somewhat. I’m actually glad development has ended in a way, so that I can rebuy the “complete” game and have everything.

  The game already had tons of content, I don’t think it needs perpetual new content additions.

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  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reading the full statement, it sounds to me like there was more to it than just the game’s development coming to an end. It sounds like it might have been a very sudden decision by the publisher, with possible negative consequences for the development team.

    In principle I agree though, there is no issue with a game just being finished at some point, especially a single player one.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That does sound quite a bit different, although without the actual details of the internal situation it’s hard to say.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Regularly spaced updates are great - certainly Risk of Rain 2 comes to mind.

      Hopefully Gearbox doesn’t try to push it into negative territory…

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  • SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am becoming the same way. Maybe I am just old, but I miss the days of buying something and having a finished product. Instead, we have games like this and Stardew Valley that release in an incomplete state and are still receiving major content updates almost a decade later.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stardew doesn’t bother me because the updates are free. As soon as there’s more content for the game, I have it. If I feel like playing Stardew again, the new content is a reason to jump back in to playing it again.

      However with Dead Cells, whenever I think about going back and playing it I think about all the new content that I haven’t bought for it. It feels like my options are spend money for the current complete game, play an incomplete version, or just don’t play it right now. I’ve been deciding on “don’t play it right now” for years now.

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  still haven’t tried it! it’s in my library

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