Toxic spill
  • 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.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/mVaIY

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The comments in here are really disappointing and a reflection of where this community has gone in general.

    Excusing toxic gamer communities, accusing the developer of things for pointing it out? All because the game not in a good state is toxic in itself and really not what this community should be.

    This place gets worse every week.

    • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ve played CS2 for weeks. Days of hours. Have completely enjoyed it.

      It’s not finished and they’re honest about that. Also, comparisons to CS in it’s finished state (easy to do unconsciously) overlook just how many DLCs it took to get to full maturity.

      I enjoy the game and have no regrets for buying. I don’t feel deceived since I could have asked for as refund.

      I think some of this is a specific kind of FOMO. Fear of missing out (on what could have been). I’m hoping they do enough to fix the parenthetical.

      Edit to add: my computer has great specs for late 2020. It’s not top of the line, but it has everything I thought it would need, CPU, RAM, GPU. That may impact my experience.

      The game was unplayable on my 5 year old laptop. But it’s not really a gaming rig anyhow…

    • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The comments in here are really disappointing and a reflection of what this community has become, corporate bootlickers.

      Excusing companies scamming customers because gamers dared to point out the scam? All because the companies quarterly profits weren’t up enough, is a really toxic state and not what this community should be.

      • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        There was no scam. They were upfront about the issues before release.

        Stating facts is not bootlicking. It’s just being a mature, fair adult about things.

        • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Can you link any prerelease announcements that include the bugs and performance issues?

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding what kind of commentary you were expecting.

      Leading up to release as soon as the first reviews pointed out bad performance (see thread), many on Lemmy were bashing CO/Paradox for putting out a beta-stage product as if it was fully released, and Lemmings and people at large were never real fans of being unpaid QA testers for game companies.

      Mind you, I love this game, and there’s a lot in there that I can tell CO devs put their heart and soul in. But I see a comment or a post every now and then saying “Lemmy is becoming so toxic, like Reddit” [1] [2] [3] [4] and I’m trying to figure out what exactly has changed, if you can help me out here.

      • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        For me it’s the over representation of self described communists that take over every thread to poetically or unpoetically just keep saying capitalism=bad and then do shit like justify bad behavior because capitalism=bad or pretend to care about making sure employees get paid while advocating for piracy of everything being justified.