Paradox CEO admits company made "wrong calls in several projects" in wake of Life By You's cancellation
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/paradox-ceo-admits-company-made-wrong-calls-in-several-projects-in-wake-of-life-by-yous-cancellation
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TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 2y
Blu@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2y
I have to imagine the game was a disaster for them to abandon it like they did. Given what Cities Skylines 2 was like at release, their standards must be in the basement.
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
Right,
It seems like they realized with Cities Skylines 2 that their QA and overall output quality had to be higher and Life By You's state must have been in such a position that they weren't confident they could turn it around.
Ultimately, they need to do some good-will gesture around CS2 in order to gain the trust of the sim audience again and I don't think it should be that difficult for them to course correct that game (though how they market it and get it in people's hands is another question...)
Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 2y
They have all they need. We can only speculate why the fuck they stopped it.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
When are they going to do something good with the White Wolf IP they bought?
shani66@ani.social · 3 pts · 2y
They are too busy trying to kill it, as far as i can tell.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
something something shareholders something quarterly profit something
That's probably the real reason they cut back on a lot of stuff.
Shareholders need to hodl longer instead of trying to hit those quarterlies.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 2y
I think they made the right choice with that one, it looked horrible. Lifeless, no personality whatsoever... It was for the best.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Are there good videos or articles to demonstrate what you mean? I hadn't even had heard of it, and now it's canceled lol.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
The game's youtube channel has a lot of gameplay videos. If you want my opinion it looked like an uglier, jankier, poor man's Sims 3 with none of the charm or humor from that series and I don't think it would ever had much of a real chance against Sims, not without a few more years in development at the very least because even the gameplay videos from a couple months ago still have that "alpha" look to it.