Vr is still very much gimmicky. Once the novelty wears off it’s pretty meh

Words are hard. This is what I mean

You 1000% will not get lost in the noise if you put out a helldivers like quality game. There’s nerds everyday combing through steam store looking for the next great games. Helldivers with zero marketing would have made significantly less but still been a resounding commercial success

There’s no hidden gems in steam. Games sell as well as they should for their quality. There’s margin of error of course like a low quality game sells on the higher end due to good marketing or a high quality game sells low end due to poor marketing.

Most games are just not great

I’m convinced it’s unnecessary if your game is good. Word of mouth is so strong with gamers

Such as…?

As someone who has purchased and played. Idk what all the hype is about. For a city builder there’s a distinct lack of management options. And its pretty shallow. Just get a bunch of ox to build shit quick

Bought it expecting to be blown away. It’s kinda lack luster so far. Pawns are very buggy constantly getting stuck. All building is basically gated by how many ox you have to drag wood around. And they always seem to go for the farthest felled log instead of taking from stock pile that’s much closer. And if your switching family jobs it swaps first family out by default which isn’t ideal for many reasons and going through menu to choose what family is painful.

Not sure what all the hype is about. Four point system to choose house plots? It’s cool but not that cool lol

Paprika 3 is great! Highly recommend

Lying to community - promised no paid dlc then sold out to tencent who surprise pushes out paid dlc

Screwing over modders - helicopters in game and some maps were rumored to have been stolen from modders

Taking fun mechanics and making them unfun - prime example here people progressing too fast so splitting classes up and wiping xp

The list goes on but I don’t remember all the little things. It’s been years since I was big into squad

Offworld is case study on how you can repeatably shoot yourself in the foot and still succeed

Tl;dw?

Hotfixes are due to serious issues. If it wasn’t Hotfix than probably not but I’m sure the people that were impacted by this fix would appreciate this announcement

It’s so dumb. Instead of struggling with AI to do what your employees did you could make your workforce 20% more productive using AI. Go further faster

This is what happens when a game engine is bought by an advertising company