Dear Cities fans,
We see and understand the disappointment many of you have expressed after the release of Cities: Skylines II and the recent release of Beach Properties. We asked for your patience and support, and you’ve shown those. In...
Cities 1 was a masterpiece upon release. For a while it got free updates to make it better. Then they released dlc, the first few were fine but they always got worse. By the end of the lifecycle of the first game they’d released a string of very poorly received dlcs.
Cities 2 came out to some of the worst reviews they’d received yet, and the fact that they released dlc before addressing the concerns of the community is pretty telling. It’s just a platform for continuous content and a lot of stuff that was in the base game for the first one was suddenly absent this release.
I’ve been waiting to buy it until the reviews start ticking back the right direction and it seems like that’s not going to happen.
I remember initially getting downvoted on Reddit when the announcement trailer was posted because I mentioned that this was going to be the case and that I was going to wait a couple years.
Paradox has focused hard on releasing games with DLC planned every 6-12 months as has been the case for almost all of their recent titles. And I play a lot of their games. Cities 2 should have released with at least some of the dlc content already released in 1, on top of being optimized for performance. Paradox should be the poster child for patient gamers.
LOL CS1 was a bare bones mess on release. It wasn’t good until several DLCs were released. It was just better than anything Sim City had going on in the past decade.
Cities 1 was a masterpiece upon release. For a while it got free updates to make it better. Then they released dlc, the first few were fine but they always got worse. By the end of the lifecycle of the first game they’d released a string of very poorly received dlcs.
Cities 2 came out to some of the worst reviews they’d received yet, and the fact that they released dlc before addressing the concerns of the community is pretty telling. It’s just a platform for continuous content and a lot of stuff that was in the base game for the first one was suddenly absent this release.
I’ve been waiting to buy it until the reviews start ticking back the right direction and it seems like that’s not going to happen.
I remember initially getting downvoted on Reddit when the announcement trailer was posted because I mentioned that this was going to be the case and that I was going to wait a couple years.
Paradox has focused hard on releasing games with DLC planned every 6-12 months as has been the case for almost all of their recent titles. And I play a lot of their games. Cities 2 should have released with at least some of the dlc content already released in 1, on top of being optimized for performance. Paradox should be the poster child for patient gamers.
LOL CS1 was a bare bones mess on release. It wasn’t good until several DLCs were released. It was just better than anything Sim City had going on in the past decade.