My wallet has already burned through enough. The last thing I needed was a Steam Summer Sale to start.

This was a very well written statement and gives me a lot of hope for the future of the platform. I’ll be more than happy to invest my time and effort into it.

Let’s get rid of that little circle when posting…

I agree with the sentiment for sure, but this is actually a bug. If you refresh the page, the content does appear. It’s just that for some reason, it keeps the spinning circle for around 30 seconds, even when posted.

At the moment, the cause of it is under investigation. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3061

Lemmy has been around for a moderate chunk of time but the content has recently exploded which is causing some growing pains for not only servers operators but also the code behind it. Bugs that only existed with larger communities are now only being discovered and should be fixed rather quickly.

It’s really good to see that they’ve listened to what the community have said they wanted and implemented them very well. The trailer is practically a montage of every major mod that we’ve seen in Cities Skylines since launch.

It’s going to be interesting to see what the modding community adds on top of that.

They seem to have a good track record with releasing good games, but they’re a still like any other publisher at heart. The rights and mental health of devs seem to be a second thought, but that’s pretty much any publisher these days.

However if you’re looking for quality, they seem to be of positive indication.

PC Gamer - Two reports paint a troubling picture of workplace abuses at acclaimed indie studios

Video Game Chronicles appeared to talk to the games creative director Pawel Sasko, who said this.

The developer says it’s still discussing the exact details of when and how base game owners will receive the new systems, but that its intention is to deploy them for free. So as well as adding a sizable chunk of new story to Night City, Phantom Liberty looks like it could finally do good on many of the promises the base game failed to live up to for many, before the game’s leaders move Stateside to establish the sequel dev team.

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So really, who fucking knows. Apparently the entire game is being massively overhauled to the point of where it’s practically a new game, the fact it took three years to get to this point shows truly how underbaked the initial release was.

No Man’s Sky is a bit different since it was a tiny studio that was promising the mood. Sony also threw the studio director straight into the limelight even though he had effectively zero public relations experience. Then again, he doesn’t really seemed to have learnt his lesson, as he has big promises for his next game, maybe it’ll be a surprise, who knows. Cyberpunk 2077 on the other hand has no such excuse, they had a very well capable and trained marketing and PR team.

CDPR was probably everyone’s go to of a AAA dev that hadn’t yet been corrupted by money. Unfortunately with Cyberpunk 2077 we found out the hard way that yes, they had indeed been corrupted by said money. They single-handily managed to annihilate any sort of reputation they had gained over the many years of their studio, then managed to squander all of that in less than a few days. As the saying goes, slow to rise, quick to fall.

It feels like we’re close but miles away from what we were promised at launch. Their marketing was such an incredible barrel of lies I can’t believe that anyone is entrusting them with what they’re saying. I’m optimistic that it’ll be a good expansion pack, but I’m definitely going to wait for a bit before I purchase this one.

It looks good in the marketing (it always does) but we should all remember that it’s Bethesda making this. Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point. The very sad state of the industry.