That’s why customer goodwill is so important. It can save you from doing a major mistake simply by the fans still buying the next game out of support for the studio.

Also, the “if we don’t get funded” message rubs me the wrong. It feels like an appeal to emotion rather than an honest message. Something along the lines of “we’ll continue looking for funding, though the project will be put on hold” would feel more genuine without tugging on heartstrings.

Let’s see how their new game idea works out. Honestly a prophunt horror game seems interesting, but I feel it’s pretty much done to death by free mods/gamemodes already.

Alternatively you can also use aluminium. Snails have a natural allergy to aluminium due to a reaction happening between the metal and their slime. Therefore they will avoid aluminium at all cost.

As well as the proportions being flipped, resulting in the now iconic look. IIRC it was supposed to be a pig initially.

Alternatively tgey could use the Rimworld model: release DLCs that heavily change how you play the game, allowing you to tailor the game to your wants and needs that way.

Are you sure that a dinosaur laid a chicken egg? Or did a chicken hatch from a dinosaur egg? When does a dinosaur end being a dinosaur and begin being a chicken anyways?

Generally, they offer a giant infrastruture that no other game selling platform offers:

• cloud saving
• community hub for sharing user content
• inbuilt forum
• mod database
• better shop visibility through intelligent algorithms
• community events like NEXT fest

overall, you get what you pay for.

Because even the official name of the problem contains it.

AFAIK, the only publicly available build is an outdated image based on debian instead of arch and not really worth running due to its state.

And it wasn’t the goal to appease the community, but the shareholders.

They wouldn’t understand why a new product isn’t earning like gangbusters when it’s a sequel to a live service game. They only see a flop that “has to leech off” the profits of its predecessors, making it a liability in the eyes of those people. They mostly care about short term profits, not long term strategies.

You could also do the Overwatch thing and shut down the servers of the previous game so people either have to accept the new game or leave. Solves the problem in the eyes of the executives.

One thing I would say justifies a new game is when you want to resolve a problem that’s ingrained in the existing content, making these changes fight with the majority of the game. A new iteration, a clean slate, can help with that a lot.

This sounds more like more of a holdout shooter in the vein of COD Zombies and KF than more objective-based shooters like L4D (and Payday and Deep Rock Galactic, to name some other games in that category).

I find it annoying when outlets try to compare anything horde shooter based with L4D. It harms the game they are talking about, since these games can’t compete with the more quiet yet tense moments and their fallout L4D offers due to their design.