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Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don't like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

But by now gamers have been so trained to expect to endless content treadmills and all their ilk like mtx and battle passes that publishers/developers get egged on if they don't work on their game 24/7 and forever.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The dude was talking about the antagonist and not the playable character. That’s why the playable character says “She’s back” at the end. Also it was just a teaser trailer to remind us that the game still exist and to show some gameplay. It was definitely not a commercial to sell the game to us. The development is probably no where near finished.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

There was zero gameplay in the trailer, except for maybe a walking animation, but I admit I missed the nuance of them describing the antagonist while a bunch of scenes of not-that-person flashed inbetween dialogue.

Storywriting needs to come before all other aspects of a narrative driven RPG like the Fable titles. The development being ongoing is no excuse for that. The only time I can think of that story changes to an ongoing development resulted in a decent product was FFX and maybe the movie Emperor's New Groove but at the same time it's hard not to feel like we were robbed of the story it could have been.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s just a teaser dude. Nothing about it says the writing is bad or good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tease != an instant turn off

The media apparatus as a whole seems to have forgotten what 'tease' means.

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