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[–] drasglaf 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't play online games anymore, but if I ever decided to do it again, I wouldn't touch anything by Hi-Rez.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They make amazing prototypes…then ruin it

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

So everyone before the money people are great at their jobs, then the whole thing is workshopped to maximise profit which inevitably turns it into a steaming pile of absolute shit?

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

Seems so

At GDC they said Paladins cb12 happened so they could meet content deadlines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, crunch, famously really good for creativity and solid products...

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

Well there would be more crunch if they hadn’t scaled down the game

But having slower content updates would have helped a lot more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago