Toxic spill
  • Developers of Cities: Skylines 2 have noticed a growing toxicity in their community, which is affecting engagement and creativity.
  • The CEO of Colossal Order expressed concern about the negative impact of toxicity on the team and the community.
  • The developers still encourage helpful criticism from the community but ask for it to be constructive and kind.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/mVaIY

    • @[email protected]English
      24•10 months ago

      Whatever complaint you got about the game, saying that anyone « deserves toxicity » is not the clever take you think it is.

        • @[email protected]English
          -5•10 months ago

          If you were scammed, go to court. If you need to grasp on any excuse to leash out a shitty online behaviour, fix your life.

            • all-knight-party
              6•10 months ago

              So because their job means interacting with the community that means they customers are allowed to go ham and be total assholes? That’s like saying that just because you work retail you shouldn’t be upset by customers being dicks.

              It’ll absolutely happen anyway due to the nature of humans, and having a thick skin will help you cope with working a job like that, but that doesn’t mean the customers should be acting that way and that we should just normalize and enable that behavior just because that’s the way it is. It just perpetuates the problem.

                • @[email protected]English
                  4•10 months ago

                  Retail usually calls the cops and bans customers who threaten or scream at employees, which is the real world version of withdrawing communication.

                  I get your fee fees are hurt because a video game was not perfect, but people flinging shit like caged monkeys get shut down in most jobs. Its not excusable just because muh vidya gaem

                • all-knight-party
                  0•10 months ago

                  I mean, you’re right, that’s just life™, but that’s still fundementally fucked up. For profit companies have to do that because they want everyone’s dollar, and if that means you’re a better fit for a job because you can deal with people being awful, then… It’s a shame we’ve ended up in that position, societally.

            • @[email protected]English
              -1•10 months ago

              If you can’t behave in a respectful manner, you shouldn’t interact with someone else.

              See? I can do this too.

    • RentlarEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      Thanks for your honest thoughts on it and your experience. Even though CO media team doesn’t deserve toxicity imo, (I think Paradox management deserves it more), a lot is genuine feedback about people’s poor experiences with the game.

      I pushed through a 100k pop play through at 10fps 720p by the end before I upgraded my PC. That would be unacceptable for most but I had fun.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•10 months ago

      I have so many high density buildings in my city and no appreciable FPS or slowdown issues.

      How does your computer compare to recommended specs?