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The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines
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Remember when games used to be a finished product on a cartridge/CD? You just bought it at the store for a base price of a video game and that was it. Any bugs found in the game became widely accepted, and maybe even exploited by competitive gamers. But there was no patching, no updates, no DLC. You paid for a game up front and that was it.
I miss those days.
Why do you miss things being permanently broken and unfixable?
The thing is, it forced the people making games to release them as a finished, working product, with the bugs (mostly) stamped out.
Today it's just push something out the door now, and we'll ~~patch it~~ soak them for even more money with DLC later.