Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 26 days ago

Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

FinishingDutch@lemmy.world · edit-2 26 days ago

It would also be great if devs added things during development that should simply be there at launch. Instead of that, shit gets rushed out the door with promises of future fixes and updates. And then devs get all huffy when people rightfully ask for things to be added that are supposed to be basic launch features…

Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 25 days ago

I agree with the sentiment, but I don’t know Helldivers 2 – what basic launch features were/are missing?

AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 25 days ago

There’s a strong argument that the server architecture needed to be better at launch, but then the game sold more than an order of magnitude better than it was expected to, so no one would have noticed that it scaled badly had the player count been in line with their design and testing.