1y ago

Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio

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Prison Architect 2 - A warm farewell and exciting welcome! - Steam News

Really weird thing to happen before the game is even released. The game previously got delayed and is now being moved to a different team.

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That's not usually a sign of a healthy development cycle.
- Nor of a quality end product.
- Bah what do you mean? They're only losing... all of their institutional knowledge, handing off a complex piece of software to a more junior, less qualified, probably offshore team.
  This is a cause for celebration! Bonuses for the MBA who came up with this idea!
It's so sad when you go back to the early dev diaries on YouTube where the guys who made PA1 are clearly just creating a passion project. And now PDX has turned it into just another one of their DLC treadmill games and introduced a slew of game breaking bugs in the process.
- Yeah I was an early adopter myself, it was my gateway drug into rimworld and dwarf fortress. I stopped playing shortly after they sold the studio
  
  Introversion still exists and wasn't sold, they're making a somewhat similar game now - The Last Starship.
  
  Same here. PA primed me for Rimworld. Never touched it since.
  
  I believe the last pre-Paradox build is still available under Steam Betas.
  It's a damn shame what Paradox did to the game. It turned from a near-perfect sim with excellent optimization and stability into a laggy, buggy mess with loads of DLCs that both fixed and introduced more bugs. So the usual Paradox product, where stability is completely random based on which DLCs you own.
- The first game is still loaded with bugs to this day. I had no faith in a second game, and this news does it no favors.
  
  First game was relatively bug free before paradox bought it. Then once they started pushing them to add DLC content, the bugs started appearing rapidly. It's so transparent exactly what was happening behind the scenes. PDX pushed them to add DLC to recoup their investment, and the deadlines they pushed didn't let the studio implement them properly on top of the existing codebase (which they didn't create with endless DLC in mind) without cutting corners like crazy.
Sounds like what happened to Kerbal Space Program 2… it didn't end well
Well that's a really bad thing to happen right before EA launch.

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