As mentioned on of the bigger YTers that produce Cities:skyline content provide a response to the new
A lot of the video is him reading the forum post that details the split.
He added some thoughts however
- IceFlake Studios has a very small game catalog on steam, though they do have one survivor type game.
- Colossal order has not done a very good job at rolling out patches, they don't even have the console version of the game out two years ago, and still no console.
- People have abandoned the game, and the publisher may be looking to inject new life and a different perspective.
- IceFlake studio is basically looking to hire an entire team, so updates after the ones in the pipeline will come to a screeching halt.
As I ruminate on this news, it feels like the publisher had little choice, but I think the game itself is fundamentally broken. They wanted a simulator game that went down to each sim living in the city, I remember a lot of the performance issues was related to the game drawing teeth and other things on each sim.
tbh, I think this could be death-knell of the game. Fans have been waiting, hoping and being patient, but the publisher is now telling its players to be patient yet again. The game came out in 2023 may be asking for more time, may be asking too much at this point
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