![]() After the game was delayed a third time in late October, senior game designer Andrzej Zawadzki and others reported being harassed over the news. We saw this exact scenario play out last year with Cyberpunk 2077. So some Dying Light 2 fans apparently turned to hurling abuse at the game’s developers, and now Techland is trying to win them back, including with a short new teaser to tide them over until the studio is finally ready to announce more. But the game never got a firm release date, and early last year Techland announced it would be delayed indefinitely. A hands-off demo I saw even teased that it might have some interesting world-building going on beyond the standard zombie-survival hijinks. Yet some of the biggest studios and game publishers continue catering to these hyper-online, super-fickle “fans,” because they are also the ones who will spread the E3 marketing gospel on social media and private chats, berate the non-believers, and stand ready to launch a harassment campaign at a moment’s notice if the review scores don’t go as hoped.ĭying Light 2 was first revealed during Microsoft’s press conference at E3 2018, three years after the release of the first game. A certain segment of gaming fans love a developer up until they’re bombarding them with death threats because a game was delayed or, god forbid, had the wrong ending. We’ve seen this play out dozens of times before. ![]() “Normalising this crap or playing it for laughs makes the industry worse for everyone,” wrote GamesI editor Brendan Sinclair on Twitter today.
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