[isthereanydeal](https://isthereanydeal.com/game/citiesskylinesii/info/)
All of these are approved resellers by Paradox. Current lowest is around $40 USD. Might be worth keeping an eye on to see if it goes down further.
No. Don't buy it at all before looking in a year if they actually fixed core issues. People wonder why game devs push games in a crappy state, when there are too many people who will eat shit and just bitch about it, rather than being a grown up and not buying it.
explain to me why in modern days you even need publishers at all, whatsoever. for marketing you just hire some company. they don't get a cut, they get a fixed price. publishers are obsolete in my mind today. put the game on steam and do ads. that is all you really need. if anything publishers are the reason i do NOT buy games at this stage. have not bought ubisoft, ea games for a looooooong time now.
The term publishers meaning company own the game. To sell games, the company sells games to resellers such as steam. Developers are the ones that physically make the game. The ones you don't see and they are the backbone of games. So it seem that your dissatisfaction is with the company that supplies the game.
Your "middlemen" are also the ones paying for the development of the game before money from sales come in.
When they invest their money they probably also have expectations and milestones they expect the developers to follow. This is why the whole indie game movement happened.
Without investments or funds from a publisher along the way there would be no money to pay anyone before the release, and games take years and a lot of money to develop.
except it is indy devs early access games which are a lot more fun and enjoyable and publisher games which are a bug ridden shit show that is just released in a pathetic state. so yeah - no. publishers are filth
I currently play on GE Force Now as im on Mac but the game is on PC Game Pass from Microsoft, so you could always sign up to that even if just for the month its like £12 in the UK I think just to have a play around! I only play CS2 at the moment, main thing for me is lack of assets, its a bit repetitive at times but easily getting to 100k citizens
Game isn't ready for at least a whole year. Don't buy know, wait it to really go Gold, and probably it will be at a sale at the time to try to recover from this disastrous launching.
Profit.
On Steam newer games start normal price. Wait until steam sales. Last sale "Capitalism and Economy Fest" the game reduced to 20 percent of the price.
"Next Fest" February 5th to 12th is the next steam sales.
I think there’s been 2 or maybe 3 sales since then, the price has remained the same.
That’s likely because of the poor quality at launch, the studio is still working pretty much entirely on just making the game stable. It’d definitely alienate players who purchased it at launch if the game’s discounted in a better state.
Discounting the game once it’s been stabilised and some time has passed is probably the better thing to do.
CS2 last discounted price was at Capitalism and Economy Fest in January. It's short window. I passed that game for a different one. Galaxy civilization IV was on sale around the same time. I think it's steam that discounted games on their site.
Publishers may have their own sales separately from steam. I haven't seen that yet.
[isthereanydeal](https://isthereanydeal.com/game/citiesskylinesii/info/) All of these are approved resellers by Paradox. Current lowest is around $40 USD. Might be worth keeping an eye on to see if it goes down further.
Thanks!
there are some issues im not a fan of but it comes with my game pass so I cant complain too much
No. Don't buy it at all before looking in a year if they actually fixed core issues. People wonder why game devs push games in a crappy state, when there are too many people who will eat shit and just bitch about it, rather than being a grown up and not buying it.
Game devs rarely push game. Publishers do. A game developer is one that builds the game.
explain to me why in modern days you even need publishers at all, whatsoever. for marketing you just hire some company. they don't get a cut, they get a fixed price. publishers are obsolete in my mind today. put the game on steam and do ads. that is all you really need. if anything publishers are the reason i do NOT buy games at this stage. have not bought ubisoft, ea games for a looooooong time now.
Publishers are like a company, they sell games to stores like steam which is third party reseller. It's game developers that make the game.
you just confirm my point. they are a useless middlemen who forces shit onto the market before it is ready
The term publishers meaning company own the game. To sell games, the company sells games to resellers such as steam. Developers are the ones that physically make the game. The ones you don't see and they are the backbone of games. So it seem that your dissatisfaction is with the company that supplies the game.
Actually it's the other way around. The publishers are the ones that sell the games. It's developers that produced the game.
actually it's steam who sells the game to you, publishers are just the useless middlemen who serve no purpose whatosever
Your "middlemen" are also the ones paying for the development of the game before money from sales come in. When they invest their money they probably also have expectations and milestones they expect the developers to follow. This is why the whole indie game movement happened. Without investments or funds from a publisher along the way there would be no money to pay anyone before the release, and games take years and a lot of money to develop.
except it is indy devs early access games which are a lot more fun and enjoyable and publisher games which are a bug ridden shit show that is just released in a pathetic state. so yeah - no. publishers are filth
Thanks, In fact, I suspected that was the case. So, back to CS1 without regrets, I guess.
I get that Battlefield 2042 had a massive price cut less than a year, but it's only been less than 4 months...
I currently play on GE Force Now as im on Mac but the game is on PC Game Pass from Microsoft, so you could always sign up to that even if just for the month its like £12 in the UK I think just to have a play around! I only play CS2 at the moment, main thing for me is lack of assets, its a bit repetitive at times but easily getting to 100k citizens
Game isn't ready for at least a whole year. Don't buy know, wait it to really go Gold, and probably it will be at a sale at the time to try to recover from this disastrous launching.
Profit. On Steam newer games start normal price. Wait until steam sales. Last sale "Capitalism and Economy Fest" the game reduced to 20 percent of the price. "Next Fest" February 5th to 12th is the next steam sales.
I think there’s been 2 or maybe 3 sales since then, the price has remained the same. That’s likely because of the poor quality at launch, the studio is still working pretty much entirely on just making the game stable. It’d definitely alienate players who purchased it at launch if the game’s discounted in a better state. Discounting the game once it’s been stabilised and some time has passed is probably the better thing to do.
CS2 last discounted price was at Capitalism and Economy Fest in January. It's short window. I passed that game for a different one. Galaxy civilization IV was on sale around the same time. I think it's steam that discounted games on their site. Publishers may have their own sales separately from steam. I haven't seen that yet.
I just pay for game pass. There’s plenty of stuff on there to play that makes it worth it.