As a longtime city builder fan: this shit is downright depressing.
I put ungodly amounts of time into every SimCity game that was ever made. Down to the GameBoy versions. It’s a genre I love. So, naturally, I was very sad to see SimCity die.
When the first Skylines launched, I was skeptical - but eventually grew to love it. It’s pretty much the only viable game in the genre anyway, so I was willing to give it a shot.
When they launched Skylines II, they pretty much did everything wrong. They even warned players beforehand that performance would suck. Which was not comforting. When it launched like a lead balloon, I stayed far away.
So, what could have been a decent sequel to a decent game turned out to be a complete failure of their own making. And as a result, it’ll likely kill this genre entirely. So, fuck them in the neckhole for knowingly launching a flawed product.