[STEAM] Manor Lords publisher doesn't think devs should be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks" just to regularly update a game

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This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up publisher has defended the strategy game over a post that it thinks espouses an "endless growth" perspective "that causes so much trouble in the games industry." Earlier this year, Manor Lords released into early access, and it did so very successfully, racking up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . But, like many early access games, buzz around it has ***** down a bit, in part because big updates haven't been released too frequently since its release. A post from The Long Dark developer This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up CEO Raphael van Lierop appeared to criticise this very point on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , saying that while they "really love what is here" there's "very little to it" and that it's a "pretty interesting case-study in the pitfalls of Early Access development." Lierop continued, "It launched with a pretty strong base game but without much content. A heavily systems-centric game needs either a range of maps, game modes, or some amount of proc-gen dynamism to keep it fresh. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up

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