Cities Skylines 2, the city building game from Colossal Order and Paradox, currently has fewer Steam players than its 2015 predecessor, CS1.
  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I’m playing 2 atm, but it runs like shit on a 3080, I don’t blame anyone for waiting until the performance issues are resolved

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Not exactly surprising when the developers themselves warned of performance issues prior to launching 2. Which, to their credit, was a good thing to do.

    But these days EVERY game has performance issues even on the best hardware. Which means we collectively got burned out on buying yet another poorly performing game.

    Also, 2 apparently misses quite a few features from 1. So it’s pretty much a downgrade when buying it now.

    They can probably fix a few of these issues down the road. Maybe then I’ll actually buy it…

    • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      I gave up on it when they stated their performance goal as “30 fps at 1080p”.

      • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        I know, right? That’s basically saying ‘we’re hoping to be the fastest Lada in Bulgaria”. It’s a goal, sure, but not exactly an impressive one.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    2 years ago

    I never bothered with the second game because the first game was pretty meh. I think I played it for about 20 hours before getting bored and moving on. The game is a glorified traffic simulator.

    • themusicman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Without even being an accurate traffic simulator… Apparently parking made the game not fun, and I’m not surprised - it makes real life not fun either

      • SwampYankee@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It was a much more accurate traffic simulation than anything that came before it, save for maybe SimCity 2013, but that wasn’t worth shit when you only had a single tile smaller than a Skylines tile to work with. The Skylines 2 traffic simulation is improved quite a bit as well - still has its quirks of course.

        • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          SimCity 2013 was definitely worse. Sims in that game don’t have persistent identities: they go ti the nearest available job opening every morning, and they sleep in a different bed every night.

  • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s on gamepass. I installed it played for an hour or two, and un-installed. If I’d paid for it on steam I might have felt obligated to keep playing regardless of how much I was enjoying it. Not so much with gamepass.

      • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        You only get steam credit back though. Who knows when I’ll use that?

        In any case, the game is on gamepass so it’s a moot point.

          • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            2 years ago

            That must be new. Last time I refunded was for street fighter 5 so that would’ve been several years ago.

            Again though, this is a moot point. The game is on gamepass so of course the Steam numbers will be somewhat lower. No one is going to buy the steam version if they have a gamepass sub.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    City skylines 1 on steam deck is grand. Runs very smoothly and some great community controllers for it. Better than desktop imo.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Huh, it seems like it would be annoying to draw out roads and whatnot.

      That said, Cities Skylines 2 doesn’t run well on most people’s computers, hence why the first is still more popular. Fix that and I think people will upgrade.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I honestly might pay full price if I was confident it would work well on my hardware, which is pretty solid mid range (6650XT w/ 5600X). But from what I’ve seen, the experience is pretty mediocre on more powerful hardware, so I’m going to wait for patches.

          I’ll also only buy at full price if it’s near a major holiday, otherwise I won’t have time to play.