• jorp@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yes because it’s a new game, putting all the features they developed in the previous base game and years of DLC would take them a long time. This is how software development works. They don’t just have everything feature toggled off…

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      4 months ago

      You make it sound like they start from scratch with every new game.

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        4 months ago

        Many core mechanics are different in each game, and even if they kept the code identical for the DLC mechanics the bulk of the work is asset creation, balancing, etc.

        There’s no universe in which you’re right