I feel sorry for colossal order. They're clearly some very passionate people who's dreams have been ruined by their own executives and paradox.

I've heard of developers choosing to make new games, but I didn't know games could choose to be made by new developers! Inspiring!

Iceflake Studio's portfolio does not exactly inspire confidence, feels like this is the end of cities skylines. What a shame.

Not surprising at all.

I found a copy of the game online because I wanted to try it out before I considered buying it (I had a feeling I wouldn't like it). I got maybe an hour of playtime before I stopped playing. The new pretty skin doesn't do enough to make the game worth it.

Very corporate thinking. 'We have the IP for the name of a game with a dedicated following. That's more important than who makes the game, right?'

Lol, Cities Skylines is officially dead then. Seems like the team didn't really know how to make it without Karoliina Korppoo already, but I have zero faith in Paradox/IceFlake making it on their own. The core of Cities Skylines was always the expertise in transit/city simulation developed from Cities In Motion.

I'm not too hopeful. The new devs' portfolio doesn't make it seem like they have enough experience to handle a big project like this.

It's sad because while Colossal Order definitely messed up the launch (though I'm still unsure whether it's their fault or Paradox — probably both), they knew what makes city builders good. I feel like two years in, they've finally handled all the faults of the base game, and were ready to build upon it and release new content.

I have to be optimistic because, like I said, the base game is now pretty good to build upon, but the new devs don't inspire confidence.

The size of their staff going from 1 to 2 made no sense to me with how much grander scale of a simulation they spoke of. It seemed unrealistic before launch and to this day they still seem to be struggling with it. Really screwed the pooch. Paradox for being penny pinchers for what could have become their Civilization in regards to beloved hyper geeky but high selling type of game. Colossal Order for not growing up and then trying to play off criticisms with how they're a hunky dory scrappy small indie developer that can't staff up for the AAA scope sequel of a hit of a game with major amounts of DLC. Self infantalization are for your early 20s

Totally unaware this was a thing.

This fucking sucks because I really like Cities: Skylines II. It's a fine sequel and I much prefer it to the original. Damn shame it got review bombed. I never had issues and it runs great on my machine.

I’d love to see a Cities game that focuses on framework and provides a way for micro transactions to pay out mod developers.