Techland’s founder and CEO, Paweł Marchewka, just lately hosted a Discord AMA with followers of the corporate’s parkour-fueled zombie collection, throughout which he introduced the top of help for Dying Gentle: The Beast. The recreation landed final yr as a standalone launch, regardless of its authentic positioning as an enlargement for Dying Gentle 2.
The Beast just lately bought the Restored Land replace, which allowed gamers to filter the zombies throughout the map and convey civilization again to the world. However now help is ending for The Beast, which Techland by no means deliberate as a recreation the corporate would help long run.
Dying Gentle: The Beast is a whole recreation, and that’s how gamers ought to method it — very similar to Dying Gentle 1 is at this time,” Marchewka mentioned, through Insider Gaming. “We’re not planning substantial new content material for it.”
Marchewka went on to say that The Beast was deliberate as a “full, self-contained recreation from the beginning.” The firm by no means made a dedication to it, however nonetheless put out substantial free updates over the previous yr, together with Restored Land, new weapons, and extra.
“The five-year help mannequin hasn’t labored as effectively for us as we hoped,” Marchewka continued. “We’re an AAA studio. With every new recreation, we wish to ship an unforgettable expertise and push the boundaries of what video games can do.”
The CEO went on to elucidate how supporting a number of video games can impression improvement on the studio’s subsequent launch. “Supporting current video games for years with smaller groups can critically disrupt work on new initiatives,” he mentioned.
“On the similar time, gamers anticipate frequent, substantial, high-quality updates — generally a number of occasions a month, and often for free. With restricted sources, we are able to find yourself disrupting manufacturing and nonetheless disappointing gamers.”
The group will proceed to help Dying Gentle 2, which nonetheless has a bigger group engaged on updates than Dying Gentle ever had. Techland’s subsequent recreation was purported to be its fantasy RPG mission, however that was canceled final yr.
The Xbox One and PS4 variations of The Beast had been additionally canceled earlier this yr. What Techland is engaged on subsequent stays a thriller for now.
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