Manor Lords has impressed many players. Other developers also paid attention to the project's release. Some of them are offended by how users perceive the new product
Manor Lords recently launched in Steam Early Access. The project is positioned as a medieval urban strategy with large-scale battles and developed systems of economics and public life.
Manor Lords received a lot of attention even before release. The developer is the Slavic Magic studio, but it consists of one creator. Greg Styczeń started developing the game about 6-7 years ago – for a long time it was at the hobby level, i.e. It's not about a “full-time job.” After launching in 2020 to raise funding through Patreon and receiving an Epic MegaGrant in 2021, he began outsourcing some of his work to third-party specialists. , which offends some developers.
CEO of Crate Entertainment studio Arthur Bruno, which created the city-planning simulator Farthest Frontier, in a conversation with PC Gamer expressed irritation about receiving specific reviews.
The fact is that there are people who, for some reason, decided that Farthest Frontier is being developed by a “huge team”, although in fact it consists of seven people, and they use the project of a “single developer” as an example – Manor Lords :
“For some reason people think that there are 60 people working on Farthest Frontier, i.e. the whole [Crate Entertainment] team [thinks] we're so slow and Manor Lords is being developed by one guy—it's driving me crazy. And then you look at the credits of [Manor Lords], and it turns out that the team that worked on it is even larger than ours.”
Bruno asks you to think: is this very different? “single developer” from their studio if he “hires a bunch of contractors.”
Farthest Frontier also joked: “I'm going to start telling people that I'm a solo developer with just a few co-workers helping me out.”
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Cover author: Slavic Magic, Hooded Horse. Image source: steamcommunity.com