Cities Skylines 2 - Indefinitely Delayed

Cities Skylines 2 received a roadmap progress update today and it's not good news. Indefinite timelines on future patches and key gameplay issues, Ultimate Edition DLC delays, and a consistent, indefinite delay on Cities Skylines 2 Console Edition. While there are some specifc mentions of tools coming to the game, these largely exist in multiplayer, and the crutial asset editor remains challenging for Colossal Order to implement. Thanks for watching this Cities Skylines 2 update!

CONTENTS
0:00 - Cities Skylines 2 Progress & Release Update
0:14 - It's not good news...
0:36 - Ultimate Edition DLC Delayed Again
1:47 - What is Colossal Order doing?
2:58 - Console Edition Indefinite Delays
3:58 - The Next Straw: Hotels & Tourism
4:25 - More to come, detailers!
5:10 - Taking time to find solutions
6:30 - The Doubled-Edged DLC
7:20 - Happy Birthday Cities 2

SOURCE
CITIES SKYLINES 2 - AN UPDATE TO THE RELEASE SCHEDULE

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[DanielPizarroReporter]

I can't believe it's been almost a year since CS2 first came out! I've been holding off on buying it for a while, and it's disappointing there's so much work still needed to fix it.

[SlamTiltBS]

The fact that there wasn't a custom asset editor built during development of the game proves that whomever manages this product do not understand what they are doing. Especially with the success of CS1.

[lucass]

"We don't have any news beyond what we shared last time."

I wish I could tell my boss that when I didn't do any fucking work 🤦😄

[oscarkrohn]

This also makes me extremely curious about the promised ”region packs”, they haven’t said anything more about it in like a year

[michaelcook]

Welcome to modern gaming where you buy the game on release and it's finally playable 2-3 years later.

[lunarlake]

Iam a software developer, not a game developer, but project structure ist not much different. This gives me the following impression:
1. developer team must be very small
2. the game is probaly rotten to the core, the groundwork on architecture and tech stack seems to be deeply flawed
3. there is no budget left

There must be incredible technical debt. I recently played the game after 8 months again and nothing really changed. All the major issues still exist. My guess: this game cant be fixed anymore really. They will maybe bring out a few DLC´s in the future and will internally decide to make Cities Skylines 3 or some major overhaul of Cities 2. You cannot build upon a rotten foundation.

[atis]

Ok, I'll indefinitely delay my purchase of the game. Time to put an other 1k hour into CS1.

[geofff.]

I guess I'll pick this up four years from now with all its DLC for $15 in a Humble Bundle.

[fidel]

I really made a mistake here. I knew the game was not finished when I purchased it on release day, I thought they'd fix it in 3 months post-release but I was wrong.

I should've not purchased it at all and waited 3 years to get it on a massive discount and maybe MAYBE it'd actually be worth it by then.

I'm just happy that they're not further delaying it by focusing on console port.

[Cifer]

This game is still the most disappointing game purchase of my life :/
The failure of the game isn't even the worst part, it's the fact it destroyed the creation of most the YouTube content for Cities Skylines 1

[Lannachi]

To be completely fair, this is what the community has demanded by the response to the last DLC they tried to release. Why would they release another DLC now if they will get the same backlash? We the CS2 players have told them not to release DLCs until the game is fixed so I don't see how we can be mad at them for doing what we asked them to do. Same thing goes for the console edition - we told them very clearly that releasing a product when it isn't ready isn't going to fly and now they aren't releasing a product until it's ready and we are acting shocked by this somehow.

[scottmorton]

I can't believe they're still charging for the game like it was a newly released triple AAA product.

[katarabsian]

Ominous feeling that Paradox gonna halt development on it completely.

[carlstevenwilletts]

The real problem this game has is that when it's finally fixed (in a year or two's time), I don't think many will care. Full credit to the developers for attempting to fix it, but they have a huge job to get people interested in it again.

[JyrgenHærensøn]

Something that I find Paradox has really done a good job with sweeping under the rug is the indefinite delay of the console release, which was pushed from the actual release to the end of Q1, then to the end of Q3, and now no actual release date.

[OJ_]

As someone on console who *actually* still wants to play this game even after all of the crap that's happened, it really irks me that not only is it not on console a year after "releasing", but that there are still likely some people who still have this game on preorder even after it's been unplayable for over a year now.

I'm really disappointed in Colossal and all them and I'm starting to wonder if this game'll ever come out for console users like me.

[brilhasti]

Welp, who'll be the next good good city builder I guess. The door is open, anyone. Except for you, Electronic Arts.

[NathanWind]

Crazy how CS followed a similar path to SimCity. An amazing, beloved game that completely sht the bed on the bigger and better sequel. To the point where it may have killed the franchise.

[Spealer]

One of the most disappointing rollouts of a game. Sad to see the publisher couldn't wait to release it around now, instead of 2023. It's been all damage control for 2024.

[ericdengler]

Good thing they flew in all the content creators to tell them it’s still delayed, and no progress has been made been made.