Secret Mode has defined why no DLC for Star Wars: Galactic Racer has been introduced but, whereas Zero Firm’s success has not saved its developer from layoffs.
Given how a lot of a success Star Wars: Galactic Racer has been (a lot in order that Lucasfilm plans to keep being ‘flexible’ about which studios it companions with on future video games), you’ll suppose developer Fuse Video games and writer Secret Mode would have already got DLC within the pipeline.
Forward of launch, creative director Kieran Crimmins talked about the group will do ‘some type of DLC’ and Fuse Video games CEO Matt Webster reiterated that after the sport got here out.
A month later, although, and followers have been getting so antsy concerning the lack of DLC information that Secret Mode has needed to clarify why the group nonetheless hasn’t annouced something.
‘We’ve talked about it in plenty of our bulletins relating to hotfixes and the quality-of-life replace, however the builders are persevering with to work on the sport,’ reads a put up by a Secret Mode admin from the official Galactic Racer Discord server (as noticed by fan web site Bespin Bulletin).
‘The rationale why we don’t telegraph plenty of these updates is as a result of we don’t wish to overpromise, so we wish to guarantee any modifications are locked in earlier than we speak about them.’
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Between this and Crimmins’ obscure allusion to DLC, it very a lot feels like whereas Fuse Video games and Secret Mode may need some concepts for substantial post-launch updates, they’ve but to decide to something.
This can be a good strategy because it means they will consider the fan response from gamers and get a greater concept of what kind of DLC they’d wish to see. For instance, no person may’ve predicted the viral sensation that’s rival racer Biddy Blas, so now Fuse Video games is aware of it’s value retaining him round for any future DLC and possibly even giving him an expanded position.
These feedback additionally line up with what Fuse Video games CEO Matt Webster stated shortly after the sport’s launch, when he was questioned on DLC plans in an interview with The Game Business.
‘We’re going to be taught extra within the subsequent 72 hours than we ever can have finished all through the event of this sport,’ stated Webster. ‘Trendy video games and fashionable players count on there to be extensions and enhancements or one thing and we hope to have the ability to do issues like that for this sport. However the true factor is we have to try this in live performance with the group and we don’t have all of the solutions.
‘So, we have to see, we have to replicate, we have to watch, we have to hear, we have to hear, we have to take part along with gamers and that can assist inform a few of the concepts that we’ve bought and it’ll assist decide the place we go subsequent and when.’
Whereas that implies that Galactic Racer DLC isn’t imminent it ought to hopefully imply it’s definitely worth the wait when it does arrive.
Issues aren’t as rosy for the opposite Star Wars hit this 12 months: technique sport Zero Company. After information broke that the majority of developer Bit Reactor had been furloughed (as in put on unpaid leave), indicators pointed to Zero Firm being profitable sufficient for the studio to start rehiring staff.
Writer EA even proudly confirmed the sport had bought a million copies, and a subsequent patch added new tough modifiers alongside a litany of bug fixes, which boded nicely for potential DLC updates.
Sadly, multiple Bit Reactor employees have posted to LinkedIn to say they’ve been let go from the studio. It’s unclear if any of the affected workers had been introduced again after being furloughed or just weren’t requested to return to their roles, with senior environment artist Ryan Lopez solely saying they have been let go ‘after a 3 month furlough.’
Galactic Racer doesn’t have official gross sales figures, however Webster told VGC that issues have been trying ‘wholesome’ in its first couple of weeks.
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