And Jałowiec notes that although the game is single-player centric, “we made sure the co-op mode is more enjoyable than ever by adding dynamic co-op challenges that appear throughout the game. The team “made it shareable and social”, despite the game being singleplayer-centric : The addition of a photo mode after release helped players share their coolest moments in DL2. For example, just the V1.8 update from last December has over 100 improvements and fixes, and the team also launched the $10 ‘Bloody Ties’ story DLC, as well as free ‘Chapter 2’ story DLC. They fixed and improved a gigantic amount of content, GaaS-style: When I went to the Steam news update page, I was surprised by both the amount and intensity of updates from the team. The company even added color grading options, for those who dug the more drab palette seen in pre-release E3 showcases. The team prioritized player-suggested improvements : after “constantly monitoring online chatter, Steam reviews and messages in our own channels”, Techland “introduced significant changes to enemy behavior in the first months after the release, making them scarier and more challenging.” So - genuine gameplay shifts and balancing, based on player feedback. That’s up 185% week on week, and the best CCU number since about a month after launch. A comment on the above '1 year anniversary’ YouTube video from a player says: “While other game studios can't even produce steady content for their live-service games, Techland here creates a steady amount of content to their single player titles.”Īnd as it happens, Techland’s Maciej Jałowiec wrote a LinkedIn post about the game’s anniversary, noting that the game reached 22,000 CCU (simultaneous users) on Steam back on February 12th, 2023. And the team just confirmed the whole franchise has now topped 30 million units, wow.īut it’s interesting to drill down on what the Techland team has been doing since launch. We all know that Techland’s post-apocalyptic first-person action RPG Dying Light 2 launched with a bang in early 2022 - selling 5 million units in its first month.
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