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Among Us 2 cancelled. Devs will put all their focus on Among Us 1 instead.
- Thread starter Lord Arcadio
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But not to make it another Culling/Culling2 it's better to work on just the one game, and give it a major overhaul patch when able.
There's nothing that you can do with a sequel that you can't also do via a patch. They can delete the entire game and rebuild it from scratch and still call it Among Us 1.
The only way it's a bad move is they're going to lose out on making a lot of people buy a 2nd version.
Instead they generate a ridiculous amount of good will, get to do everything they were going to do with Among Us 2 anyways, and sell skins even harder which is already the most profitable business model on the market as is.
With enough large updates you can make a new game without ever releasing a new game. The important part is not to split the playerbase.
Totally understandable. This game definitely fits a seasonal model. Also good to just ride on the established install base of this game already.
Hope this works out for them. The game is incredibly popular at the moment, and I hope they can update it often enough before the population drops off or for someone releases something that pulls off the genre better.
Regardless, they hadn't even started working on a sequel until the game took off in popularity these past couple months.
Yeah I hope it's just a case of them remaking it under the hood as an "Update" rather than continuing on with the current Tower of Duct Tape. Even from an exterior perspective I can see some core technical issues that can't just simply be painted-over long-term.
I think this is an awesome move and I really appreciate the devs' decision to support their current playerbase. The game was already such a good value at $5, that I would be happy to pay more to support the large amount of work they'll be doing to add more content to Among Us 1.
I was really confused when I found out they were even considering a sequel at this stage.
Surely with the numbers this game is pulling, the path of least resistance was to drip feed more content into it and keep streamers coming back without a major shake up in the status quo... there's a reason there's no 'Fortnite Battle Royale 2'.
Glad someone on the dev team agrees with me.
Surely with the numbers this game is pulling, the path of least resistance was to drip feed more content into it and keep streamers coming back without a major shake up in the status quo... there's a reason there's no 'Fortnite Battle Royale 2'.
Glad someone on the dev team agrees with me.
I mean they had been working on Among Us 2 for a long while. Among Us 1 has been out for 2 years, it's only in the last 2 weeks did it blow up.
Nah, plenty of people (myself included) are playing the hell out of Fall Guys. It isn't going anywhere.
Folks need to chill with this "there can only be one" nonsense.
This.
The reason to do this is to sell dlc to your current base of players instead of releasing a sequel and hoping the base transfers over.
Much better than splitting the market between two games.
Given the meteoric rise in the past few weeks, I think the devs are aware that they do have a flash in the pan and now trying to maintain a manageable player base to keep them afloat, since they can't rely on the same thing over and over again. I don't think Innersloth is so big that they need Among Us to be this huge.
Smart move. Who knows when a sequel would be finished and if it would have the same popularity. Instead they could extend the popularity in the ones people have already invested in.
I was thinking about what improvements they could make in a sequel.
Personally, just add a few more (bigger) maps, some more costumes, more different tasks to do, maybe one or two new Imposter abilities, and improve the online stuff.
Okay, that's actually quite a lot, but I feel people would expect a lot more in a sequel.
This way they can just keep the art style, which is lovely.
Personally, just add a few more (bigger) maps, some more costumes, more different tasks to do, maybe one or two new Imposter abilities, and improve the online stuff.
Okay, that's actually quite a lot, but I feel people would expect a lot more in a sequel.
This way they can just keep the art style, which is lovely.
I know nothing about this game but I'm a high school teacher and my students keep telling me they want the whole class to play this together.
This is the right move. Among Us has become massive. Its better to update your existing game , than make a new one and expect everyone to buy it.
They can make a new game and just replace the old client thru Steam/Appstore..etc. They don't need to be tied to the old code.
They can make a new game and just replace the old client thru Steam/Appstore..etc. They don't need to be tied to the old code.
Middle and high school teacher here, it would be a riot. But also may end certain friendships and relationships forever. I'd totally do it if I were a science/humanities/English teacher doing any sort of unit that had to do with human society or psychology.
They're right to not split their playerbase, but if it's more difficult to work on the old codebase, why not continue working on the new one and just publish it as a massive update to the original game? Other developers have definitely done this before.
