Paradox Warned Us That Cities: Skylines 2’s Rocky Launch, But Does That Excuse It?

These days, I'm extremely wary about buying anything on the day it releases, for fear that it will need weeks or even months of patching before it works properly (I greatly admire Vlad's resolve in waiting a year before playing Baldur's Gate 3). Usually, when something like this happens, a lot of the anger stems from the fact that the developers or publishers went ahead and released the game, pretending that nothing was wrong. The first anyone would hear about performance issues would be when they sat down and played the game for themselves.