why is the sushi-dlc so bad?

[Blutwurst]

i liked pizza and bakery. shelter was kinda lame, i just coudlnt get into it. so i was hoping for the sushi dlc (first time real animated people in this game...! this has to be good).
but after all this negative reviews: phew, i dont dare to buy it. what happened?
this game was all time great. never heared a real bad word about it. and now this!?

if this is the new standart, what do we have to expect from cooking sim 2?

[Carnick]

It's published by Playway. Check out their catalog, they produce tons of cheap, buggy shovelware "simulator" games. They have a few flagship titles, namely Cooking Simulator, Car Mechanic Simulator, and Thief Simulator, all of which had charm despite being low budget and janky.

Most likely the talented developers move on from Playway after a hit, leaving inexperienced people to handle DLC in their place. That and we know they're working on Cooking Simulator 2, which is occupying most of their resources. Sushi was likely a low effort project to bridge the gap, but it's just serving as a bad advertisement for the sequel and scaring longtime fans away. Especially since they haven't fixed the majority of longtime bugs.

[我重生了，现在我是社畜]

This DLC is really disappointing. The development team spent almost a year creating a game with a lot of bugs and unreasonable aspects, which is completely inferior to the previous level

[Blutwurst]

Originally posted by Carnick:

It's published by Playway. Check out their catalog, they produce tons of cheap, buggy shovelware "simulator" games. They have a few flagship titles, namely Cooking Simulator, Car Mechanic Simulator, and Thief Simulator, all of which had charm despite being low budget and janky.

Most likely the talented developers move on from Playway after a hit, leaving inexperienced people to handle DLC in their place. That and we know they're working on Cooking Simulator 2, which is occupying most of their resources. Sushi was likely a low effort project to bridge the gap, but it's just serving as a bad advertisement for the sequel and scaring longtime fans away. Especially since they haven't fixed the majority of longtime bugs.

playway and ultimate games are publisher you should avoid, thats well known. besides this 3 games you mentioned most of their games is just poor, unpolished crap. house flipper was kinda good as well.
i deleted all playway games from my wishlist a long time ago. it is just pointless having them for 5 years and propably longer there while they were all stated as "coming soon".

but cooking sim was never a disappointment in my opinion, besides that akward shelter thing...

[Carnick]

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

Originally posted by Carnick:

It's published by Playway. Check out their catalog, they produce tons of cheap, buggy shovelware "simulator" games. They have a few flagship titles, namely Cooking Simulator, Car Mechanic Simulator, and Thief Simulator, all of which had charm despite being low budget and janky.

Most likely the talented developers move on from Playway after a hit, leaving inexperienced people to handle DLC in their place. That and we know they're working on Cooking Simulator 2, which is occupying most of their resources. Sushi was likely a low effort project to bridge the gap, but it's just serving as a bad advertisement for the sequel and scaring longtime fans away. Especially since they haven't fixed the majority of longtime bugs.

playway and ultimate games are publisher you should avoid, thats well known. besides this 3 games you mentioned most of their games is just poor, unpolished crap. house flipper was kinda good as well.
i deleted all playway games from my wishlist a long time ago. it is just pointless having them for 5 years and propably longer there while they were all stated as "coming soon".

but cooking sim was never a disappointment in my opinion, besides that akward shelter thing...

Oh yeah, forgot House Flipper. I loved the first one, but even that has been getting worse steadily, and the sequel was a disappointment.

[Voltz]

Was all time great? You liked Pizza DLC? Makes me wonder your actual playtime. Firstly, Pizza DLC has a bug that bricks your game at a certain point and was left in that state. Second, we asked for one thing for Pizza where we could pick which ingredients we offer for pizzas and it took them over a year to even address it and they changed it so we could pick variants of pizza which still required you to offer 100s of ingredients that you don't want offered. Lastly, This company has a long history of releasing halfazzed DLC.....they will patch technical stuff in the first couple weeks and they just move on leaving DLC in broken states. If something has a lot of attention like the Pizza DLC request did.....then they will address it but they couldn't even handle that competently.

[moka]

Pizza and bakery dlc were a lot of fun. But the bugs from pizza dlc stopped me from buying sushi dlc at release. Reading the reviews we dodged a bullet.

[Blutwurst]

Originally posted by Voltz:

Was all time great? You liked Pizza DLC? Makes me wonder your actual playtime. Firstly, Pizza DLC has a bug that bricks your game at a certain point and was left in that state. Second, we asked for one thing for Pizza where we could pick which ingredients we offer for pizzas and it took them over a year to even address it and they changed it so we could pick variants of pizza which still required you to offer 100s of ingredients that you don't want offered. Lastly, This company has a long history of releasing halfazzed DLC.....they will patch technical stuff in the first couple weeks and they just move on leaving DLC in broken states. If something has a lot of attention like the Pizza DLC request did.....then they will address it but they couldn't even handle that competently.

well, i remember having a bug with the dough machine. this was fixed. but i enjoyed the pizza dlc. it got pretty stressfull later on, thats true. thats why i was one of them who asked more than just once for the menu update. but it took a long time and the menu update came after ive already quit playing cooking sim. i didnt play since so cannot say anything about the menu update. so i have to believe your words. and its sad if its true..

[r0mina]

I can understand the frustration of many players. The Sushi DLC is simply very buggy and since the last patch my pizza save no longer works properly because I can no longer put the pizza in the oven. I've played all the DLC so far and I've never noticed such extreme bugs as everyone says, of course there were always smaller errors but not as extreme as many write. Unfortunately, sushi just tops it all off. What's there is fun. But the bugs just don't make the game much fun at the moment. Lags, game crashes and recipes that are not as feasible as they are in the recipe book. What works is fun, but because of the bugs I would recommend everyone to wait a little longer until something more has been fixed. Unfortunately, it now seems to be normal for developers to bring their games onto the market buggy and unfinished. Very sad.

[Cheers Luv!]

This dlc has been rushed and made in less than a year by a team that is in a decline(by who's decision I will not say to not get in trouble). 90% of the original cooking simulator 1 crew is gone so this is what you get.

[Hellhound]

Originally posted by Cheers Luv!:

This dlc has been rushed and made in less than a year by a team that is in a decline(by who's decision I will not say to not get in trouble). 90% of the original cooking simulator 1 crew is gone so this is what you get.

Really sad to read. But this reflects the development. The first part is very good. See the ratings. And with every DLC the ratings got worse and the Sushi DLS scored the worst.

I just wonder how the second part will be realized at all with such a development.

[shadejh]

Indeed many bugs like the other DLC and even starting game. But I'm happy that they work on that. Very shortly after the release they published some corrections, two the same days.
I really enjoy the game even with the frustrating bugs. Perhaps just because I trust the devs to publish more and more update.

[🖤omegamäään Ω]

what can I say, I love the playway games, I wrote many reviews about their cooking sim franchise and game got better with every DLC, many ways to play it, and all DLCs were very funny very good settings with pizza, cookies, shelter is great, but that sushi thing is very crappy, sorry so say, but you feel it that they wanted to build a bridge to wait for CS2. lets do a small dlc, no efford, too many bugs. first time I really hate what they did, and remember I am a big fan of their games especially cooking sim. very disappointing, but playway got worse year by year, 3-4 good games but all others are silly and full of bugs. sad to write that cause CS is the game I played most time on steam here

[Hellhound]

I know it's hard as a developer. But I wonder how the developers can and are allowed to release such poor quality. The last patch has made the game even more unplayable. Especially with an upcoming Cooking Simulator 2 release, this is a disaster. I am afraid that there will be no release or it will just be thrown on the market like the last DLCs.

Release the next titles as early access. Unfortunately, it has been proven more than once that the developers can't release a game without such a test phase. It is not negative or a step backwards. The devs will even take the (remaining) community and can fix the bugs together. But the developers are not throwing an unfinished product to the customers.

[General Rubbish]

Originally posted by Hellhound:

I know it's hard as a developer. But I wonder how the developers can and are allowed to release such poor quality. The last patch has made the game even more unplayable. Especially with an upcoming Cooking Simulator 2 release, this is a disaster. I am afraid that there will be no release or it will just be thrown on the market like the last DLCs.

This. All of this. I was very excited for the Sushi DLC, and while it was very rough around the edges on release day, it was still actually playable unlike the current live version as of writing. It's been a completely botched launch, and the devs are just making everything worse where one thing fixed breaks five more in the process, and several hotfixes later it's unplayable. If this is any indication of what to expect of CS2 on release day I'm very concerned.

[L_Lucifer]

I can't even cook rice in sushi dlc