Don’t count on the development team behind Manor Lords ballooning into a big operation, no matter how much fans ask for more content. For starters, one person was in charge of the medieval strategy game–Greg Styczeń. On top of that, publisher Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender noted “that’s just fundamentally not the way things work.”
Bender opened up to PC Gamer about how fans are already asking for “faster updates” for Manor Lords, which put up huge numbers on Steam when it launched late last month. That led to someone chiming in that the developer should just add more workers. But that won’t happen, according to Bender.
“The best growth is very slow,” Bender said. “It’s keeping the core vision intact. It’s the importance of Greg and his work process. And so, as a result, people are going to be clamoring [for updates], and I think that’s just virtually guaranteed. There’s no pace of updates that would not result in people clamoring for more, and would not result in a bunch of people saying the ideal solution is to just hire 50 people.”