Aggrieved Steam reviewers are apt capable denotation that The Callisto Protocol has been having a beauteous achy opening week. However, if you couldn’t archer from the choral cries of unplayable PC show and console bugs, crippled manager and Striking Distance Studios CEO Glen Schofield confirms it himself successful a bid of Twitter replies. Yes, his aspiration to stroke his iconic Dead Space bid retired of the entity had immoderate holes successful it, immoderate stuttering and crashing, but helium maintains that those issues travel from “a damn clerical error.”

“A incorrect record was patched,” Schofield clarifies in different Twitter reply. “Just freakin mistake by idiosyncratic rushing.”

“Rushing” brings to caput Schofield’s erstwhile admittance astir him and his squad moving utmost overtime—“Exhaustion, tired, Covid but we’re working,” helium said. “Lunch, meal working. U bash it origin ya luv it.”—about which he aboriginal apologized to employees for glorifying specified practices. Yet Schofield’s Twitter trolls look to beryllium calling for much of it, demanding accelerated fixes and their wealth back. Striking Distance did not instantly instrumentality Kotaku’s petition for comment.

They could extremity up being satisfied, benignant of. Striking Distance Studios released patches aiming to amended PC stuttering, and framerate issues connected Xbox Series X/S, and portion fans are inactive disgruntled with ray tracing, they tin astatine slightest remainder assured that they person developers, erstwhile again, successful overtime.

“I’ll instrumentality abrogation erstwhile it’s fixed,” Schofield said connected Twitter. “The fans are my priority.”

Game improvement crunch tin beryllium a chickenhearted oregon an ovum successful this way, either borne from unit oregon from responding to it. Both developers and fans privation cleanable games fast, but time, money, and a day’s 24 hr precocious bounds marque achieving that extremity hard oregon unhealthy. I don’t cognize however we alteration taste expectations some successful the workplace and arsenic consumers, but I bash cognize that, portion complaining astir it, you should astatine slightest beryllium benignant and calm portion Striking Distance works connected delivering adjacent more week-one patches.

“Being mean, cynical and acting similar you cognize maine isn’t making it spell immoderate quicker,” Schofield said. “I’d inquire for patience and knowing arsenic we hole this issue. We aren’t blessed astir it either.”