Amid Risk of Rain 2 DLC blowback, the roguelike's creators say "it sucks" for fans and the new devs at Gearbox, but those new devs say fixes are coming and this is "just the beginning"

Risk of Rain 2 Seekers of the Storm DLC screenshots of enemies and characters.

After selling the Risk of Rain IP to Gearbox and seeing the new caretakers stumble with the buggy Risk of Rain 2 DLC Seekers of the Storm, the original creators at Hopoo games feel "bittersweet" about the state of their roguelike. 

I reached out to Hopoo co-founder Paul Morse for comment on the Seekers of the Storm launch, and he directed me to a joint statement posted by fellow co-founder Duncan Drummond. "This is definitely a bittersweet situation," Drummond said in a tweet thread. "It's great to see new content for the game, but it's hard to see growing pains of the new team in real time.