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Anna Koselke

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says "game development runs on optimism" as the industry comes to Highguard's defense following a messy launch: "It is easy to celebrate failure"

Highguard.

Highguard, the new free-to-play shooter from Wildlight Entertainment, hasn't exactly been in the limelight for a good reason the past few days, racking up "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam in hours – but fellow developers are stepping up to the plate in the game's defense.

Just yesterday, Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian Studios lead Swen Vincke said, "I don't like people s***ing on things" as "it's easy to destroy things, it's a lot harder to build them" – a sentiment other devs would apparently likely agree with.

One such dev is Thomas Puha, communications director at Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2. A recent online post from Puha proves as much.

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