Former Dying Light lead says long-term game support "builds the community trust" and is also great for sales: "The game will give back"

Dying Light The Beast: A screenshot of Kyle Crane in the upcoming game. .

Continued updates and post-launch support is a big reason why the Dying Light franchise stayed relevant during a seven-year gap in releases, its former franchise director Tymon Smektala says.

While it might seem like an obvious concept, it's one that developer Techland didn't properly consider in the early days of the franchise. The Dying Light veteran said as much at a Digital Dragons panel attended by GamesRadar+, explaining that the team's original post-launch plan was "actually quite limited, because we wanted to release the game, respond maybe to some potential bugs [...], and then focus on the release of the two DLCs for that quarter."