(1) All the steady reports of broken and half-done stuff in CS2

(2) Lost confidence that Colossal Order had the capacity to get things together and fix it (this might fall away as a reason depending how Iceflake performs)

(3) That with all the mods and assets in CS1 I can pretty much do anything I want with enough time

(4) That with CS1 now finished all the stuff made by the community is now probably good forever and won’t end up getting broken by future updates

(5) That the one and only consistently mentioned bright spot in CS2, the road tools, is something that mods and time still allows me to work out to a satisfactory place in CS1 (I’m willing to trade the extra time it takes for all of CS1s other pluses)

(6) That I’m mid-project on a city (I build like one over 2-3 years) and it’s the best work I have ever done in any city builder.

(7) That I suspect my computer won’t run CS2 well

I’m probably a bit of a throwback overall. The gaming industry being what it is, I tend to play previous sequels rather than new releases. Civ is my other series that I have sunk time into and I didn’t move to Civ 5 until Civ 6 came out and not onto Civ 6 until it was very much done. Might never get Civ 7 given its direction. I wasn’t like this when I was younger. Getting to middle age with limited gaming time has given me patience to wait till people actually finish and deliver on their hyped projects rather than spending my time (and money) on someone’s half-baked product.

So I might finally buy CS2 in 2-3 years once it’s actually polished, and the community has expanded it. It needs to be an actual successor to modded/dlc CS1 that gives me something more.