YMS
Pro: This looks exactly like the original Dungeon Keeper that I loved. Contra: This looks exactly like a game from the 90s.
The preview builds for reviewers and streamers had serious performance issues, then they warned the public about serious performance issues, and then the release version has serious performance issues. Yes, sounds like they just forgot to press some switch and the fix that once and forever solves all performance issues is scheduled to arrive today.
As rikudou said, in the context of “The dev of X never anticipated this success and it being a long-term project even after release”, the dev is the company. And for the company, the CEO is the one who has to have a plan about the success of their projects and the future commitment to old products.
And as I said, in such a small company the CEO is not someone crunching numbers, restructuring departments and having meetings with partners all over the world all day. They are pretty much one of the dev team.
I don’t think it’s the passport thing. The differences between European passports are minor, so in that matter you surely could accept all EU nationalities. If you really want the best ones, then Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland are among the ones that bring you the farthest in the world, and those are not in the list, while Greece and Norway are less powerful passports, and the USA, Canada and Australia even less, and all of them are in the list.
https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
Of course it could be one or multiple specific countries they want you to travel, but chances for that are low. Clearance sounds much more likely.
Not having 60 fps might be an issue for a shooter or anything that is built on fast reactions, but it doesn’t really sound like an issue in a city builder.
I didn’t read it, so I didn’t share it initially, but this was the article I saw earlier:
https://www.vox.com/2021/5/10/22429240/facebook-prompt-users-read-articles-before-sharing
No. There are studies about that, see e.g. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/misinformation-desk/202212/study-few-people-read-what-they-share for a more recent one. That’s also why Facebook, Twitter & Co at various times implemented various features trying to push you reading the stuff you post.