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The developer of 2025 surprise indie "friendslop" darling Peak is asking players to be a little more gracious to the studio when requesting updates. In response to a tweet saying developer Landfall has a "lazy dev cycle," Landfall's official account clapped back: "Neither us or [co-developer] Aggro Crab are live service studios, any update is a bonus not a right." This sparked via GamesRadar (the original offending tweet is no longer visible), which reports that this comes in the wake of "Landfall Day," Landfall's annual bevy of announcements on April 1, during which an exceedingly silly April Fools' Day feature that has players kicking each other off mountains instead of helping them climb up was revealed. While most replies are excited about this, the inciting reply was less than thrilled: "Y'all are mad at Landfall for not releasing a game, I'm mad at Landfall for their lazy dev cycle for Peak when they could be doing so much more with it considering they're ending development of it this year," they wrote. PEAK has had sooo many updates tho! Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios, any update is a bonus not a right. In response, Landfall's official account didn't hold

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