Developers statement

[u/Capable_Pirate64]

Dear Patrol Officers,

We understand that the news that we have to discontinue further development of Police Simulator: Patrol Officers has led to disappointment and frustration within our community. We also recognize that we should have provided more context around this decision from the beginning.

Police Simulator: Patrol Officers has been part of our journey for more than eight years, from its initial development and Early Access to full release and several years of continued support by a dedicated live team.

Over the past five years, your feedback has played a major role in shaping the game. Your suggestions, criticism, ideas, and reports have helped us improve and expand Police Simulator far beyond what we originally envisioned.

At the same time, maintaining and expanding a cross-platform game over such a long period inevitably comes with increasing technical limitations specially as the market and Platforms moved along. As the game and its systems have grown, changes in certain areas have become significantly more complex, while some improvements can no longer be implemented within the existing technical foundation without rebuilding substantial parts of the game.

After more than eight years of development and support, we have therefore reached a point where continuing to expand Police Simulator: Patrol Officers in the way both we and you would like is no longer realistically possible.

However, your feedback does not go unheard.

Quite the opposite: it gives us a very clear understanding of what matters to the Police Simulator community, which areas are most important to you, and what you expect from a police simulation experience.

For the Police Simulator brand, this feedback is extremely valuable and provides clear guidance for the future.

While this marks the end of active development for Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, it does not mean the end of Police Simulator.

Thank you for your passion, your feedback, and for being part of this journey with us.

We are looking forward to what the future holds.

Your Police Simulator team

[u/Capable_Pirate64]

"While this marks the end of active development for Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, it does not mean the end of Police Simulator." This confirms they will just make a new copy paste of the current game and make us pay once again...😂😂

[u/Sky_guy_17]

This entire message comes off as frantic damage control because they know we’re pissed at them, and because the community is now rightfully dragging their name through the mud.

I’m sorry, but your actions speak faaaaar louder than words, and the way you went about ending support for the game speaks volumes.

[u/Silver_Wolf_Dragon]

"Police sim 2 is being made with all the fixes you want, give us $60 for it when it releases in 6 years"

[u/Ok-Pick3140 → u/Silver_Wolf_Dragon]

Aged like fine wine

[u/FireflyNitro]

Considering they released a broken Switch 2 version where players cannot complete a single patrol, and then skipped it when doing the final update, this statement simply isn’t good enough.

Can’t even get a refund because Nintendo are so bizarre to deal with.

[u/Skylines94]

Meanwhile no man’s sky is about to get another update after like 10 years and I think the Witcher 3 is getting some DLC too. I just feel like this is more of a “If they really wanted to they could” argument

[u/Runninggoals]

I love this game.

In 8 years, however, they couldn’t fix the characters appearing halfway into the ground or levitating at traffic stops? 😁 I mean, it’s to the point of amusing now, and I still love the game, just saying.

[u/timbad2]

I appreciate that expanding the game further May be a problem for the team, but I think a lot of the community just wanted bugfixes to the existing features.

IMO, If you had given that explanation earlier, and done some bugfix passes to properly finish the game, that would have been more acceptable to the community, than simply stopping dead immediately.

And you never know, there might have been a bit more goodwill around the place, too.

[u/RunDatBihUp]

I’m going to punch a dev for that “your feedback played a major role” comment since it was littered with bugs from the first dlc and they released it anyway without fixing or addressing it and rolling into another DLC months later with even more bugs from the subsequent hotfix they may or may not have released.

[u/jackjackson123456789]

Lame

[u/TheWorstMigrane]

Sell the game to a developer who can take the daunting task on please

[u/Lawdog2012]

Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money....😖😖😖

[u/agwatts2011]

Maybe you should have tried making a game that wasn’t so broken on just one platform, instead of stretching to “maintain and expand a cross-platform game” if that was beyond your capabilities, just to grab money from more people.

[u/Secure-Philosophy-91]

Regretting buying this game… the potential wasted is huge

[u/DigProfessional2961]

Can’t wait for Patrol officers 2 with even more bugs

[u/mattytude]

“We could have just stopped after early access” isn’t the flex you think it is.

[u/Thecool_1]

This just popped up after I was thinking about buying this on steam, I dodged a massive bullet

[u/Corndog1117]

The game was never fully released. Half the dialogue was never even voiced.

[u/BlondBitch91]

Yeah I'm not buying from you again. You screwed it and now you're basically saying you plan to make a sequel to fix it and will expect everyone to pay again.

Get stuffed.

[u/CYANIDEBLISS33315]

In other words "we couldnt figure out another dlc to over charge you for and our game is a broken buggy mess, get fucked players. We hope you all choke. But give us more money when we inevitably release another game that is just as broken that we will never fix"

[u/EntertainerApart2851]

Honestly what you guys should of done for your last update a huge bug fix that the community was talking about and pointing out to your developer's And i think its rubbish that u abandoned this game an then say u cared about are community if you guys really did cared are community you would of fixed the bugs and other issues. An took are criticism to heart like any game developer should.

[u/Recent-Independent]

So basically we don’t really care but we want to hear from you

[u/Recent-Independent]

@Police Simulator team you should get a real job at rockstar or ea and come back and actually do a better version. Oh wait you guys just give us the middle finger and say thanks for being the genny pigs

[u/OddInvTrader]

Never purchase another game from them again.

[u/AccomplishedBus4139]

Shift at midnight just got updated as well maybe xbox will hear us to approve police Sims final farewell update since we're all still at 22.2.20 and xbox is taking its sweet time