Wyzak, is there nothing we can say that can make you see reason? Are you that far down the rabbit-hole? No matter what we say, you just keep parroting that we should vote with our wallets. Here's the thing, buyer beware is a terrible excuse for bad videogames.
"Vote with your wallet" is the biggest cop-out intended to silence criticism. "Oh, you don't like this game? SHUT UP VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET." "Oh, you're complaining because you got sold a buggy mess? SHUT UP AND VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET." Well, it doesn't work that way because those of us who are informed enough to vote with your wallet are in the minority. Not everyone in the gaming industry is informed enough to know that apparently if they don't want to buy a broken piece of shit, they shouldn't buy it on release.
Granny Smith down the road doesn't know who the bloody hell Ubisoft is, much less what PC gaming entails when she buys a new computer game for Little Johhny's birthday. Dudebro #22 living on the 4th floor of the Dagbreek residence sees an advertisement for the newest game and goes out to buy it, completely oblivious to any of the politics going on on MyGaming, just for him to get home and struggle with a buggy piece of shit. You and I know not to pre-order these games, but these people aren't as informed as you and I. And you know what? There are many more of these people than there are of us who visit gaming forums and stay informed, and they're not to blame for buying buggy games. Ubisoft is to blame for selling them a buggy piece of shit in the first place and that is inexcusable.
Selling games with massive performance optimization issues is inexcusable. Telling people that "all games release with bugs, deal with it" is a pretty weak excuse from a fanboi. Take that weak shit elsewhere, because in the land of people who have common sense, we can spot the difference between releasing an unoptimized piece of shit and releasing a game with a few minor bugs. There is no excuse for releasing a game that is in such a sorry state as Watchdogs was (is) at release and any attempts at justifying it is just the prattling of blinded fanbois. If you playtest your games properly before release, then this kind of thing doesn't happen. The magnitude of the project is completely fucking irrelevant, because with a more complex project it simply means you need to spend more time playtesting and optimizing it. This is just another story in a long history of Ubisoft spitting on PC gamers.
I might now know to never buy a game from Ubisoft again, but my next-door jock neighbor doesn't and for that very reason I will remain vocal whenever the gaming industry screws gamers over like this. Releasing games with severe bugs and optimization issues is not excusable and it should be called out and I will continue to call it out for as long as developers/publishers think they can get away with it.
No matter what anyone says, we should not have to put up with games not working as intended on release and nobody has the right to tell anyone else they should shut up and vote with their wallets. The idea that it is unrealistic to expect properly working games at release is fucking moronic at its core.
And that's my 2c. I'm out because I'm not going to continue getting involved in an argument where someone keeps trying to tell us why we're wrong for being angry that we got sold a broken game at release. Especially not when the game in question isn't even good.
