Its funny when developers release a game on time you moan
When polyphony delays GT5 to sort out the bugs you moan........
Guess its just human nature to moan........
Its funny when developers release a game on time you moan
When polyphony delays GT5 to sort out the bugs you moan........
Guess its just human nature to moan........
Rocksteady delayed Batman AA by 2 or 3 months and look a the result. Brink was delayed by Splash Damage from November release to a Feb release for polishing. GT5 has been delayed for 3 years.... yeah then the consumer is going to get cranky coz everytime the hype goes up and then its delayed.Originally Posted by Viking
Delaying a game for even 6 months to make sure u release it in the best possible condition I have nothing against that, coz it will be worth the wait.
The internet has changed gaming (wrt to this issue) in two ways...
1. Devs can release early and patch
2. Devs can delay, have fanboys moan and hurt their sales.
It's a lose/lose situation for the devs unless they have a HUGE following and a guaranteed hit.
EDIT: Even then, one of those two factors can still come into play...
Would not have an issue if a game is delayed cause it ain't yet fit to be played. I'd much rather wait than have to deal with game crippling bugs. I think its those who jump than gun and preorder to save a buck that end up moaning when a game is released later than expected.
The only way the devs/publishers will learn is a mass boycott by the gamers, but sadly this will never happen as there are simply too many fanbois and gamers in general who will buy the product no matter what. Some because they don't care and many because they know a patch will fix things.
Now if it was simply a patch, fine. But what gets my goat is the whole new thing of DLC. I understand broadband opens up great revenue for devs/publishers by releasing DLC every 2nd week or month, but they prices they charge is not fair. Years gone by, you would get expansion packs that yes, would cost a bit more than DLC today, but they included WAY more content than todays' DLC.
I understand it's all about making money, but somewhere you kinda wish, hope and pray that these fat cats might realise that maybe they should look after their customers just a little bit better. Just maybe.
That's exactly my issue: The fat cat ideology. The nature of the industry is that publishers distribute through third party retailers and hence are not directly accountable to the consumer. Take the Activision facebook page and this whole issue with COD. They say WE the consumer must stay CALM cause they buggered up. I think that they should be grovelling rather than shouting for calm from their great height.
EA hasn't releaced a single solitary fully developed game since C&C renegade, who the developers are is irrelevant, there all part of EA and thats whats going to happen with every last game they make. So I simply don't buy EA games.
Also somebody said THQ doesn't produce quality. Well...
Company Of Heroes
Titan Quest
Warhammer
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Frontlines
Just a few examples
Last edited by Raven Gold; 10-11-2010 at 03:34 PM.
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Why is who the developer is irrelevant? EA, unless its an EA studio like EA Shanghai or something, is just a publisher with a great many developement studio's under its umbrella. Thats like saying all Universal movies are crap just coz Doom was shit.... instead of say this and this film studio is kak for releasing it.
Give me the name of any EA game in the last 7 years that has zero bugs on the PC version at releace?
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Give me any game that has been released PC with zero bugs in the pc version?
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