General Videogame Thread

Manchester_lalala said:
So customers are morons for buying a game that’s been in the making for years? After all the hype and excitement, only to be let down with a buggy game. I personally never have pre ordered any game, but I do buy games on launch day. But the blame shouldn’t be on the customers, it’s the greedy developers taking chances on their loyal customers. Take a look at CDPR statement today, tells you everything about the robbing bastards.
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Yes? I don't see how that is controversial. It's a game, you are not obligated to buy it the second it is released.

Any console player could have waited a day and seen the mess the game is in and then chose not to buy it.

For some reason they decided to blindly trust CD Project Red and give them money on the assumption the game would be good. That's pretty moronic in my opinion.

I think most people would agree you are a moron for buying a house without looking round it or having any surveys done. The concept is exactly the same.
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
Yes? I don't see how that is controversial. It's a game, you are not obligated to buy it the second it is released.

Any console player could have waited a day and seen the mess the game is in and then chose not to buy it.

For some reason they decided to blindly trust CD Project Red and give them money on the assumption the game would be good. That's pretty moronic in my opinion.

I think most people would agree you are a moron for buying a house without looking round it or having any surveys done. The concept is exactly the same.
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It really isn't.
 
BigOscar said:
It really isn't.
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How isn't it?

No console gameplay was shown before release, therefore anyone's purchase is based on pure trust for the developer.

The developer cares about making as much money as possible and obviously though releasing now and patching would make them more money. With 8 million pre-ordered they are probably correct.

Why couldn't you wait to play it? Is it worth about story spoilers or peer pressure from everyone else playing it and feeling like missing out?

Even in that case why not wait a day and see what you are actually buying.
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
Yes? I don't see how that is controversial. It's a game, you are not obligated to buy it the second it is released.

Any console player could have waited a day and seen the mess the game is in and then chose not to buy it.

For some reason they decided to blindly trust CD Project Red and give them money on the assumption the game would be good. That's pretty moronic in my opinion.

I think most people would agree you are a moron for buying a house without looking round it or having any surveys done. The concept is exactly the same.
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This is a bad take.

Anyone played the new Doom game? Just seen it's on Game Pass and enhanced for the Series X.
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
Yes? I don't see how that is controversial. It's a game, you are not obligated to buy it the second it is released.

Any console player could have waited a day and seen the mess the game is in and then chose not to buy it.

For some reason they decided to blindly trust CD Project Red and give them money on the assumption the game would be good. That's pretty moronic in my opinion.

I think most people would agree you are a moron for buying a house without looking round it or having any surveys done. The concept is exactly the same.
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This is a mistake that gamers often make. They think that gaming news is big news, but it isn’t. It only exists in a small corner of the wider gaming community. Most players of video games do not know who develops the game, they don’t know that it might be unplayable, they just see the game in store, they see adverts, and they buy it because they like the look of it. Or they’ll ask for it as a present. Most don’t expect a £50-60 game or however much they cost these days to be unusable. It is not something that the vast majority would even consider as being a possibility. In the same way nobody expects a DVD to not work. Sure, it might be a poor movie in the same way a game can be poor. But most don’t expect the game to be broken.
 
City_Sean said:
This is a bad take.

Anyone played the new Doom game? Just seen it's on Game Pass and enhanced for the Series X.
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Why is it? The following are pretty well known facts for games:

- trailers are very rarely representative of the actual game, especially ones shows at E3 and the like.

- games released at the end of a consoles lifespan often run like absolute shit.

- open world games are full of bugs on release.

- for cyberpunk, the game was delayed multiple times when it was supposed to be finished.

If you then purchase the game the second it releases without hesitation then I'm sorry I don't have much sympathy.

If you lack the patience to wait a day to see how it looks and runs then you really need to work on your patience.

It goes without saying that the developers should release an unfinished game but this isn't the first and won't be the last. The reason it keeps happening is because people keep rewarding their behaviour by buying this shit.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
This is a mistake that gamers often make. They think that gaming news is big news, but it isn’t. It only exists in a small corner of the wider gaming community. Most players of video games do not know who develops the game, they don’t know that it might be unplayable, they just see the game in store, they see adverts, and they buy it because they like the look of it. Or they’ll ask for it as a present. Most don’t expect a £50-60 game or however much they cost these days to be unusable. It is not something that the vast majority would even consider as being a possibility. In the same way nobody expects a DVD to not work. Sure, it might be a poor movie in the same way a game can be poor. But most don’t expect the game to be broken.
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You have a point but I think over the last 3-4 years this is now the standard. Almost every game has issues on release and day 1 patches are a regular occurrence.

Games are often sold when unfinished and then patched as they go. I mean when I was still playing warzone there were 30gb patches every 3 weeks to fix whatever broken thing was in the game.
 
EdersonsSmiley said:
How isn't it?

No console gameplay was shown before release, therefore anyone's purchase is based on pure trust for the developer.

The developer cares about making as much money as possible and obviously though releasing now and patching would make them more money. With 8 million pre-ordered they are probably correct.

Why couldn't you wait to play it? Is it worth about story spoilers or peer pressure from everyone else playing it and feeling like missing out?

Even in that case why not wait a day and see what you are actually buying.
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Because all purchases in life rely on q certain amount of good faith. A consumer has every right to believe what they are buying actually works and if a company goes out of it's way to hide the fact that it doesn't from you, they have defrauded you. If a game gets glowing reviews plastered everywhere, it's not unreasonable to expect the gxme to work on all the platforms they released it. They know the average consumer isn't wised up to the fact the reviews are all based on deliberately suped up pcs, that's why they did it.

As for your "companies want to make money so of course they will try and rip you off" angle, that's a very naive and simplistic view of business. A companies image and reputation have huge value and this sort of short term cash grab does them huge long term damage.

I personally pretty much never oreorder anything, but anyone who does have every right to not be deliberately deceived aboutwhatthey'llreceive. Your attempt to put the blame on the victims of fraud, rather than the perpetrators, is a bit odd
 
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