“beloved” ?

ok.

“for a TRINITY of films” was right there

Why exactly would he get charged regardless of if he pulled the trigger or not?

It will keep happening until folks learn to set aside FOMO. Stop pre-ordering and stop buying at release.

letting them off scott free how? Who are they not letting off scott free? Assuming this person isn’t abusively tweeting at devs, what judgement are they actually meting out? I would say most people aim their ire at the Activisions and Ubisofts of the world. Not Respawn or whatever. Especially when it comes to…

That is, unless we start to utilize AI-produced assets, but as we’ve seen over the last year, the outrage is strong in opposition of this option, deserved or not. AI assistance could drop the threshold and time commitment for high-quality game production by a significant margin.

First, to get this out of the way, Kotaku complaining about poorly sourced, inflammatory and click bait content? Pot, I would like to introduce you to Kettle.

To the end user, the sympathy can only go so far when you are asked to fork over $70 dollars for a game that could be broken, janky, and filled with in game purchase bullshit.

But they do share some responsibility in their parent company's decisions and in the product they're making. They're not blameless.

I only have a finite amount of sympathy to hand out and there are a few billion people on Earth who are in line before video game developers.

fuck the deadlines

Take the time, fuck the deadlines, balance (as best you can, as developers) your work and life schedules - we (gamers) will still be here when you feel your game is completed and up to snuff. We will pay the money and applaud your efforts.

Counterpoint - slightly - there are more resources available to learn about games ahead of purchase than perhaps any other products on the market. That isn’t to say we can’t criticize or get annoyed when those games turn out to be bad (or even just not what we expect), but they have ample opportunity to conduct one…

Hard disagree, tbh. BG3 absolutely should be used as a weapon, as it proves an incredibly specific point, which is that publicly traded, shareholder run companies are almost always the enemy of quality. The developers I’ve seen that are preemptively complaining are not wrong, in that players will expect more, and they …

Exactly. I don’t care about the developer’s feelings. If they don’t make a quality game I’m not going to buy it.

I’m the consumer. It’s not my job to root for a company. If I pay $70, I expect a $70 product. All the excuses, literally aren’t my problem. All the people who defend a company just make the problem worse.

Its about quality. No one expects every game to be as complex or large or detailed as this. But what everyone should expect is for developers to give a damn and make sure whatever they are making is something they can be proud of.

I get this argument, I really do, but it gives short-shrift to the simple fact that $70 is no small amount to the average person, who maybe doesn’t want to feel the phantom hand of a publisher reaching into their pocket for more money every ten minutes.

Honestly, it’s no different than what passes for political discourse nowadays, which is even more sad.

Counterpoint. I don’t care what kind of problems the developers are having. Not my problem. Don’t market your game deceptively.  I just want to buy a working game that’s design isn’t based on pushing additional purchases for a product I already own.