Yes, that's part of the product being sold.

That definition of "refined" makes no sense in this context. If they decided to sell it, then they decided it was refined enough to sell. That makes it a product. Period.

I didn't realize taking a picture in a place meant condoning the politics under which that place was constructed.

Not when it’s for sale for real money. If you’re selling something for real money, then it’s a product, whether it’s finished or not. I don’t really know how that’s disputable.

Your comment doesn't address my point at all. Are you sure you replied to the right person?

There's a big warning that says "this game is not finished." I'm not sure what more you can do for people other than hold their hands and push the buttons for them.

Nope. A review needs to describe the product as it currently is, because that's what people will be getting if they spend their money on it now.

Yes they are. What does that have to do with my point?

The reviews are intended to reflect the state and the quality of the game. As long as you’re charging people money for the game, then they have a right to voice their opinions about it, and people have a right to use those opinions to make their purchasing decisions. That’s part of the risk of releasing something for…

That’s the purpose of weighting recent reviews more heavily than old ones. It helps to ensure the reviews you’re reading are about the most recent version of the game. Once the game is fixed, people will stop posting the super negative reviews and the better ones will float to the top to better reflect the current…

It wasn’t rhetorical, it was just asked in the context of the article, which makes this out to be a problem, but never explains why it's a problem. I mean, sure, you don't want your game getting shitty reviews, but if it's in response to actual problems with the game, then that's not a problem with the review system;…

I mean, yeah. People should always be smarter. That's an answer for like 95% of the world's problems, but since that's not happening any time soon we just have to let them be responsible for their own mistakes.

Maybe, but the article doesn't really address either of these issues.

They're still products if they're being exchanged for money. If you buy an unfinished product, you've still bought a product.

Sounds like it's working as intended. Right now the game is a mess, and the reviews reflect it. When it's fixed, people will stop posting these reviews, the more recent ones will float to the top, and the reviews will reflect the new state of the game. What exactly is the problem here?

The paradigm you’re describing is also the only thing that keeps big publishers from having a lockdown on the industry. Without iterative development and early access it would be near impossible for indie studios to make anything but the smallest, simplest games.

Yeah, I find the idea of EVAs in space simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying. I bought an HTC Vive largely in the hopes that an EVA simulation is released for it so I can have the experience without the danger.

What I mean is that the flourishes and exaggerated movements in TW3 are similar (but less extreme in terms of timing and animation locking) to the slower, more deliberate wind-up animations that happen in the Souls games. You just have to learn to incorporate them into your timing.

Eh, it's just a matter of timing. It takes practice. It's certainly doesn't have the kind of animation-locked delays of, say, a Dark Souls game.

And the dodge attack is a joke, i spun so many times after a perfect dodge into death instead of just slashing