2023: Collectors edition comes with a steelcase and a download code
Diablo collector’s didn’t even include the game
I live, breathe, and sleep video games but this is a problem we made for ourselves. You don’t have to buy the latest and greatest games from million dollar companies. Heck, you don’t have to buy any games at all. Stop buying crap and they’ll stop making as much of it. Go play something else or, and I say this as someone who’s currently designing homebrew for a TTRPG in another tab, go touch some grass.
Damn straight, the amount of times I’ve heard “It’s probably gonna be shit, oh well. Still gonna pre order cause of this [dogshit] skin for the gun that won’t be meta for longer than a week cause it’s so busted.”
I saw this coming back in 2013 and have been trying to convince people that it’s going to be a problem and get worse as time goes on.
Well LOOK AT ME NOW, WENDELL!!!
Like, the enshittification of IT is basically over-engineering imo.
But this baby can fit so much spaghetti!
Guess that a lot of game studios don’t know what the V in MVP stands for.
Not true, if people buy it the V is in there. And plenty of people throw their money at it, otherwise they’d stop doing that.
But hey, pre-order our broken game for $70 today! Do it now, because surely the digital copies will run out otherwise.
Pre order our game that is broken because the director was fired halfway through development, but we insisted on the original release date. Also the coders will get to see their family unharmed again once they’ve released the first patch.
Well there is Hope with games like Baldurs Gate 3 and most indie titles
Baldur’s gate 3 is a work of art.
Indie is the way to go. The number of times I’ve been disappointed with “AAA” games is ludicrous.
Yes, been loving BG3 but my best experiences with games in recent years have all been indie, from Outer Wilds that made me completely rethink what a game experience is meant to be, to Vampire Survivors that tickled all the right parts of my brain into making me spend hours watching pixels flash on screen in the most mind-numbingly addictive way. Indie devs really seem to be carrying forward the soul of gaming that larger gaming companies have lost, the exceptions being so rare that Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting lauded for basically meeting what would have been normal expectations for a AA title in the early 2000’s
You just have to be VERY careful with buying them day 1. I mostly just wait for a “complete edition” or “goty edition” or smth and THEN wait til that is cheap.
This is exactly the way to do it. Well, it’s exactly the way I do it. Yeah I have to wait a little bit but I’d rather have the full experience available, and a discount is a nice bonus, when I start a game than buy it piecemeal.
After BG3 released:
Noooo! This would put new expectations on video games!!!
All those hit pieces that were coming out as BG3 was launching were so transparent. “Shit one company is actually putting in effort, make it seem bad somehow”
This is one big reason why I support indie titles and piracy more than ever. The whole “we can’t be financially bothered to put out a functional title on launch, but our shop with 60 DLC skins each coating $400 each works perfectly” mentality has driven me far away from ever paying for triple AAA titles again and is also why I will never play a remaster of any game outside of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
If you cannot be arsed to put out a functional title on launch, maybe you should be retired and sent to the ranch.
Slaps the hood of Baldur’s Gate 3 this bad boy can fit so many wildly exceeded expectations for a complete AAA-title at launch in 2023
Wasn’t it also early access? At least some part of it? Or am I remembering the wrong game.
The first of three acts was in early access for nearly 3 years
It was early access for like 3 years. Which allowed them to release a fully finished game, or the closest we had from that state since no one remembers when actually.
Yup! A couple YEARS early access even, afaik!
Facts are for losers. We’ve got nostalgia to bait.
They are literally the exception that proves the rule.
When everyone is shocked that the game was even complete without day1 DLC, you know the industry is fucked.
Well it’s very much the exception to a near-absolute rule, so the original point still stands 🤷
I’m confused why people are upset at early access. It can be done badly to sell a game that isn’t finished for full price.
But Larian has always done early access this way: first act for testing. And it works great.
Missing a slot machine or roulette.
Victoria 3
To each their preferences, if people want to play “AAA” games or w/e that’s their choices. If you’re sick of the way they sell though I suggest trying something else, there are plenty of very good games out there that don’t shamelessly take their customers for piggy banks.
I think most of us are sick of others buying shit AAA games and then complaining about the expense of DLC and the bugs and what not. So I would modify what you said to be if you want to, go ahead, but stop complaining about the shit you should have expected.
We really went from “More pie sir?” to “The rest of your pie sir?”
>Horse Armor DLC
That’s what started it all.
Now you can preorder thier newest game and have it preload the entire game two weeks before you can play it! Because it you’re dumb enough to preorder it you’re probably dumb enough to not want your storage space too.Todd Howard is a greedy fuck.
You can choose not to preload the game, can’t you? So it’s up to the individual. Besides, why wouldn’t you want to preload the game so when it’s released you can just hop in? I don’t get your angry reasoning here. If you’re gonna play the game then the storage is gonna be occupied either way. Lol
Yes. Pre loading is a huge benefit for people with low bandwidth Internet. The usage of storage space is a weird complaint.
This is too true :c
Don’t you know? This kind of quality is impossible for poor little AAA studios to keep up! We really should just settle for tech demos. :(
