• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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      1 year ago

      well. yeah. i know people don’t like to hear it, because it’d be really nice if games shipped actually finished or not incredibly bug-ridden Day 1, but for most people the protest of not preordering a game so it’ll shipped finish just… doesn’t register as a concern. unless the game is so broken it’s actively unplayable (see the recent Gollum game) most people can hang with whatever happens Day 1 and it’s not a super big deal to them, nor is the principle of a playable game on launch. this is a case of online sentiment being a vocal but clear minority.

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        Its not a protest its common sense.

        I dont know the product. I wait for the review embargo to lift. Then i wait for AT LEAST release day to hear if its broken/servers are down (hello diablo 4) or its just shit.

        I can still literally buy, download and play it that same day if its amazing.

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    I won’t even consider buying until it’s been out for at least a year or two. By then the major bugs will have been fixed and all the content added.

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      Nope. And everybody will scream cause they payed 70 bucks for a broken game, just like Bethesda is known to produce.

      Just keep looking at the list. Payday 3 is also there. A publisher known for maybe a worse dlc and microtransaction policy than EA with the Sims, but it seems that doesn’t matter a bit.

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      My tactic of waiting a year until a newly released game is fully patched and grabbing it with a discount has yet to fail me.

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          I’ve just switched over to watching games being played on Twitch. I can enjoy all the latest games, at max settings (minus the 1080p twitch encoding), and divert my attention to other things simultaneously.

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      100%. I’m a diehard Bethesda RPG fan, but never ever preorder. I’ll never understand the stupidity in doing this.

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        I also got hyped and joined the launch day queues when i was a kid. But then we as a community got burned again and again.

        Like even the most casual gamer must get pissed off by broken servers.

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        That and preordering a digital product that literally can’t run out has no benefits.
        You just put down money for something without any idea what you’re getting.

        Preordering physical copies used to be a thing because shops would run out of them.

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    People still preorder games at full price even after all the controversies… Ngl the game looks sexy and may be a big hit but the price is a big no

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      I won’t lie I only preordered because I wanted the 5 day early play. My excuse though is that I literally have not preordered a game since we still needed to get them from Gamestop and I’ve been waiting for Starfield for like 5 years now.

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        I almost bought the early play version of diablo 4, took a lot for me not to buckle. Im going to wait before buying starfield, see how the release goes, hoping the game is a huge success because the latest gameplay sure got my attention

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    It’d be bad enough if this were just another AAA over hyped deal.

    This is literally Bethesda. What are these people smoking?

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    $70 for a Bethesda game that will come out broken is just insane to me. I’ll pick it up a year or so after release at a discount when the game is actually decent

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      IDK about a year for me personally, as when it doesn’t massively disappoint when it comes out I will likely get it as soon as I have anything resembling a free day. Nothing like cracking into a new game after you know it won’t disappoint and you have post of time to loose yourself.

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        Nah Bethesda games are best left alone until the modders get a solid crack at it to shore up bugs and add features that probably should’ve been in the base game. Give that shit at least half a year imo

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          I played Oblivion and Skyrim right at release and had a good time with both (more with Oblivion though).

          I played Gothic 1, 2 and 3 though, so I am used to games with really ugly bugs. The ones where your saved stage can get corrupted in a way that you have to load one from several hours back to correct a mistake to be able to proceed. So my threshold might be higher.

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    The game looks promising, from what i have seen.

    Few questions remain: Will it dethrone Jedi Survivor as worst performing game? Will it surpass Redfall in it’s emptyness? Does it have a chance fighting LOTR Gollum in “Most 2023ish game of the year”? Or will it truly be a Masterpiece? (Hint: Masterpieces don’t get released in 2023).

    We will find out at release. Together with those that preorderd.

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    It looks good in the marketing (it always does) but we should all remember that it’s Bethesda making this. Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point. The very sad state of the industry.

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      The team behind the Yakuza / Like a Dragon-games never disappointed me before. That’s one of the few developers / game series that I’m happy to support in advance.

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      I would say Rockstar Games ist one of the few thats left here. I was never disappointed by new Games they produced.

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      Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point.

      Valve hasn’t let me down yet. Neither with Software nor with Hardware. Aside from the Index I preordered everything they did since HL2.

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    won’t preorder, but i so do hope that it’s gonna be good and worth the wait …