Gabe Newell on why game delays are OK: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.'
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Half-Life was delayed a full year past its original release date, and Valve has no regrets.
  • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Interesting spin on the “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”-quote.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      These quotes are from a time when games were stamped into hard plastic and circuitry. No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk are two examples of games with rocky launches that are both amazing now. Saying a game is forever bad simply isn’t true anymore provided the makers stand behind the product.

      • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        But they don’t most of the time. If you aren’t very lucky like with No Man’s Syk or Cyberpunk, you are stuck with an abandonend pile of garbage. And even with those games, it would have been better for everyone involved if they were what they are now from the start.

          • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Sad as that sounds, I’m sure there are some poor souls who are up for it.

            • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              1 year ago

              From everything I’ve heard, 76 is a lot better now, I am planning on playing it with a friend… Sometime… Ha

              • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Supposedly. But I was never a fan of the Bethesda Fall Outs, so I’d just never play FO76 in the first place.