• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    30 days ago

    Exactly. And no game-breaking bugs at launch.

    Nintendo for all the awfulness that is their legal department got this right. I pre-ordered Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and it worked absolutely fine when I plugged it in. Yeah, there was a day 1 patch (didn’t check the state of things before the patch), but I haven’t had any issues with it so far.

    Indies also often get this right. There are plenty of devs I trust to have a solid product day 1. No stupid DRM, microtransactions, etc, just a fun game.

    I don’t care too much about graphics, I just want a fun game to play, and I’m unwilling to pay to be a beta tester.

    • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      Right? Why should I pay full price for a game and it’s a buggy mess, sometimes even unplayable past a certain piont? All this has done has made me wait a year or two for games that I want, so I can get functional games, which is the opposite of how the studios want to make money.