Lurker > greenmist01

Questionmarktarius posted...

When you couldn't patch the games after release, you had to make sure they actually worked.

Thats the point i been trying to make in my OP. Now they all have the safety net of "well if there's bugs and glitches and incompleteness, we can always work on them any time after launch date", where as back before the powerful internet, you couldent do jack after the game had been released.

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Im wrong?

As far as console games go.

I think most people would agree that the golden age of video games was the 90s and the 00s. I think whats gonna ruin the current generation and the future generation is (and its happening already), game makers are just gonna be lazy, because of the invention of the internet and how powerful it is now.

In the past, if you wanted to make a video game, it had to be completed and polish before it hit the stores, and that really was the final final final deadline. But thats not the case now, cause if a game gets released and its not polished, you can finish it off with creating patches and sending them down the internet lines to all those households who have bought the games.

Why hire game testers to test the games for bugs and glitches, when you can get mr and mrs public to do it for you for free?. There is definitely evidence of this now, so many games get released that have more bugs in them than the cast of Antz. You even get games on their release dates that are unplayable, like Cyberpunk 2077. This is unfair to those who buy games on their release dates, cause they dont get their moneys worth. I think these days its best not to buy a game on its release date, but instead wait 2 or 3 months, then all the bugs would have been corrected by patches.