Current Events > So games launching unfinished can be recognized as a trend now right?

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Destiny
No Man's Sky
Assassin's Creed: Unity
Street Fighter V
Final Fantasy XV
Mass Effect: Andromeda

The Witcher 3 even plays significantly better now than it did at launch.

I guess this is the thing now huh. At least they are generally fixed or completed?
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Technically any game with a day 1 patch is unfinished
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It was prevalent even back then even without online patches. It just seems more noticeable now because of being able to patch things more easily.
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ShutTheHellUp posted...

Technically any game with a day 1 patch is unfinished

These games aren't just performance patches or something minor. They're updating gameplay mechanics and sometimes adding further content.
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Games have longer and longer development cycles these days. Sometimes it's financially impossible to not release a game, even if it needs more work. That's why after (or even before) a game goes gold, devs are trying their hardest to fix whatever they can.

Don't blame devs, blame the increasing costs of developing games, the static price point of games, and greedy publishers trying to push as many games as they can regardless if they're ready or not.
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Which is why I don't buy day 1

Destiny's whole thing was adding content to make it last longer though...
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Bio1590 posted...

Destiny's whole thing was adding content to make it last longer though...

Sure and I get that. That's why I didn't add stuff like Overwatch.

But the reception for the game seemed pretty mediocre at first and started to grow as time went on. To be fair I was tossing up including it because of the online focus.
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Banjo2553 posted...

It was prevalent even back then even without online patches. It just seems more noticeable now because of being able to patch things more easily.

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I prefer it to the old days. back then what you got was what you got and if you had a problem, tough shit
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