Poll of the Day > I wish the projekt red lawsuit was from consumers.

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Not that I have anything against them. Its just with how bad the reception went against them, it would be nice to have a legal precedent against incomplete titles being launched. Then maybe we wouldnt be getting the problem with other publishers/devs like ubi, beth, and ea putting out incomplete or flat out defective titles.

Why didnt this happen with prey. Seriously they game launched with a non recoverable save bug that deleted your save less that two hours in. Another was a game called recore. The dev syphoned money from the development and used it to pay for the dev of mighty no 9. Recore game out in complete and missing a character (tank bot) and had incomplete levels that required him. They didnt bother fixing it until wel after a year from the original purpose.

Oh well enough whining I want to play a legit cyberpunk 2077 woot I have hope and faith in the dev team......management not so much as you see what happend to 38 studios when they did something similar.

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I totally forgot Recore existed

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ScritchOwl posted...

Not that I have anything against them.

Investors speak more than we ever will.

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Zangulus posted...

For a lawsuit to proceed you need to show some sort of damages. The biggest bug complaints are older generation consoles not working properly. Since at least PlayStation offered refunds on the game, the consumers dont have any actual damages. Whereas investors do, because the bad press surrounding the game caused share prices to drop.

Pretty much. It's frustrating, but ultimately, it's pretty hard to prove financial damages for consumers. The absolute best you might be able to manage would be false advertising, but even then there's a huge amount of grey area between "this is not the product you told me I was buying" and "this product isn't as good as I was expecting it to be," and the vast majority of disappointing games fall too close to the latter extreme to really justify a lawsuit.

As a consumer, the absolute best thing you can do to punish publishers for releasing unfinished/broken games is to stop buying games at launch and encourage everyone you know to do the same (and, in turn, not buy them until they reach a more acceptable level of completion). You can make exceptions for publishers that have earned your trust by not releasing broken stuff, particularly in the indie space where there's generally much less by way of executive shenanigans, but by and large, the game industry has spent the last couple decades actively trying to convince us that they don't deserve preorders or launch sales. I think it's only fair to reward those efforts by agreeing with them.

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recore was fun

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I honestly wouldnt put it past south park to use the Ecco Mono defense for this trial. That once you give permission for an artwork to be made/restored then the artist is no longer liable save for actual destruction.

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