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ZMythos
10/19/23 10:28:30 AM
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Studios are making more money than ever and dev teams couldn't be smaller and more hostile in their working conditions. Games are being rushed out to stores/digital platforms with bugs, missing features, bad optimization, and an apology note from some higher up at the publisher's behest.

When will we ever see a AAA game in a completed state be released again?

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Smackems
10/19/23 10:32:09 AM
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There were a couple recently I think. Maybe Zelda and ffxvi

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Dakimakura
10/19/23 10:32:35 AM
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Day 1 patches are fine. Day 1 DLC and micro-transactions is not.

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Blue_Inigo
10/19/23 10:33:05 AM
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No because even for the games that take their time, there's always something they could tweak or make better and since the internet exists they'll want to.

FF16 was bragging about no day 1 patch and then did it anyways because there was something they wanted to make better. Even in the best case scenarios, they'll do it

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PowerOats
10/19/23 10:33:40 AM
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Dakimakura posted...
Day 1 patches are fine. Day 1 DLC and micro-transactions is not.
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R1masher
10/19/23 10:34:36 AM
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I blame you, the reader of this post, preordering and driving the hype trains across the wasteland of the interwebs for the devs simps and shills

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ZMythos
10/19/23 10:36:46 AM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
No because even for the games that take their time, there's always something they could tweak or make better and since the internet exists they'll want to.
I'm okay with, like, accessibility options or obscure bugs being patched, I suppose.

Yet there are still many games with terrible graphics glitches and game-breaking bugs that get released, and devs rush out a day 1 patch instead of going through a thorough quality control process

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Smackems
10/19/23 10:45:00 AM
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R1masher posted...
I blame you, the reader of this post, preordering and driving the hype trains across the wasteland of the interwebs for the devs simps and shills
That's fair

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Sir_Will
10/19/23 10:46:42 AM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
No because even for the games that take their time, there's always something they could tweak or make better and since the internet exists they'll want to.

FF16 was bragging about no day 1 patch and then did it anyways because there was something they wanted to make better. Even in the best case scenarios, they'll do it
But there are degrees. XVI had come up with some tweaks and listened to some feedback but it was still perfectly playable without it. Some games basically require a huge Day 1 patch to be playable.

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