Re: Warning Signs From Game Reveals

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 23:13 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:05:16 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Xocyll wrote:
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The
Augury is good, the signs say:
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Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote at 18:04 this Sunday (GMT):

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
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On 6/1/2025 9:53 AM, Xocyll wrote:
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Not sure what you mean by road maps.
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We'll add X feature 6 months down the road, Y feature in a year, etc.

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Ahh that.
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Or as I think of it, "our game is gonna suck at release, but stick
around, cool shit is coming."
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Xocyll
-- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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If you're not going to release a full game, I shouldn't have to pay for
a full game :( This isn't an investment.

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Exactly, which is why I never pre-order and usually wait until at least
one patch has been released AND reviews post-patch are favorable before
I even consider buying a game.
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They're asking $80-90 CDN for a stripped down game and want more for DLC
to bring it up to full spec, then I'm going to wait until it's finished
AND on sale.
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Sale-GOTY in other words.
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I have Borderlands 1, 2, pre-sequel, and 3. I've never even played the
"pre-sequel." In all that iterating, nothing has really changed.
Certainly not for the better.
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Borderlands 4 is like a Hummel doll that stays on a shelf to me if I ever
"buy it." Strictly for The Number.

  The number msut go up at all costs?