Re: Stupid gamers, expecting games to work!

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 11:52:19 +0100, H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 
Deputy CEO at Paradox recently lamented that modern players these
days have too "high expectations" and are weirdly less trusting that
 developers will fix problems in their games.

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I "miss" the times when games came in Read only cartridges and cds, with
no option to patch the game. Developers were pretty worried about game
breaking / crashing bugs as once the game released, there was no fixing
unless the game was considered for a reprint. Running into a bug that
destroyed your entire save (Zelda: Twilight Princess Cannon room save
glitch) was reputation ruining.
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OR maybe that's all nostalgia bullshit. it's not that games had less
bugs, but that the information did not reach further when just a few
could afford access to usenet or a BBS before internet became common.
Mortal Kombat 3 on snes crashed all the time, and I have heard the
Ultimate version was even worse.

Software code was simpler back then and didn't depend on fluctuating
driver ecosystems from so many different vendors with different
variables involved.

But yeah distribution services like Steam helped encourage getting
stuff out the door sooner due to ease of patching, and in particular
"early access" distribution which is a license for saying "not only
didn't we test it thoroughly yet, a lot of the game itself is half-
baked".  Not saying that's a good thing but its where we are.