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Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.'
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Not sure why we're arguing this quote with the same two games over and over. Nms and cyberpunk are great games, but they're a rarity.
Game Dev crunch is a plague in th industry, we suffer as consumers who cop bad releases on release. The whole industry could learn from its roots and delay things for a better initial product.
Defending the current practice of redevelopment in post is almost consumer gaslighting.
Plus, the base game itself should be good. It shouldn't need updates. Post-game launch updates should be enhancements, not fixes.
I think a big difference with both is that they're not big multiplayer titles that are looking to make money with cosmetics.
If a multiplayer focused game is shit at launch, it won't get a good user base and then it's as good as dead.
Both Destiny and Destiny 2 had really poor launches. Then they cleaned up their act and we're very successful and had thriving playerbases. Light fall and this past year notwithstanding...
Destiny 2's been a real roller coaster. Forsaken was the best it ever was, so you haven't missed much imo.
I’m not defending the need for post-launch patches to fix glaring issues and I’m not defending crunch, but suggesting that buggy releases and crunch haven’t been with gaming since the earliest days of the industry seems like putting on rose colored glasses. There is a lot to damn about the current industry, but painting the root days of the industry as free of those same issues just to make the comparison seems unrealistic.