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The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] barsquid 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If they want me to buy AAA releases when they come out; they need to be actually fun, no rootkits, no microtransactions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. And no game-breaking bugs at launch.

Nintendo for all the awfulness that is their legal department got this right. I pre-ordered Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and it worked absolutely fine when I plugged it in. Yeah, there was a day 1 patch (didn't check the state of things before the patch), but I haven't had any issues with it so far.

Indies also often get this right. There are plenty of devs I trust to have a solid product day 1. No stupid DRM, microtransactions, etc, just a fun game.

I don't care too much about graphics, I just want a fun game to play, and I'm unwilling to pay to be a beta tester.

[–] FollyDolly 2 points 1 month ago

Right? Why should I pay full price for a game and it's a buggy mess, sometimes even unplayable past a certain piont? All this has done has made me wait a year or two for games that I want, so I can get functional games, which is the opposite of how the studios want to make money.