Alternate title: Paradox discovers that players aren’t willing to buy a broken game with the promise that it will maybe get fixed within 1-2 years.
We’re coming up on a year from launch now. For me the game is fine, but it’s lacking a lot of stuff to make it a CS1 replacement, and them having to go back and fix performance issues means they’re putting off actual feature development.
Heavy emphasis on maybe
There is no guarantee a broken game will be ever fixed. See KSP 2.
No Problem with buying games that launch broken and get fixes later. I‘ll just get them once they’re fixed.
They may even be on sale too!
We have like one or two examples of something being fixed after everyone raged. That’s No Man’s Sky and the Sonic movie. We never expect anything to be fixed and generally lean on rioting when devs break things instead.
Don’t forget Final Fantasy XIV. That game got a full rewrite, top to bottom and came out far better than its original state.
The MMO?
yes, the mmo at launch was a huge flop, so much so that the newer version of it kind of makes fun of the old world that was destroyed.
What, rely on a company to uphold the spirit of an agreement and deliver on fixes after I’ve paid? Risible.
An internet connection should never have been an excuse to release a broken product.
I also feel like I don’t want to start the game, because it just lags and feels slow even in the damn menus.
