• 9cpluss@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      In two years they can get the award for “best ongoing game” then, just like Cyberpunk :D

      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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        11 months ago

        God, what a dick sucking award. Cyberpunk may be playable now, but it did fuck all to deserve that.

        Better games launched excellent and got better with age. Launching to get removed from online stores and taking years to reach playable is not the best ongoing anything.

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          11 months ago

          It truly was a Great Gamer Gaslighting after that anime was released. Suddenly, cyberpunk was a work of art and everyone wanted to revisit it to see places from the anime. They hadn’t even done much to fix it yet at that point, and may even have still been dealing with legal stuff from all the stuff they promised that wasn’t in the game.

          The PR turn around with that game was wild to watch, it happened almost overnight. And Gamerz TM did it to themselves.

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      11 months ago

      Thank corporate morons forcing devs to the door to meet ridiculous timelines, they don’t give a fuck if it’s ready or not.

      I’m a SWE and my manager would tell me shit like “even Apple pushed out the iPhone with some bugs”, “at some point you have to wrap it and ship it”, etc. Mgmt uses this bullshit to feel better about their (or their bosses) poorly balanced priorities and decisions.

      It’s all about announce early, bag as much interest and money as possible and then ship it regardless if it’s reached the definition of done or not (you better believe mgmt will throw those goalposts around as they see fit)

      Pre-ordering morons hold some blame here as well as they play right into the bullshit I’m talking about

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      11 months ago

      why the surprise? as long as people keep buying they will try to squize more money for less effort.

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      11 months ago

      The worst part is that I’ve played early access games that have more shit going for them than Starfield