Comment by lelanthran
9 months ago
> For who? I, and I'm pretty sure most other gamers, would rather a fully-finished "perfect" game that took twice as long.
Evidence suggests otherwise. Of all demographics, gamers appear to be the most tolerant of buggy software.
I'm playing a 2020 game right now that has (in about 30 hours of gameplay):
1. Crashed twice 2. Froze once 3. Has at least ONE reproducible bug that a player would run into at least once every mission (including the first one).
Since this game is now so old it's not getting any more patches, these bugs are there for all eternity, because they just do not move the needle on enjoyment by the gamer.
Searching forums for Far Cry 5 Bugs gives results like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry/comments/1ai4jzx/has_far_cry...
Gamers just don't care about bugs unless it stops them playing the game at all!
In order for bugs to have an effect on gamer enjoyment, it literally needs to make the game unplayable, and not just make the player reload from the last savepoint.
> Evidence suggests otherwise. Of all demographics, gamers appear to be the most tolerant of buggy software.
Evidence suggests otherwise. Of all demographics, game studios appear to be the most tolerant of buggy software. bladeblablabla
Just go look at CP2077 or BF2042 or Fallout 76 or ...
So many games out there that no one wanted to play until they finally actually made a game that was ready for release, a year or more after they released it.
> 1. Crashed twice 2. Froze once 3. Has at least ONE reproducible bug that a player would run into at least once every mission (including the first one).
Sounds about on par even for enterprise software, in cases where shipping quickly is prioritized over overall quality, doubly so for gamedev which is notorious for long hours and scope creep.