You guys know the people Im talking about.The "I wan't my money back,this game sucks,I'm uninstalling"
But when the servers come back on,there they are.
Oh wait,I though you were quitting last patch.
You guys know the people Im talking about.The "I wan't my money back,this game sucks,I'm uninstalling"
But when the servers come back on,there they are.
Oh wait,I though you were quitting last patch.
No it is.. back then when you bought it a game and took it home, it worked..
because it was clearly stated what you needed to work, it was all offline, and if it didn't work you just took it back to the store.
Now, we have platforms, different types of PCs, interwebs, online servers, complex coding, tweaking, patching, and digital distribution.
Originally Posted by Dinova
Gamers are quite unique group of population. They are willing to pay for getting alpha / beta testing rights.
I think it has plenty to do with generation.Everyone wants everything "NOW'.If it doesn't happen NOW,then they are all riled up,cursing and throwing feces about.
The reason they do not do this? Most games can not be returned once opened.
Trust me, with the track record Trion is establishing with this game, I would return it and maybe, just maybe, rebuy it at a later date for a discounted price and reduced issues. However, since I bought the digital download and season pass (over $100 US) and can not return it, I can expectations in order to get my money out of the game.
Just like Trion and its backers expect a return on their financial investment, I expect the same thing.
Yes. Quite amusing when people desperately try to get into betas, fail to use the beta to do any sort of testing, and then whine for months on end about bugs that they could have identified and reported during alpha and beta.
I remember this too, But It was also a diffrent time. Back in 1998 when I was cracking shareware, things were diffrent, Shareware by its nature was made to be shared, and disciminated. It was like a demo that was unlockable. If you put out a bad demo, no one is going to buy your product, especialy back then, when no one advertised their games, so the only real way you would know if a game was good was to play the demo.
The ability to patch your product after release has made developers, reviewers, and gamers lazy. It has lowered our standerds.
I played Exile III in the 90's from spiderwebsoftware.com for days on end, and never finished it. It was essentially oblivion before oblivion. I never downloaded a single patch for that game, and never had a problem.
Telling someone how they can improve is 200% more helpful then telling someone that they need to improve.
Exactly.Like why would you eat/sleep/breathe a beta without reporting bugs?I never join Beta If I Really want to play the game.That will only make sense to some...
I'm still holding on to the opinion that unless your old enough to have blown on a Final Fantasy 2 cartridge to get it to work then you should not be able to post on the forums at all... And with the various comments being posted by ignorant morons about the game being down for an extra minute/hour/etc or because their exact, specific problem was not instantly fixed I will be think I will be holding on to this opinion for the foreseeable future.
Yes, I know this rant is a generalization against young people and I smile everytime someone under the age of 30 proves me wrong, just seems to me there are a lot of people out there that were not taught the value of patience.
Blowing in an old cartridge? How about using a tape deck as a storage device on your old computer hooked up to a B/W TV!?
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