I was saying last night to my Mrs that people have lost what it is like to just buy a game and play it. Now you pre-order to be cool, spend a fortune on microtransactions for vanity items or pay to win. In the past they were quality assured as it was all burned onto disk, now it's just chucked online and sold. There is also a loss of innovation and invention. They just rehash the same **** over and over again and stick a number after the title.
It really is quite depressing. I mean Skyrim launched yet another version and it is £15 if you don't have the creator items or £34.99 or £42.99 There is nothing new and Mods can do 100 times better.
It was the same with the modded versions of trilogy games. Seeing how they played better and looked better just shows how little respect there is for the PC community with all the takedowns issued.
As for R* and Take2. I have no respect whatsoever anymore. None. The way they treat the player base and the way the player base does not care astounds me but does not surprise me.
Either that or I am just getting old.
You're right, same games over and over again, same films over and over again...SKYRIM is just incredible, they must have sold it 10 times now, and nothing they have done since launch is a patch on what modders have done.
It is so sad. I think half the fun some people have is pre-ordering and then flexing about it. You're not geting old, it's just that people have accepted bad products, bad service, and anti-consumer practices as the norm. I wouldn't trust any developer with a penny until I know 100% what I am getting, but I also realise I'm outnumbered 100-1 by morons who have already spent £90 pre-ordering another pathetic iteration of *Battlefield Yawn (*Please note, product may or may not be finished later at our discretion).
It amazes me when I go on Reddit and there's thread after thread of complaints that Diablo 2 lauch was a disaster, I mean what were they expecting? its Blizzard! the people who remastered their own game ( and mace it worse, while taking away the ability to play the old version that you owned!) - Blizz have been pulling **** for years!
I could see why people go caught out with Cyberpunk, as CDPR had a very good track record, but a Blizzard release?
I just cannot get my head round why people fall for the same tricks over and over again...then you get people simping for the very corps who just basically stole money from them...such a weird generation.