broken games ?

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bigjonnyauk

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now i know we dont have to buy them but something has to be looked at to stop this kind of thing


lets look at the last few releases alone

fifa 14 online fut leagues cant add up and move you up divisions plus local matching broken

halo --- cant get online games broken

cod advance warfare horrendous lag and local matchamaking problems

pro evo having problems with sky and bt users online

ac unity framerate problems on xbox one

far cry 4 i hear there are multiple problems with it


i mean these are not new developers making these games these are sequals of previous games so you would seriousley think they would get it about right now .

yes in time patches may fix most issues but should we have to have a game sitting on our hard drive waiting for it to be fixed when we buy it thinking that it is playable from day one .


maybe games both physical and digital should be added to the sales and goods act to say that if they are not as described or in full working order you have a right to a refund ...

to often now developers are rushing games out to get the dollar in , in the old days of games with no option for online patches they had to get them right i cant recall playing a snes game that was broken etc etc
 
Becoming the norm these days which is shame their should be better regulation, and we should be able to get refund on seriously broken games like drive club for a example.
One company I have respect for is Nintendo they seem really good at release games that are not broken..

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ak22 said:
Becoming the norm these days which is shame their should be better regulation, and we should be able to get refund on seriously broken games like drive club for a example.
One company I have respect for is Nintendo they seem really good at release games that are not broken..

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They used to slap that sticker on any old crap in the eighties.
 
Just vote with your wallet - little reason to preorder it seems nowadays as quality at launch is anything but guaranteed now :(

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Let's hope DA:I don't flip like recent launches. My missus is looking forward to it, as am I. Add Destiny into the list of broken games too, despite that, I am thoroughly enjoying it.

Cant say the same for the others as I am not interested till it's cheaper / on offer.
 
Games are more complex, publishers are giving smaller and smaller development cycles and the ease of patching in this day and age make it much easier to fix post launch than risk going over schedual. Imagine if they completely buggered up a high profile game on the SNES, they'd more than likely have to do a total recall which would cost millions.
 
Console gaming getting like PC gaming.

With the consoles now being all online, patches become the norm, it almost gives developers an excuse to ship out unfinished games so they can patch it later.
 
It's true, consoles are so essy to patch games, I bet hardly anyone uses a console nowadays without being able to at least connect to the intrrent and I bet a vast majority login online once they turn their console on..

games are complex, sometimes I am amazed some of these games work at all, but there has been a heck of lot of very broken games this year..

drive club and mcc both have broken online, ac unity was one game I haven't purchased due to the awful backlash it got regarding it's performance...

I just hope gta v and Dragon age isn't too broken...
 
wannabedamned said:
Most painful launch I remember is GTA5. The online was well and truely broken.
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GTA5 didn't have online when launched.

It was the online side that broke, single player was fine.

Destiny actually had a pretty smooth launch all things considering, even on the PS4 that I played on, it was fine.
 
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as pseudo said, vote with your wallet or/and buy games later preowned cheaper ebay/game/gamescentre/mm.

game ain't worth 49,99 MSRP never.
 
Destiny is broken? Broken how? I played it for the first month and it was fine. What's changed?

Edit - Just read about the voice chat patch screwing other things up.

I'd add Driveclub to the list. I don't buy many games day 1. Driveclub may be the last. Apart from Far Cry 4, but that's in the post so.. :)
 
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