The worst launches in PC gaming history

For me (& yes I am old) it was Eureka on the ZX Spectrum back in about 1984
£14.95 to buy, which was a hefty lump of cash for a game back then, & there was a prize of £25000 for the first person to complete the game.

Needless to say I didn't ever finish it, not because it was hard, but because it was such a bad game.
 
Plenty O'Toole said:
Lord of the Rings Online was awful, 12 hour wait after release before any of my group back then could even get in.
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Long waits for new MMO's is pretty much normal, LOTRO wasn't an awful launch because the game was the single most solid and 'finished' MMO I've played by such a massive margin it's ridiculous. Sure queues were long(though I never experienced anything even close to that), but that is the nature of MMO launches. I wouldn't call that a bad launch when every single other MMO also had terrible queues but were unstable, buggy as hell and lots starting off with a way less polish.
 
Batman Arkham Knight was perfectly playable at launch on a high end GPU with a simple ini tweak though!! WB were crazy to withdraw from sale for 6 months (due to Steam refund policy). Worse experiences I have had were Fallout 4 needed a lot of patching before playable. Fallout 3 1st DLC was not playable for about 10 hours after launch as MS messed up the encryption on the GFW Marketplace client.

There have been so many instances where the publisher or developer forgot to send Steam the activation keys or ran out after taking your money in a Steam sale due to under estimating the demand!!
 
Have to say APB was fairly spectacular. The whole cluster story behind the scenes of it's development, was pretty much being told from the off.

Wasn't Hellgate London a similar tale of woe.
 
Freddie1980 said:
He should play the original release of Battlecrusier 3000AD that was so bad it makes Batman Arkham Knight look like an award winning masterpiece.
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I remember the launch of Battlecruiser 3000AD - bad taste advertising and everything. Though we'd better be careful as Mr Smart may be lurking on these forums...

The experience of that game does remind me a bit of the hype about Star Citizen i.e. a space opera which promises so much.
 
BF4 for me. It put me off gaming for about 6 months. Was so hyped for it, took week off work. Rinsed BF3 so expected a lot. It was totally shambolic. Single player saves not registering. Sound glitches in online matches. Warping. Horrible hit detection. Lag. Crashes. Frame rate drops. Felt like such a scam as BF3 was still great.
 
Nexus18 said:
Rise of the tomb raider by far the worse for me

- constant crashes
- abysmal performance regardless of settings (DX 12 with the async patch is better but still **** poor)
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Weird, Literally never had an issue with the game, not have I heard of people having issues with it. You sure it's not just a game that happens to crash due to an overclock flaw somewhere on your system? Certain games can do that.
 
Agree with Age of Conan. 10 of the most beautifully crafted levels in any MMO followed by 20 levels of quite buggy levelling content (I can recall going into a pyramid type place and just walking through all the walls to the centre) and then.. no content at all. The last 10 (20?) levels were just grinding until they updated the game some time later.
 
VincentHanna said:
Weird, Literally never had an issue with the game, not have I heard of people having issues with it. You sure it's not just a game that happens to crash due to an overclock flaw somewhere on your system? Certain games can do that.
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No idea, could have been but I wasn't really willing to mess with my system given that other games ran without any issues.

Also, it wasn't hard locks/blue screens, it was just CTD's with some error messages.
 
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