I keep coming across it with new titles these days and it's not a hardware problem as douchebags will inevitably claim. How many times have you guys found a title you think "Okay, maybe I'll give that a chance" you install it and after awhile of playing there's an instant CTD.
Or as is often the case because big game studios insist vomiting high polygon count everywhere the FPS is atrocious even on high end machines because they don't understand that the majority of people don't have 4090 gtx cards and 8k monitors. There's all kinds of basic stability shit going on that makes me feel like I'm looking through someone's alpha project they've barely started debugging yet and it pisses me off. It's no surprise that 2D games are regularly hitting the charts because I wonder if it's people getting sick of all this and defaulting to 2D games because they can't trust a 3D game to run properly.
My standards are so fucking low in a game now the first thing I have to ask is, will it run? And will it crash? If the answer is yes to either of those things then you just immediately move on. Game devs seriously need to learn to stop the fucking polygon vomit. I mean Cities Skylines 2 is a great example of this and it's interesting how pissed off gamers are getting with these titles nowadays.
Edit: Oh yeah I can't forget game breaking bugs in the pathfinding AI etc. that quite a few devs are guilty of. You often have to dig through forum posts to find out about those.
Does this issue cause you any grief?
https://gamevro.com/vac-ban-causes-100k-loss-to-counter-strike-2-player/
I think they were in dev settings. And, it clearly isn't a team process between the two companies. The thing that irritated me was how could an update be designed to look like an, " illegal mod"? Did the person that made the mod come up with the method? Was the mod inspiration?
All good points. But, the fact is that holding people's purchases hostage is fuck you refund everything actions. Too many people put up with their behavior.
When it happened to the very first person there should have been more collaboration.
Ohhhhh I could rant for pages about that.
I don't mind. No one else I asked thought it was the issue I did.
Seems to me like a classic attitude of, it didn't happen to me so I don't care which is very common these days. Yeah nevermind there are accounts getting falsely banned generally this is also an example of why you do not take part in these internet economies because you can lose all of that completely arbitrarily. Gaming was never about this, fucking item shops and economies are an invention of the modern era.
I'm not a fan of digital libraries either. But, the amount of money people spend on intangible items is crazy! It takes one person to get everything charged back for them to stop. My dad has multiple accounts more than 20 yrs old on multiple platforms. I think of his gaming library everytime these things happen.
The link especially had me angry for people. An update shouldn't cause so much drama.