Okay, so my wait 90 days before buying theory still holds true for new games.
I would suggest adopting the same policy. The game will still be there when you get to it. But as it happens, it might not be the same game you thought it'd be.
The game will be on sale at some point for certain, they are doing well now, but they all eventually are 20-50% off on a steam sale.
I told my friends I didn't want to play Palworld, its still early access, lets see if they finish the game, or I'll buy it on sale for 50% off in a few months, but one of them gifted me the game. I appreciate it of course, but in the vein of "wait 90 days before buying" I have been fully done with paying for early access games for years now and do not want to give companies money for that anymore either.
Let's see if they actually finish the game first before giving them money maybe? They got plenty from all the normies already(applicable here in Tekken's case too).
I made one exception to not buying EA: Hardspace Shipbreaker. And damn, it was fun in EA. But the money ran out, they applied a bunch of fixes that made everything worse, replaced the text-based ghost story with a poorly acted nigger woman unionization story, and slapped a 1.0 on it. I didn't think I could get mad about video games anymore, but I was wrong.
I loved the game in EA, hated the story in the final release. What the fuck were they thinking? It felt like that sorta coworker who just keeps talking about his personal life, fuck right off with that imho. Gameplay was still fun but got old quickly since you barely had any new ships, mechanics didn't get much more difficult and not too big of an upgrade system(could've had more stuff at least imho).
I'll be honest some games are great in EA, I liked Divinity Original Sin 2, I liked (still like) Valheim, I played ARK when it was new and EA in the past, but more and more companies started taking advantage of it and I just can't agree with it anymore, even if I like the company.
I'm big on the no pre-orders no early access type of purchasing now.
Bro my policy is to just wait several years at this point and it's been fantastic. Not only do I get to filter down to just the quality games, but they all come bundled with whatever DLCs they've got and it's all on sale for 50% off + whatever base price drop has happened in the interim. Oh and all the mods are finally out and stabilized too, so anything that's actually wrong with the game has been corrected and vetted by the player base.
Why wouldn't you wait for games to age a bit at this point?
Yeah, waiting for a complete version is usually the best option. Not only will it not get patched a lot and change, maybe even fundamentally, but you'll get the most game for the least money.
You know, this combined with samey feeling games is what caused the first video game crash. And for the first time it awhile, it looks like we're heading for it. Maybe a video game system wide reset is needed.
Okay, so my wait 90 days before buying theory still holds true for new games.
I would suggest adopting the same policy. The game will still be there when you get to it. But as it happens, it might not be the same game you thought it'd be.
The game will be on sale at some point for certain, they are doing well now, but they all eventually are 20-50% off on a steam sale.
I told my friends I didn't want to play Palworld, its still early access, lets see if they finish the game, or I'll buy it on sale for 50% off in a few months, but one of them gifted me the game. I appreciate it of course, but in the vein of "wait 90 days before buying" I have been fully done with paying for early access games for years now and do not want to give companies money for that anymore either.
Let's see if they actually finish the game first before giving them money maybe? They got plenty from all the normies already(applicable here in Tekken's case too).
I made one exception to not buying EA: Hardspace Shipbreaker. And damn, it was fun in EA. But the money ran out, they applied a bunch of fixes that made everything worse, replaced the text-based ghost story with a poorly acted nigger woman unionization story, and slapped a 1.0 on it. I didn't think I could get mad about video games anymore, but I was wrong.
I loved the game in EA, hated the story in the final release. What the fuck were they thinking? It felt like that sorta coworker who just keeps talking about his personal life, fuck right off with that imho. Gameplay was still fun but got old quickly since you barely had any new ships, mechanics didn't get much more difficult and not too big of an upgrade system(could've had more stuff at least imho).
I'll be honest some games are great in EA, I liked Divinity Original Sin 2, I liked (still like) Valheim, I played ARK when it was new and EA in the past, but more and more companies started taking advantage of it and I just can't agree with it anymore, even if I like the company.
I'm big on the no pre-orders no early access type of purchasing now.
"space corporation bad"
do you have any idea how many people i'd kill to have that job? i don't care if the corporation is evil.
Bro my policy is to just wait several years at this point and it's been fantastic. Not only do I get to filter down to just the quality games, but they all come bundled with whatever DLCs they've got and it's all on sale for 50% off + whatever base price drop has happened in the interim. Oh and all the mods are finally out and stabilized too, so anything that's actually wrong with the game has been corrected and vetted by the player base.
Why wouldn't you wait for games to age a bit at this point?
Yeah, waiting for a complete version is usually the best option. Not only will it not get patched a lot and change, maybe even fundamentally, but you'll get the most game for the least money.
You know, this combined with samey feeling games is what caused the first video game crash. And for the first time it awhile, it looks like we're heading for it. Maybe a video game system wide reset is needed.