Yup. Even worse yet are the amount of people who seem okay with "mandatory patches".
I can't even count the amount of people I have come across who say, "Yeah, but newer games are better because they can just patch it and fix it, old games you couldn't patch them!"
To those people, I always inform them, "Yes, back in the day if you launched a game broken and unplayable day-one, it usually meant the end of your company because you actually had to release a properly working game on day-one back in the day in order to be successful."
What's sad is, in theory, patches should make things better regardless. You could just not buy games if they released buggy and shit and move on from there, while genuinely good patching (fixing badly tuned things or adding more content) could improve on already good games.
The problem being, you don't get a fucking option. Its one thing for "always online" games or for going online in general, but why does a single player game care if I'm patched to the latest level?
There exists no reason but abusive control like this for removing that choice.
Truly a fantastic example of tripping at the finish line.
Also a fantastic reason in the long list of why "mandatory patches" is an undertalked about problem in the gaming industry.
Yup. Even worse yet are the amount of people who seem okay with "mandatory patches".
I can't even count the amount of people I have come across who say, "Yeah, but newer games are better because they can just patch it and fix it, old games you couldn't patch them!"
To those people, I always inform them, "Yes, back in the day if you launched a game broken and unplayable day-one, it usually meant the end of your company because you actually had to release a properly working game on day-one back in the day in order to be successful."
What's sad is, in theory, patches should make things better regardless. You could just not buy games if they released buggy and shit and move on from there, while genuinely good patching (fixing badly tuned things or adding more content) could improve on already good games.
The problem being, you don't get a fucking option. Its one thing for "always online" games or for going online in general, but why does a single player game care if I'm patched to the latest level?
There exists no reason but abusive control like this for removing that choice.