Modern Gaming (I think.)

[owsf2000]

I -was- going to rant about how the latest Batman game on PC was apparently so poorly put together and released to the point where the devs have actually stopped selling the game on PC until it's been finished. This is apparently their second PR damage control action. I don't know what their first response to PC gamers being pissed off at them, but apparently it just added fuel to the fire - much like how people are now up in arms over the Destiny DLC bullshit and the dev's interview that basically told long term players who had spent 100 dollars on the game that they'd have to buy the 80 dollar collectors edition if they wanted the couple of exclusive DLC items added to it - even though they already owned 75% of the collectors edition. (So it'd be like spending 80 dollars to get "40" dollars of DLC after spending 100 dollars on the game.)

Oh I shouldn't get started on a rant about that. Especially since I have no interest of ever picking up the online only game.

Yeah, I was actually going to talk about Anime conventions and how I'm going to go to one this weekend, but now I don't feel like typing it up after the mini-rant above. (I could say lots more about what I think of it.) Anyway, yeah, I'll be offline for a few days this weekend as I go to one. I'll probably talk about it on here on Sunday or Monday. Only downside of it is probably going to be me not being able to work on my Atari 7800 game over the weekend. It's starting to take shape! Links to the current beta/alpha/whatever of the game are in the first post of the thread. You'll need an emulator to play it. Either Prosystem or MESS will work. MESS will be more accurate with colors/etc. I'm not going to be optimizing the colors for real hardware until I can sit down and play it on real hardware myself.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

One of the commenters on the forum I linked went:
"I think it's preposterous, this even occurred. As stated many times, how did this game make it out of QA?"

The answer to that of course is that it was never put IN to QA to begin with. Apparently the PC port was an outsourced job to a small company that has a dozen people AND they were given 2 weeks to port the PS4 version (I believe) over to the PC.

And you can see the result of that.

Another person on there seemed to try to suck up to the devs with "Yes RockSteady only did the console games they let a third party do the pc version probably because they were running out of time. "

ie: "oh no, it's not our precious developers fault at all!" uh, yes, yes it is. If your game isn't ready, you don't let it be sold in the first place.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get the whole "It's not their fault since they didn't do the port themselves, they let someone else do it, so it's 100% that group's fault instead" bullshit. It's Rocksteady's fault because they were too lazy/rushed/whatever to properly bother with the port themselves.

More importantly, it's WB's fault, since they're the goddamn publisher over the whole thing and should have had more QA devoted to it, one way or another. Then again, it was almost assuredly because WB just had to have the PC version be out at the same time as the console versions and thus foisted the port onto this shitty third party dev that this mess happened in the first place.