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Second Chances
May. 29th, 2024 05:35 pmWas watching a video on Fallout 76 by Fantavision on youtube. In particular he was asking a simple question "Does Fallout 76 Deserve a Second Chance". I'm not actually making a comment/criticism on him and his post here. In fact I'm not actually going to be talking about Fallout 76 in particular. I only reference it here so you know why I started thinking about this topic at all.
In short, No, I do not think a game developer deserves a Second Chance at launching their game. People are free to do what they want of course. If they -want- to give the developer a second chance, all the power to them. However developers do not DESERVE a second chance. IE: Nobody should ever feel like they need to re-evaluate the game.
If the game was released in a horrible condition at launch, that just tells us the priority of the developers. (or their corporate overlords but I don't play the split-the-blame game. I'll blame the devs AND their publishers equally.)
Game is released as a buggy mess? Devs are forcing the game out just to get your money earlier than they should. Would you buy a dishwasher for full price despite it's programming glitches causing it to flood dishwater all over your kitchen until a repairman is sent out by the company to switch out some modules? Would you risk buying from them again the next time you need a new dishwasher? Especially if they have a history of these kinds of problems with their newly released appliances?
Game is launched with an exploitive micro-transaction ecosystem? Again, they're after your wallet. And you'd be a fool to think they haven't been manipulating the gameplay to 'encourage' you buy those micro-transactions.
We can keep going with all the different BS tactics employed by the modern game industry but I honestly can't bring myself to care. You get the idea.
Personally for me, if the game launches like shit, I typically place the game on ignore and forget about it. My personal policy is that I never un-ignore a game. Or publisher. And I don't buy things that have been ignored.
For those thinking "Your loss." keep in mind 'loss' here is relative. If I don't care for a game to begin with, I won't be losing out by playing other games that I'm enjoying perfectly fine. I have a finite amount of time to play games so I'm not going to waste it by playing games from devs that simply didn't care about their customer base enough to release a playable game at launch that isn't riddled with exploitive money schemes.
In short, No, I do not think a game developer deserves a Second Chance at launching their game. People are free to do what they want of course. If they -want- to give the developer a second chance, all the power to them. However developers do not DESERVE a second chance. IE: Nobody should ever feel like they need to re-evaluate the game.
If the game was released in a horrible condition at launch, that just tells us the priority of the developers. (or their corporate overlords but I don't play the split-the-blame game. I'll blame the devs AND their publishers equally.)
Game is released as a buggy mess? Devs are forcing the game out just to get your money earlier than they should. Would you buy a dishwasher for full price despite it's programming glitches causing it to flood dishwater all over your kitchen until a repairman is sent out by the company to switch out some modules? Would you risk buying from them again the next time you need a new dishwasher? Especially if they have a history of these kinds of problems with their newly released appliances?
Game is launched with an exploitive micro-transaction ecosystem? Again, they're after your wallet. And you'd be a fool to think they haven't been manipulating the gameplay to 'encourage' you buy those micro-transactions.
We can keep going with all the different BS tactics employed by the modern game industry but I honestly can't bring myself to care. You get the idea.
Personally for me, if the game launches like shit, I typically place the game on ignore and forget about it. My personal policy is that I never un-ignore a game. Or publisher. And I don't buy things that have been ignored.
For those thinking "Your loss." keep in mind 'loss' here is relative. If I don't care for a game to begin with, I won't be losing out by playing other games that I'm enjoying perfectly fine. I have a finite amount of time to play games so I'm not going to waste it by playing games from devs that simply didn't care about their customer base enough to release a playable game at launch that isn't riddled with exploitive money schemes.
