Not gonna even consider swapping a review to positive. Since the game still runs with bugs from Alpha. They know about them and still act like a suprized Goofy (Yes, the animated character), each time something is borked and mass reported.
Check these forums. The amount of reports and feedback is extreme for the small amount of people playing it before hand. They couldn’t even hit 10 000 people but everyone did their best to “beta-test” their busted game.
What do you get. You get not even half of these into consideration. Leaks/Glitches/Bugs. We are not talking about Online here. That was at 0.9, and introduced its own problems.
They just don’t wanna stop for a few months and fix majority of this game’s problems. At this point even a blind person that doesn’t want to, will encounter.
PS. Aall the debates about how people told them “Monoliths are not enough”.
The answer was “Monoliths are enough! We think they are.”
1 week after release - “Working on pinnacle boss”
The amount of clowning is overwhelming.
It’s disingenuous to just think buy product = always works as expected. It’s never like that in real life. It’s never like that in any software launches. There’s always defects to products and we deal with it on a regular basis. Except in real life most reasonable people who have to deal with defective products deal with it reasonably - complain and get it fixed or don’t give them business. We have a term for unreasonable white girls who throw a hissy fit when things don’t go there way and that’s a Karen. I’d say give your feedback and move on. If a faulty launch really bunches up your panties that much then be the adult and move on.
I worked on a State health care exchange when Obamacare launched. People had their insurance not working for months and they were more reasonable than some of you people here. Really, I’d say grow up.
Industries have built processes upon processes to tackle defective products. That’s why there’s warranties and return policies. You’re delusional to think this doesn’t happen in life. Even worse for software launches. In all my life I’ve never seen any software/games launch without major hiccups. They ALWAYS have major issues and that’s for good reason. There’s a level of complexity that makes it almost impossible to be free from issues. We’re all human - the best of us makes mistakes and have things that are outside our expectations. I genuinely recommend people to be accepting that things will go sideways and won’t always meet your expectations. Trust me, it makes living life happier than to be crying and bitching at every little thing that doesn’t go your way.
Agreed with everything. But trust me silence and sending hearts over something that barely works atm is not the correct behavior. You can be happy and voice your concerns. It takes 5 minutes. And hopefully someone with half the IQ from their team takes the time to read it.
Unless you missed it, they rushed the game so much, they will have to release a series of fixes. That they didn’t do for like 2-3 years. That are so pilled up they start to poke peoples eyes out.
This game has been cooking on slow fire without any care of the past bugs for 4-5 years. (Fixed it for you) The game released only and only because they sold out/took a loan. Whatever they did.
It’s not an either or situation. People can genuinely be happy about the potential of the product or the product itself, but have issues with how launch went. I personally didn’t experience what much of everyone else experienced, but I have had my fair share of bad launches with other games. Devs have indicated they took the issue to heart. They have kept us updated at every turn and even said they would do a post mortem on what went wrong. To hell with that with a lot of other companies. They will fix the issues and act like nothing happened.
As for your other comments, I’m assuming you played this game a long time ago, as did I. It’s not fair to say they rushed the game because it’s objectively not true. What this game is right now and what it used to be is night and day. I still remember the cracking sound of the crafting system and I still remember having trouble with Lagon’s hitbox issue. There has been countless improvements and bug fixes to the game. That doesn’t mean they don’t have more issues to fix. Bugs that have been around forever often happens in many software programs because companies have to prioritize what’s important and what’s not. That often leads to long-term issues (sometimes small, sometimes weirdly big) that just goes unresolved. It always happens in projects and that’s just the reality of it.
EHG just really like to wait until the last minutes before fixing stuff. They always were like that and I have no problem thinking they will always be like that in the future.
Some of those bug have been in the game for years. You’d think they would have fixed them in beta because thats the point of a beta, but I guess I have too much expectation for modern dev.
BG3 had bugs persisting from beta and it was still game of the year. They did eventually fix most bugs, with a stream of constant hotfixes and patches, but they did have much more people working on it than EHG does.
