Why are so many games broken?

Will Hinch says "Video games are complicated beasts. Despite the countless hours of painstaking work that go into honing these masterpieces, broken games appear to be on the increase. This winter has seen the release of an unprecedented number of games riddled with what the developers call ‘technical issues’. But why are multi-million pound games released with a series of crippling (what we call) bugs?"

[Blackleg-sanji]

Because they are rushed out to meet release dates pretty simple answer.

Ill even use 2 examples, 1.driveclub imagine that game releasing as it is right now..makes u drool alil doesn't it probably would bee sitting at 80-90 meta. 2. Halo mcc, they needed it out for the holidays but imagine if they took their time released it like say feb 2015 it would have been a huge hit and probably would have taken attention away from the order

[CloudRap]

1.Customers who blindly proerder
2.Lazy, incompetent devs
3.Pressure from publishers to meet deadlines.

[ginganinja]

4. Not enough pre-orders/interest/budgets run out, so publishers put out what they've got to try and cut their losses.

[Elwenil]

Yeah, we know why they are broken, the real question is, why do so many gamers put up with it and blindly swallow whatever trash they put out?

[Kornholic]

Here, meet my friend Post-purchase rationalization.

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[s45gr32]

Simple answer we are an impatient bunch.

[SaveFerris]

I'm fine if a game gets delayed in order to fix any major problems. Games shouldn't be rushed out if they aren't ready (for the most part).

[Blastoise]

Because people seem to buy them anyway

[4theplayers]

Because Ubisoft exists.

[Godmars290]

Because people will buy anything.

[Gwiz]

Because preorders are covering a lot of expenses.

[Perjoss]

Its not fair on the developers, they just want to make great games but they are pressured by people that dont care about the games or the gamers (publishers, shareholders etc)

[Jag-T1000]

Because DRM exist in some way. Can't even buy a new game without it needing a patch to work first.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Computer programming is not an exact science. Even the most seasoned programmers create errors when creating code, but some programmers are worse than others. Annual franchises, such as COD, Assassin's Creed, Madden, and NBA2k are guaranteed to have glitches and bugs, so people who buy these franchises have no one to blame but themselves. As for other games, like Drive Club and Halo Mcc testing the games under "real world" and "real time" conditions will help identify issues with server loads and connectivity, but those issues are minor when compared to games that have "rubber banding," constant crashes, environmental glitches, and unfinished areas in a game.
Some claim that pre-orders are the main culprit behind these games that are broken. This is absolutely not the case. Ubisoft has been releasing broken Assassin's Creed games for at least 5 years. Activision and EA have been releasing broken unfinished games for far longer and every time these McVideo Games gets released, millions of people run out and buy them, (Some of you posting in this thread own some if not all of these cookie cutter games) then these same people complain about the games being broken. You want publishers to stop selling broken games? Don't buy annual franchises, don't buy games from publishers who consistently release broken games. When the money starts to dry up, the publishers will give developers the time they need to debug, test, and re-test their games.

I've pre-ordered plenty of games, Wolfenstein, Shadow Of Mordor, TLOU Remastered, and all of them work just fine. There's no correlation between pre-ordering and broken games. It's a strawman argument.

[theFAYEsorceress]

because enough people keep buying it which makes it ok. if people stopped buying unfinished games they would not release them as they have been. same with online subs and dlc prices. people complain and complain but never actually do anything about it. gaming is extremely limited when you actually think about it. you either stick with the big companies or you're even more limited.

[Phoenix76]

Because we as gamers fall for their lies and the BS review vids that get put out.

Devs get told by Publishers to put a game out by a certain date.
Publisher then has a deal with big review site.
Review site give out a skewed review of said game due to contracts with said publishers (whereby said review site gets access to early copys of game and freebies(look @ an IGN vid you'll see what I mean)and told to only show the good stuff, never the bad).
We then foolishly buy the game and get screwed over.