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What's With All The Buggy AAA Launches These Days?

From Xfire: "Frontier Developments CEO David Braben recently issued a personal apology for the buggy state in which Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, the space-sim expansion that let commanders roam around outside their cockpits for the first time, launched. This latest disastrous release of a highly anticipated AAA project comes hot on the heels of Cyberpunk 2077's and Outriders' own troubled first steps. What's with all the buggy AAA launches these days?"

LordoftheCritics1054d ago

They're not buggy, just added difficulty.

isarai1054d ago

Stop supporting it, dont buy games till they are fixed, or just dont buy them period when they ship broken. They follow money, and shipping broken means they can save on development cost, ship it premature, make their money, then use the money to fix it later. In most cases it's never fully fixed tho, and sometimes never fixed. I'm tired of it, so i just dont buy most AAA games anymore

Father__Merrin1054d ago

I remember all the issues with watchdogs 1 the developers issued a statement that they will take on the concerns and try better next time

CptDville1054d ago

Totally agree.

Cyberpunk was the last pre-order I fell for. CDPR taught me a good lesson that no gaming company can be trusted (ever).

From now on, I will only buy games months after it's release. The same for consoles, first day buyers always are more susceptible to worse hardware

smolinsk1054d ago

Way wait months if the game comes out and is fine?

CYALTR1053d ago

You can usually pick it up for half price by then. Games prices drop quickly these days. I mean, if you haven't played it, it is still the same game 6 months later. Maybe better if there were launch issues.

Double_O_Revan1054d ago

I wait 6 months on all these big games before I consider buying them. If it hasn't been fixed by then, then it probably won't be. Plus by then it's usually way cheaper.

TheGreatGazoo301054d ago

I've always done that (not exactly 6 months). Generally I wait for 2 major patches before playing massive open world games. It's not a new problem, covid maybe increased it a little. The reason it's noticed more now is Twitter and waaaay more massive open world games.

Darkborn1054d ago

I mean every time there's a delay devs get death threats and boycotts. Whenever they release a buggy game they also get death threats though.

NeoGamer2321054d ago

The threats should disappear. That is on idiotic gamers.

But, the developers and publishers have to ensure that they release something more then a beta on day one. I used to buy day one a ton. But, now I just can't justify it. Why buy day one beta and help the developer and publisher work out issues only to have a definitive edition in 6-12 months at half the price and none of the pain of being an early adopter?

Also, developers and publishers have to stop announcing release dates when they don't know for sure they will get there. They need to be accurate and set realistic expectations.

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NeodeosX1054d ago

It's called a pandemy, and devs working as best as they can in work-from-home conditions + games systems becoming more and more advanced and complex meaning far more bugs than before to track and fix.

porkChop1054d ago

No. We had this problem before the pandemic even started. Since patches became viable with the PS360, devs have been releasing games in an increasingly unfinished state. There's a culture in the game industry that perpetuates releasing games broken and lacking polish because it can just be patched later.

DJStotty1051d ago (Edited 1051d ago )

Buggy games have been a thing ever since the "Day 1 patch" has been introduced.

Sigh... i remember the good old days of buying a game on cartridge, whacking it in the console, experiencing zero load times, and the game working as advertised.

Maybe we should rewind and the consoles should all launch their games on cartridges/SD cards.

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Source Code For The Witcher 3 & Cyberpunk 2077 Has Allegedly Been Compromised

Source code for CD Projekt's action role-playing games The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 have allegedly been compromised.

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just_looken3d ago

Well they are using unreal engine now thanks to there work culture and horrific job on making cyberpunk so for the future no impact.

But it will be interesting to see what mods will be made

https://rebel-wolves.com/

just_looken1d 23h ago

7 disagrees shows how many look at one dlc that had a rip off fight from ghost in the shell and goes wow what a goat team i love cdpr while ignoring that they only made 2 games that were good witcher 2/3 in 20yrs.

But its a new world we want a criminal that support's legal murder as president/support shoplifting love toxic work environments and have a mass casualty event every other day.

GhostMirror1d 23h ago

I’ll admit I didn’t play it at launch, but Cyberpunk 2077 is a really good game now.

And who the hell knows what you’re even going on about in your second paragraph here.

EazyC2d ago

Wait a min...I swear to god CP2077's source code got leaked before. CDPR needs to stop using "password123" for all their accounts 😅

just_looken2d ago

Na its hundreds ex employees no doubt just getting there revenge.

Profchaos1d 21h ago (Edited 1d 21h ago )

This is the same leak the threat actors have been trying to sell the source code after cd project didn't pay the ransom.

They didn't manage to sell the source code to any company largely because it would be unethical for say EA to buy it so the threat actors failed to find a buyer.

After they failed to make any money they went through with their threat of simply giving it away.

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Cyberpunk 2077's Sequel Should Bite the Bullet on an Industry Trend

Cyberpunk 2077's launch resulted in a loss of goodwill with gamers, but there is a way to earn it back with the upcoming sequel.

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anast2d ago

They will need to add everything they promised in the first one and not over promise on the second one.

just_looken2d ago

They also need to drop esg then hire employees that have knowledge not hire them because they have a set of tits.

Official video they hired people to fill the esg clipboard

Hofstaderman2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

As somebody who has been playing the tabletop games since the 90s and was let down on launch by my PS4 version, you can bet I'm not going the preorder any sequel.

nmbr1esq2d ago

3rd person option, and everything else that was originally promised. Next don't force agenda driven naratives. Finally, release a finished product without need for day one patches.

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World of Warcraft Opens Beta Sign-Ups for 'The War Within'

Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.