• li10
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    1 year ago

    I’d say they’ve really got the game to a good place at this point. In ways it still isn’t perfect, but if it had been like this at release then people would’ve absolutely loved it.

    It’s something I think about for quite a lot of open world games, but it always seems like a waste that companies just move on from building up a game.

    Really feels like they could spend years just adding to the world they’ve built.

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      1 year ago

      Gamers proved to them that it didn’t matter if the game sucked on launch. Why keep building free updates when you can dump money into a new game? Which will most certainly be broken at launch again. Preorders need to stop being a thing and then we won’t have this type of mess anymore.

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t pre-ordered since Stellaris. I bought in the launch week when I was sure that the game of desire was actually playale and fun.

        Preorder FOMO shit can miss me, I have gacha games for that.

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          1 year ago

          You and I don’t, but gods, every time a new game trailer drops, the Discord communities I’m in all go HYPE HYPE HYPE I’m preordering. Or you can just see it from the YouTube comments. Too many idiots giving their money before a product has been proven.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t worry about the complaints of people who pre-order anymore. I sit back and eat popcorn watching them rage about the quality of the launch title after paying full retail.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve Kickstarter, when I wanna give money to struggling artists who may or may not deliver on time (hi, Poots!) Big studios can kiss my ass. And I say this as a fan of CDPR! I almost preordered CP2077, because I felt bad not paying full price for The Witcher 3. But then I remembered it just fucking encourages them. I’d rather have paid for a print copy of the artbook, to give them extra money. Ah well.

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      1 year ago

      That’s why I was excited about the online partffew years ago - imagine gtav but in night city, backed by CDPR? If done well it’s be printing money for them and guarantee constant updates and improvements for us. Unfortunately it just wasn’t meant to be it seems :/