Should There Be Legal Ramifications for Knowingly Releasing Unfinished Product?

[Zebruh]

Consumers need to have some balls and stopping running to the store on release day.

Hell nikkas gotta stop even going out and pre-ordering these games. It wouldn't surprise me if publishers saw those pre-order numbers and rushed the project along before interest and #'s wane. It's getting to the point that I'm just gonna start waiting a week or two after release to pick up games because they all seem to have some sort of issue, and I wanna know if it'll fukk up my experience or not before dropping money.

Define unfinished product when it comes to a piece of software. Assassin's Creed Unity is a functional product and it's playable. I've played it. It might not be the best game it could have been but it works.

Sure these games are functional, but that doesn't excuse poor performance and the weird happenings in things like ACU, or terrible matchmaking systems and lack of party control in Halo. A lot of games just feel like they weren't tested extensively enough, or if they were, testers feedback got ignored. It's hard to believe someone played ACU from a testing standpoint, saw those faces and thought it was just cool and just said "games fine." A lot of games nowadays have a lot of really small things that should be resolved through/in testing phases, if there are any, or if devs listened to testers.

Destiny might've been accused of a lot of things, but the alpha and beta ensured a lot of the small issues got resolved, and that their online component functioned properly and that they could allocate resources where necessary for the official launch to go smooth.

 

[itsyoung!!]

I think the real crime is when companies release a game and have content locked then sell you it later in a form of "DLC" to me, that should be illegal. How you gonna sell me 60% of a game on purpose

if its on the disc, it should be playable

or like when a company like EA says "we got 5 expansions planned to be released int he next year yo ucan buy one individually or buy all at a discounted price "

but expansions used to be expansions, and take years to develop and add years to the life of the game until the next installment came out.

These expansions be like 2-3 new maps, 3-4 new guns and like 1-2 new vehicles. Thats not an expansion, thats a fukking map pack

that should be illegal.. to ALREADY have the expansions FINISHED by the time the RETAIL game comes out, ready to sell down the line, should also be illegal.

cause then we know you giving us an unfinished product to begin with.. and thats why BF4 was the last $ EA will see from me for awhile

They had what 4-5 expansions planned for BF4? fukk outta here with that shyt

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

I don't buy day one and I don't pay for DLC.

I don't need a game day one. I wait 2-3 months buy it at half the price and by then the game is actually what it should have been at launch.


Going "gold" means nothing anymore. Consumers are the new QA department.

DLC went from adding life to a game that sold well to a money making scheme. Devs cutting out sections of games to make more money.


So when people are like why would you want microsoft gone. They brought in online look at all the good its done I

Because I remember when games werent bug filled messes and DLC was just part of the game.