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As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Reviews Collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ Dev Admits It ‘Completely Underestimated’ Excitement for the Game (www.ign.com)
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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is why I don’t buy or play games on release day. It’s never worth the aggravation.

Just wait a week ffs. Why do you all NEED it on release day? Yall are part of the problem.

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I buy a product, it should work properly regardless of what day I bought it.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

True in theory but in the absence of regulation to that effect if you don't vote with your wallet either companies have literally no incentive to ensure that.

[–] Noblesavage@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Patient gamers unite! I wait until that game I want hits AT LEAST -75% off.

The only exception I've had for that rule for myself in recent memory is for Monsterhunter games.

You look hard enough (or maybe not very hard at all) and you can see which developers and companies can't do launch days very well, or release too early. Blizzard/Activision, CDProject Red, Ubisoft, and Microsoft come to mind.

It's the smaller to mid-size companies that have something to prove that release something more polished. Not always the case, but you've gotta stand out somehow.