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Gaming Gripes

You might think it's April Fool's, but completely monetizing the industry isn't a funny concept

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Another main offender is patching a game on release and releasing games that have a million bugs. This used to mainly be a PC issue a few years back, when we had games on the PS2, Xbox and further back without internet access, updates were out of the question and so were patches. What you released was pretty much the final product and near flawless.
 
The attitude today is that when you set a release date you have to keep to it no matter what, who cares if content isn’t done or doesn’t work properly, we can fix that in a few months right, no rush. The first thing I have to do with a game I purchase now is after I’ve first updated my console to the latest software, waited half an hour installing it to my hardrive is then install a patch. There’s another half an hour gone. When I buy a game now it’s not truly mine (not that it ever was in the first place according to companies) I have to wait until THEY allow me to play it, being made to wait longer so they could release something incomplete just to meet a shipping order.
 
 
Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that games are getting more advanced and innovative and all the great stuff in between. It’s just that the process is getting more and more distant; there isn’t so much as a plug-in-and-play mentality anymore like there used to be.
 
Now it’s more like; buy the game, (decide which version first!), take it home, stick in it the drive, wait for an update, wait for it to install, wait for the patch, now you may start, oh wait, fill in your details so we connect you to our store. Then the console promptly flies out of the window. Playing a game seems too much like, well, work these days, where’s the joy to be had there?
 
Can you imagine if a company created a game in which you played as man on a journey to actually play his game? Perhaps there would be some kind of Heavy Rain inspired QTE’s where he could either make a coffee or cut off his hand while the patch installs. Now that would be one of the most emotionally engaging experiences that I would ever have in my sweet life, though I’d probably commit seppuku with the controller while it was installing.

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