We’re basically paying blizzard to be beta testers for them at this point…
10 years ago games would be dead on arrival if they had close to the amount of bugs games have today. And we have to constantly do micro transactions to own the entire game.
When did we as a community up and decide to accept this bullcrap where games can be released and not even be beta-ready yet.
And knowing how big a company Blizzard is it frustrates me even more seeing there are so many bugs that takes forever to fix (if ever it ever is fixed).
Of course, but what’s your point here? It’s not like everyone is addicted to every game being released?
The gaming community accepted all this bullsh*t(lol at this censoring) at some point, something that doesnt happen in any other industry that I know off? Imagine if this happened when you bought a membership to a golf course but when you got there the grass wasnt cut so you had to wait for the employed to cut the grass first, and then half-way in you have to skip a few holes because they’re closed down cause of insects swarming the area. And last two holes you have to pay extra to play so you can finish your 18 holes.
No one would go back to that. yet the game industry is exactly like that (and lets not pretend like the vast majority that play games are hardcore nerds like us. they play a bit of sims, some mobile games or on the weekends).
And sure, they hire all kinds of experts to make games addictive, but you have to play them before they become addictive you know. 20 years ago, no one would get addicted because people would stop playing games being like this and play something that is actually working well.
Also, how the HELL does a game released 20 years ago have more bugs now than back then? hahaha
But if that was the only golf course around, maybe they would. They would complain, but they would still go there.
Where do you have another WoW? Nowhere, that’s where. You have other MMORPG’s, but not another WoW.
A better example would be to say: if the golf course had issues, how many would choose to go play mini-golf instead. And sure, some would, but the “true golfers” that have been golfing for 20 years would probably still prefer to complain a bit and see if things get sorted, rather than just start playing mini-golf.
While I do agree quality has severely declined, bugs existed back then as well.
The thing is:
Back then WoW was “the” thing. Nothing would come close to it, not by a mile.
Many people got enticed by it, loved it, kept playing it.
Most of the people playing today are people that have played this game for several years.
Games weren’t incomplete on release back in the 90s and early naughties. Did games have bugs? Yes, they always have had. Even old console games like Super Mario on NES had bugs in it. Still perfectly playable and most players never even noticed these bugs.
Completely different story today where there are thousands upon thousands of bugs when a game releases.
"But if that was the only golf course around, maybe they would. "
Yeah, Im not going to argue with someone that think there’s a lack of options among video games today… We will clearly never agree if you’re THAT far removed.
Definitely agree there is an urge by companies to release games even before they’re finished, can’t deny that.
But these games are also online, meaning updates can be done, which wasn’t the case in the nineties.
I’m not saying there aren’t options for video games. What I’m saying is that it’s not right to say that they’re WoW. They’re not. They may be similar, but they’re not the same. Story is not the same, characters are not the same, along with lots of other things in the game and gameplay that are different too.
And it’s funny that you talk about there being other options, yet here you are, playing WoW.
Sure, you can find some incomplete games back in the day. But they also flopped hard.
Name one game from the 90s or early naughties that was this bad. I’ll wait.
And also, what is the reasoning behind all of you that are defending this bs from Blizzard?
were not defending blizzard but some times people got a bit too mmuch tint on their glasses to see things for what they were back in the days if u say classic was complete then it’s wrong already there.
"I’m not saying there aren’t options for video games. What I’m saying is that it’s not right to say that they’re WoW. "
You missed my point, this isnt exclusively about wow. Wow classic is just an extreme example of how little care game devolopers put into their games now.
It’s unfair to compare today’s games with games made in the 90’s (this is in regards to your previous post).
The technology available was far less, and if we were to compare, most of the 90’s games would pale in comparison to quite a few of today’s games in most aspects (not just graphic-wise).
Do you expect games running on 1mb of drive space to be as thorough as games running on 100gb? The room for content is beyond anything that old games could dream of.
What changed from the 90’s until today was your perspective on games. That is the main reason you think games today are bad. And i’m not saying they’re all good, plenty of them are rubbish, but to throw in the “i’ll wait” line just shows how you fail to understand that as children, we would settle for stuff like Super Mario, that was, by today’s standards, a rubbish game.
Could agree with this if it actually got better… but with better technology it’s actually gotten worse.
No, and I never said that games are bad today. I’m talking about the coding and bugs, not the design.
Do you expect games running on 1mb of drive space to be as thorough as games running on 100gb? The room for content is beyond anything that old games could dream of.
I expect that things I pay PREMIUM amounts for (yes, Wow is one of the most expensive PC games out there if you look at the cost of the game + subscriptions (and even in-game purchases) will work. This isnt about my perspective changing or anything like that, it’s simply a standard I have and have had since I were young.
You might not have any standards for what you pay for but I do.
I love Wow Classic (hence why I even bother to post on these forums full of blizz fanboys) but it is very much so sullied by the infinite amount of bugs and bullsh*t coming from Blizzard.
And this is exactly what wow did originally. They hired all the prople necessary to add little bells and whistles, colors and dopamine reward schemes for exactly that purpose. To get you hooked just like an addict is to drugs.
But i got a nice little note on the forums here not so long ago when i pointed out exactly the same you did. The “nice” little note stated that the “community” thinks that my comment was negatice.
Like a give a rats rear end what the linkes of a few forum trolls think. Its the same old people who post here. These handfull of people, yes you - you know who you are - are hardly a true representation of the regular wow player. Most of whom do not even post here.
Dishing out drugs is abusive. Dish out drugs and its bad. Dish out digital pixels with dopamine reward schemes as well as note this ont eh forums and thenyou will get notified of your behavior from forums users. LMFAO. whatever
