Paperboy Posts: 11 Joined: 7 May 2008 | COD4, Halo 3, Battlefield, and so on are all excellent online multiplayer experiences. My only problem is, why not try to fix them? Just because a game gets a 10 or 5 stars doesn't mean you can completely ditch it and say its complete. Online maintenance is definitely something that will keep me playing a game, and buy subsequent add-ons.
Some games pull this off very well. In fact, most games do. My only problem is that if 1,000 people are complaining about something, it doesn't mean that x - 1000 aren't. For example, COD4 definitely has its problems. I'm no master of anatomy but Infinity Ward seems to believe that the head has migrated to other parts of the body in the future, and that the area five feet around you counts as part of you. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but for a company with its own server to maintain constant updates, why is this a problem? There are many other examples of this, please add to this arguement if you would like to. |
Paperboy Posts: 48 Joined: 8 May 2008 | Cost, man power, time, all elements and reasons that these games arent "fixed". |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3057 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | The games industry is in a never-ending race to make their next title, with quality and bug control sacrificed for speed. We've gone from fully-functional releases to barely-betaware console games. When CONSOLE games, you know, the things that can't be patched, when those come out untested we are pretty much fucked. The only step left is to release games as alphaware and that's when I take up non-electronic hobbies again. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3430 Joined: 14 Jan 2008 | Khell_Sennet:
The games industry is in a never-ending race to make their next title, with quality and bug control sacrificed for speed. We've gone from fully-functional releases to barely-betaware console games. When CONSOLE games, you know, the things that can't be patched, when those come out untested we are pretty much fucked. The only step left is to release games as alphaware and that's when I take up non-electronic hobbies again.
no never speak like that. the world is a horrid place you're only safe in you're own home on your consoles/computer. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 977 Joined: 2 Jan 2008 | What I think we're all forgetting is that if they released alphaware as games, we'd have like 6 different versions of Duke Nukem Forever by now.
- J |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 526 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 | tiredinnuendo:
What I think we're all forgetting is that if they released alphaware as games, we'd have like 6 different versions of Duke Nukem Forever by now.
- J
We should be so lucky. I hold firm to my theory that they haven't even gotten THAT far on the game yet. |
COD4, Halo 3, Battlefield, and so on are all excellent online multiplayer experiences. My only problem is, why not try to fix them? Just because a game gets a 10 or 5 stars doesn't mean you can completely ditch it and say its complete. Online maintenance is definitely something that will keep me playing a game, and buy subsequent add-ons.
Some games pull this off very well. In fact, most games do. My only problem is that if 1,000 people are complaining about something, it doesn't mean that x - 1000 aren't. For example, COD4 definitely has its problems. I'm no master of anatomy but Infinity Ward seems to believe that the head has migrated to other parts of the body in the future, and that the area five feet around you counts as part of you. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but for a company with its own server to maintain constant updates, why is this a problem? There are many other examples of this, please add to this arguement if you would like to.