Creidim77 wrote...
Bagenholt wrote...
Aye but in the 90s fewer of these buggy games were released with no way to update on a console. Now that broadband is commonplace that should not be used as an excuse for poor quality control.
Wrong!
If there were fewer errors, it's due to small ROM size.
But unlike now, where a patch can be pushed for consoles, in the old Cart/CD-Rom days, you could get game breaking bugs that were in the shipped product, and you couldn't do ANYTHING about it, short of a product replacement from some publishers.

True, but the issue is that one CAN update the product after shipment. Thus, we still don't have a patch. I know that patches go through checks etc, but it's been a while now. Christmas will only 100x the problems and completely screw up everything. From rational comments on the forums, spam that will cause problems to communication (aka, problem finding, bug reports). Not to mention the overall correct whine coming from the little things that could have been patched aeons ago (1-3 weeks after publishing it).
People often forget that Christmas sales is important, but also the media frenzy after it is also important. With this i mean that x amount of gamers will get the game as a christmas present and they will (they always do) have a opinion about it AFTER christmas. What do you think whiny talk will do the image of the game....
Sell 10 000x games for xmas, get 9 000x complaints. That's going to show.
Ps. storm is coming...