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It happens with videogames all the time. Developers get pushed to hit an unrealistic ship date, the game gets panned by critics, fans revolt, when 6 more months
by moultano 16y ago
It happens with videogames all the time. Developers get pushed to hit an unrealistic ship date, the game gets panned by critics, fans revolt, when 6 more months could have fixed it.
"A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever."
-Shigeru Miyamoto
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That said, this attitude is coming from an era when it was difficult to update games after release, so I'm not sure to what extent it still applies.
- dools 16y agoYes but if they reduced the feature set and focussed on getting those right (maybe even producing a different game for 1.0) then they wouldn't have a bad game, they'd just have a different game.
- dagw 16y agowhen 6 more months could have fixed it. Only if you have enough cash to pay everybody for 6 more month.
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