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Banana Software; Ripes at the customers

• woleium 3y ago
  Games are unique that folks seem to want to purchase on release. I have friends who will wait for the 3rd point release (or service pack/ whatever) of windows to upgrade, but will buy a game as soon as it’s available and complain bitterly about the bugs. Games aren't like they were when they were pressed to cd/dvd anymore. They don't seem to see the irony of this.
  • dagmx 3y ago
    Those are very different things though in terms of risk assessment . If you upgrade to a broken OS version, that affects a massive number of things you do on your system including possibly your livelihood. If you install a broken game, the issues are almost always completely isolated to that single game, and games are things you can live with being broken.
    • crtasm 3y ago
      I think the point is that these are people well aware that a new release of any software is going to have issues, yet they still buy the games at launch.
  • squeaky-clean 3y ago
    It's because games are more like media than software from a consumption perspective. People want to watch a movie while it's still new, which is why theaters want up front exclusivity. Songs are "hot" for a while. TV shows are better when you're watching it around the same time as a lot of other people. Sure you can watch Breaking Bad for the first time right now, enjoy it, and have some good conversation about it with a few people. But it was different when every week half of your office or classroom was talking about the latest episode. I still don't recommend buying games on launch date most of the time because of the current state of the industry. But it makes sense to me why people do it.
• ted_bunny 3y ago
  If this isn't a common term, it needs to be. Bananaware?