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> shipping broken games is a business decision Obviously, but just as obviously buying games on day 1 is a frustrating waste of time. We’ve reached a point wh

by Retric 3y ago

> shipping broken games is a business decision Obviously, but just as obviously buying games on day 1 is a frustrating waste of time. We’ve reached a point where it’s just not worth the hassle. I’m not cherry picking just looking at categories. ET wasn’t even close to a AAA game, but look at the top 10 games from each year (total sales or preorders) and you’ll see a significant increase in day 1 bugs. Start looking at AA games and some of those never get the patches they need to be playable. People may have complained about the balance etc of each game, but Diablo III didn’t have anything like the massive number of bugs Diablo IV dropped with.

jayd16 3y ago
Hmm what bugs? D4 had a pretty smooth launch, didn't it? But also > We’ve reached a point where it’s just not worth the hassle. YOU have reach that point. As many do. And that's fine. Clearly there's still plenty of people who would rather play a somewhat buggy game sooner than wait. Why do we need to get on a high horse about it?
- jayd16 3y ago
  Funny enough this thread about how well D4 is made just happened to be on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1byutzf/diablo_4s_engine_is_absurdly_well_optimized_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1byutzf/diablo_4s_e... There's so little actual data in this thread its really hard to make any conclusions.
  - Retric 3y ago
    That’s 8 months after release, when it launched people were complaining about everything from floating monsters, broken quests, and a slew of crashes and about 12 different bugs preventing them from starting the game and connecting to servers. Personally my favorite was this one: I came across a post mentioning the possibility of transferring items between the standard server and the seasonal server. At first, I thought it was a joke, but the method was very detailed, and eventually, a few users who followed the method actually succeeded in transferring their items, standard to seasonal and vice-versa. What's even worse, one of the players successfully uses this bug, allowing a seasonal character and a standard character to group together. https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/15h2dlf/serious_bugs_are_detected/ https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/15h2dlf/serious_bu... That’s the kind of bug where you wonder what architecture even enables it to happen. But apparently a similar thing occurred in D2 LoD.

by Retric 3y ago

jayd16 3y ago

Hmm what bugs? D4 had a pretty smooth launch, didn't it? But also > We’ve reached a point where it’s just not worth the hassle. YOU have reach that point. As many do. And that's fine. Clearly there's still plenty of people who would rather play a somewhat buggy game sooner than wait. Why do we need to get on a high horse about it?

jayd16 3y ago
Funny enough this thread about how well D4 is made just happened to be on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1byutzf/diablo_4s_engine_is_absurdly_well_optimized_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1byutzf/diablo_4s_e... There's so little actual data in this thread its really hard to make any conclusions.
- Retric 3y ago
  That’s 8 months after release, when it launched people were complaining about everything from floating monsters, broken quests, and a slew of crashes and about 12 different bugs preventing them from starting the game and connecting to servers. Personally my favorite was this one: I came across a post mentioning the possibility of transferring items between the standard server and the seasonal server. At first, I thought it was a joke, but the method was very detailed, and eventually, a few users who followed the method actually succeeded in transferring their items, standard to seasonal and vice-versa. What's even worse, one of the players successfully uses this bug, allowing a seasonal character and a standard character to group together. https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/15h2dlf/serious_bugs_are_detected/ https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/15h2dlf/serious_bu... That’s the kind of bug where you wonder what architecture even enables it to happen. But apparently a similar thing occurred in D2 LoD.