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August 9, 2008. Buy this game today and we'll promise to make it better soon.
We've had to give low scores to games that had broken gameplay or missing features, some of which were even stated on the gaming box. Now, just about all these games have developers that stated patches coming soon or new content for free in the future. Some of those developers deliver, but some don't. And the question is as a gamer, should you buy a game that promises more even if it came with less?
The answer is no. For example, Supreme Commander for the 360 is extremely buggy and our score reflected that. Was a patch released? No. Because apparently, there is no problem with the game according to developers. But according to us, it crashes. So are developers legally bound to fixing problems we find as gamers?
The answer is also no. Even on the 360, there's been plenty of problems about the red rings, but Microsoft just ships you a refurbished 360. It has never admitted any problems with the console. It's the same thing for games. As a buyer, you are responsible for your purchase. It's not the responsibility of the developer to make a game that works flawlessly.
Actually, it's not even the developer's responsibility to make good games. Some of you may be old enough to have played E.T. on the 2600. We did, and it was crap. So they buried a few million of these in a landfill out in the desert. And we all know that the NES and Atari days were filled with crap games.
Even games like GTA4 which promise new content in the future does not promise that the new content will be any good. Fortunately, Take Two takes pride in the GTA franchise and probably won't let us down, but alot of developers do. The gaming packs that are popular today is the future of gaming as more companies rush to make money and sell franchises. There's alot of pressure by the world of business gamers don't care about when gaming, but this world is what's causing games to be released with missing content and bugs. Future content and patches are the solution, but as gamers, we shouldn't count on them and shouldn't buy games that promise to fix bugs in the future.
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