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In this day and age, why do you guys play games right when they are released?
Cryomatrix
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I've done this before.
- I bought Path of Exile expansion for $40 when I could have just waited and gotten the rest of it for free. But I needed a game to play and y'all know I love me some Path of Exile.
- I also bought subnautica: Below zero when it was clearly not finished but that was because I had just finished the first game and I needed to hit the $30 mark on steam to get $5 off . . . (yes, I'm a marketing tool). [I also bought Ark at $20]
- I did jump into Conan exiles but that was like 7-8 months after release and I was in a intra-PoE phase.
But I am looking at the Anthem thread and it's like, you know the game is going to be a shit show at release, so why jump in. These days, they get a game to like minimum playing level and then release and fix it later. I guess it is a nice way to get someone to pay you for beta testing their game lol.
Any way, what are your reasons for jumping into new games as they release. I understand it, if it was like 10 years prior, but today . . . not so sure.
- I bought Path of Exile expansion for $40 when I could have just waited and gotten the rest of it for free. But I needed a game to play and y'all know I love me some Path of Exile.
- I also bought subnautica: Below zero when it was clearly not finished but that was because I had just finished the first game and I needed to hit the $30 mark on steam to get $5 off . . . (yes, I'm a marketing tool). [I also bought Ark at $20]
- I did jump into Conan exiles but that was like 7-8 months after release and I was in a intra-PoE phase.
But I am looking at the Anthem thread and it's like, you know the game is going to be a shit show at release, so why jump in. These days, they get a game to like minimum playing level and then release and fix it later. I guess it is a nice way to get someone to pay you for beta testing their game lol.
Any way, what are your reasons for jumping into new games as they release. I understand it, if it was like 10 years prior, but today . . . not so sure.
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Now Anthem, and really any game that heavily depends on an multiplayer aspects. I fully expect there to be bugs and balance issues. Monster Hunter i didn't pick up until it was 50% off. But I don't know why people are surprised online games have issues out the door, this isn't a new thing. I buy it, expecting those issues. But I also expect those issues to be resolved.
1. Boredom
2. I play with a group of friends. It's easier to get everyone involved when a game is releasing than it is 6 months later when the hoopla has died down.
May not make sense, but those are my reasons.
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My point was more about the quality (efficiency and bugs) of the game than the price, but since bugs don't seem to bother you, then you wouldn't have an issue with it.
In reference to money on games:
Well, I see your point about money. In reality, money isn't really an issue when it comes to entertainment. Regardless of whatever I spend on video games or try to save, my wife's spending blows it all out of the water. I also spent $400 bucks on Andrea Bocelli tickets, bought 2 for my bro-in-law and his significant other. So I agree with you there.
People and how they spend money basically comes down to what people value vs what other people value. For example, I eat to survive, I don't survive to eat. So I hate eating out, paying for food at an outside restaurant always bothers me. It's such a shitty expenditure, but each to their own. Then again, you may not spend much on a car (not that you need one in Boston) but then again i bought an 80K Tesla 2.5 years ago. (I got rid of it cuz i was sick of paying for it).
I always try to buy all games on sale, not that it matters much as i spend $50/month on Red Bull, my wife will still spend an extra $500/month on bullshit and when i get back into Entropia, i start putting money into that game (deposited a total of $250).
But the way I look at it, saving a few bucks here or there is still better than not saving a few bucks here or there. Man, if I wasn't married, i'd be so rich now (money) but my soul would be poor (love my kid to death)
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Nahh.. really I seldom buy a game first day. I will wait a few months before I buy a game, and read reviews, unless someone in my static plays it, then I will just buy it and play it with them.. for as long as I can.. depending on how much it sucks.
This backlog is so long that the Witcher 3 will be retro by the time I get to it and I won't know the difference because I haven't played a game from this generation yet anyway.
On the plus side it looks like 2019 will be good for us ARPG fans with the games slated to release. Once I have something to grind away on I'm not as likely to jump into a new game when it's released. That said I am enjoying the hell out of Anthem despite its flaws. I just hope they can fix it up/release the new content in a timely manner to ensure it's viability going forward.
2. Anthem is not a shit show, it has some bugs, sure but not nearly as bad as many other games I have seen released. Essentially EVERY MMORPG from WoW on has been an utter fuck story at release.
3. I usually invest in the future and I realize what I am doing when I do it so I am not upset when it's not as advertised.
4. I also refrain from developing ideas about how the game "will be" until I play it, so again not surprised.
5. Having said all of that, it sucks that one has to lower and or remove all expectations of a decent game being released initially. The complete lack of development standards is sickening and one would hope that by this stage of this hobby development studios would have started taking pride in their products. If they do, I don't see it.
They keep releasing trash and we keep buying it. So yeah, at times I am part of the problem.
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Reasons To Buy On Day One
- You and your friends are going to play it together and you're all excited about it. Something like Titanfall 1 where the main story was a co-op experience, was one fantastic example of this. Borderlands 2 as well.
- You review games. No one cares about a review you do for a game that's been out six months, unless it's been a quiet sleeper that picked up steam later. But if you're serious about getting your reviews noticed, you better be first. In fact, these days you need to be better than first, and start getting some early access exclusives.
- All of your friends already have it and are talking about it. Yeah, this is arguably the worst reason of the ones listed, but if you want to be able to participate meaningfully in the conversation, or you don't want the entire plot of a story based game ruined by your blabbermouth buddies, then you might wanna get it when it comes out and stay ahead of your buddies.
- You'll get left behind, or have a lot to learn. There are games that I've kind of always wanted to try, but since I've put them off for so long, I feel like there's no way that I can be competitive now and the learning curve would be too high. If I'm going to spend six months being bad at something because the rest of the crowd has been perfecting their skills for five years, then I'm not too interested.
Reasons Not To Buy On Day OneSkipping the thousands of reasons and problems of game design,i can get right to the simple reason,gamers MOST of them don't have a clue what they want ,mostly they just join the crowd,the popularity vote.I find it almost comical all those streamers/players played and acted like they loved Fortnite,then a couple months later "this game sucks" and a train of streamers all FOLLOW each other,not back to PUBG oh no can't do that,they run for a NEW game and begin the RACE to the top yet again until they start complaining about that game.
So the more important question would be "WHY are so many gamer's buying into games they quit such a short time later?"The answer will be the same,tons of clueless people.,you can't argue when it is right in your face obvious.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
- Always wait for player reviews, and spot check player walkthroughs.
- Triple A games are always "hard broken" and takes months to fix.
- Stay away from Triple A games anymore, their getting greedier to satisfy the investors.
- Stay a year behind in releases of Triple A. Cheaper and fixed.
-Stay away from graphically intense games... Their ALWAYS shallow !
Follow these rules and you'll never have a problem.
2. Wanting to be able to say I have played from launch.
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