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Star Citizen's Chris Roberts Opines on 'Saving Anthem' - MMORPG.com
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Star Citizen's Chris Roberts Opines on 'Saving Anthem' - MMORPG.com
In a new interview with Newsweek, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts segued into a discussion of Anthem and what steps he would take to fix the game. Roberts believes, according to the interview, that gamers often have unreasonable expectations compounded by their hatred of EA. "A lot of gamers don't understand quite how difficult it is to deliver everything working flawlessly," Roberts stated. "The expectations keep ramping up and may be higher than people are humanly possible of delivering."
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They set their expectations to high?
Not the developers overselling their product?
Who would have thought he would go for that argument...
Lol!
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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I do agree with the hypothesis. Just not the way he explains it. Hopefully he hasn't have to use this Hypothesis to defend SC when it comes out.
Sure....
How about if you promise to deliver a game, actually deliver it? Games releasing in a state of beta, yet it's the player's fault because developing a game is challenging and they should be excused of anything bad happening.
This coming from Chris?
How ironic.
So when gamers want a somehow playable game for 60 + dollars, it's their fault for not expecting any issues and be like, "that's fine, it will pass..."
How is it unreasonable to expect somehow playable game upon its release date ?
If it was alpha or beta then i would agree with him, but there were some many issues on RELEASE DATE.
I remember waiting for Diablo 2 back in the day, when it came out it lived up to what they stated it was. These days I think developers tend to exaggerate the details of their games to generate over the top publicity and hype with with half truths, which is what comes back to bite them in their own ass when it comes to consumers feeling fleeced.
Quite true.
Had Sean Murray just been honest about No Man's Sky, the backlash hadn't been that big.
One good example about unreasonable expectations is The Outer Worlds. The lead devs Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, have openly talked about this subject and have been very honest about what their game is and what it is not.
He has over 20 games out
MAGA
You'd expect this from the developer whos conning people out of money for years, and cant keep their own goals. This is basic projection, they can't keep their goals, so instead of blaming themselves, they're shifting the blame on the consumers.
That workplace is bet is really toxic.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Vote with your feet, do not pre-order, wait for the reviews then as I do if they get the sort of reviews they did, think about if you ever want to try them out. NMS is a possibility but I have so many other games to play, games that were a finished product when they launched.
Well played, my friend. Well played.