Alright let's talk about it. This year video game launches have been some of the worst we have seen. Assassins Creed Unity, WOW Warlords of Draenor, Farcry 4, Watch Dogs, Halo Master Chief collection, ESO, Fable Anniversary, etc etc etc. This year we have had some of the worst launches we have ever seen. Whether it be massive FPS issues, popin, crashes, glitches, or character model glitches, consumers have struggled through many problems when trying to play the latest games. I am an advocate of waiting a bit before buying a new game due to these very issues, however the problem of horrific launches still lies in the hands of the developer. It is completely unacceptable behavior if your game does not run properly or at all after the transaction. Lets talk Ubisoft.
Except for Child of Light, name me one Ubisoft game that was released this year that had a launch free of technical complications. Farcry 4 may be the least affected of Ubisoft's latest releases but there are still problems when trying to record game play and with the frame rate when in the main town. Remember Watch Dogs, the game hyped up i the past couple of years to be the best looking and best game of all time, remember when it released? Not only were the graphics on PC downgraded from the initial E3 reveal in 2012, but the graphics were found turned off in the murky depths of the games files, there were better graphics that were deliberately disabled. Also the frame rate was nothing to write home about constantly dropping and struggling to achieve 60 FPS on high end rigs. Assassins Creed Unity still suffers from frame rate issues, popin, and model issues. When your game struggles to achieve 60 FPS on high end gaming PC's, your optimization was inadequate.
Warlords of Draenor with people getting stuck in the ground and your garrison bugging out, a necessary part of the questing experience didn't work. Not to mention the 5000 person que to log into the bugged mess of the expansion. While Warlords is easily the best WOW expansion ever made, the launch was also the worst launch WOW has ever had. Halo the Master Chief's collection's matchmaking would not work with people searching for a lobby for hours to find the lobby had been bugged and thrown back into the que. ESO, well that was just a bad game with multiple issues, seriously just watch the AngryJoeShow's angry review about the game he explains it perfectly.
This type of behavior is unacceptable and needs to be put down before it gets out of hand. Devlopers and publishers will keep pushing out unfinished games to us if we refuse to show them that as consumers we will not stand for this. STOP PREORDERING VIDEO GAMES, THERE IS NO BENEFIT TO IT, stop buying day one releases of Video Games, wait a month or a few and most likely the price will drop, it will go on sale, and it will have had plenty of patches (hopefully). Vote for the business practices you like with your wallet.
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