Stop pre-buying games? Buying them on release day? Buying them instead once they get fixed?

Practice a little patience and maybe the industry would get better for it?

This is just not true. I've played both games for hundreds of hours on console and the only real issue I had was that savegames periodically wouldn't load in Fallout New Vegas and I'd have to use a workaround. I do happen to also have PC versions of Fallout 3 and have modded it a bit, but absolutely not because the console version was unplayable in any way.

Those who are experiencing numerous game-breaking bugs in Fallout 4 are a minority.

But yes, if it bothers people that a game might have a bug in it when it's launched, wait a few months before buying it. Fallout 4 was the first game I'd pre-ordered in years and I actually expected it to have far more bugs than it did. A pleasant surprise.

Didn't that just svck?

But no, i'm not seeing games becoming more broken as of late. Only one in recent memory i've played is Just Cause 3, that had terrible performance problems. But even that was resolved for me by just disabling V-Sync. No idea if they've patched it since then, but it was playable.


I prefer that to games being left full of bugs.
Skyrim with official and unofficial patches works as close to perfect as can be reasonably expected from software. Well, entertainment software. If it watched nuclear power plants, we'd all be dead

I think it comes down to basic economics. Any game in its current state either is or is not worth to you the price charged. When you buy a game, you are giving positive reinforcement for any and all practices involved in that game's development.


If you don't think a company isn't going to release a game that's polished to your satisfaction then it is your choice whether or not to buy the game - either at all, or to wait until a later date when issues have been ironed out. Or to buy at release and accept the product sight-unseen.


Again with the high school-level economics, that's called opportunity cost.


If enough people felt burnt by a company that they decided to stop pre-ordering and such, then that would have a significant impact.


I've been gaming since the early 80s (my first console was an Intellivision and our first computer I think was like a 286 or something.) Personally, I think overall quality is much better than it was in the 90s at least.


And games are much more complicated now. There's going to be Quest bugs in these large RPGs. There always were. I've got old DOS games I'll never beat. At least now we can get patches.

Don't you know that's how the great war started in .

He he. I told you guys so. Was laughed at the community when I told them that this would happen "buy now, patch later" but I was told I was a fool and to shut up. Look what has happened now. By the way, I was laughed at by the Bethesda community. Funny to see this now.

Wait.


Are you implying the "Bethesda Community" has ever unanimously agreed on anything or could be characterized as doing anything communally? Because in my time here I've only ever seen a bunch of individuals that probably couldn't write a lunch order without a couple bans and someone bringing Hitler into it.


If what you meant was you posted an opinion and some individuals laughed at you and others agreed and it probably ended in a thread lock then yes - that sounds more like the forum I know. (And if someone was rude to you hopefully you reported it.)

Yes this is what was ment.

Sorry didn't mean it was the Bethesda Community that did it, but it was on here with a few forum members.

Sorry, I was just having a go. I couldn't resist. :b

lol.