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The Problems With Game Room

Maybe I'm a crazy person, but I seem to be one of the few who like Game Room...for the most part. There is something fun about playing short, simple games and competing with friends to get high scores and trying to attain medals. But...I can't ignore the problems Game Room has had ever since it's initial launch. There have been technical issues, broken promises, release delays, etc. This makes me question whether or not Microsoft picked the right company to handle this project when they chose Krome.
 
One of the first problems that occurred was during when it was released. Many people couldn't even get the game to load past it's loading screen. It would get stuck and never take you to the actual game room itself. When the problem was fixed then they had online issues. Leaderboards wouldn't load half of the time and creating challenges sometimes took multiple attempts. This was then followed up by the news that any new games would be coming out until a month later, but this was after everyone was told there would be games coming out every week right after launch. 
 
So then a month passes and those who cared about Game Room were excited to finally have some new cabinets to put in their virtual arcades. But this excitement would change to disappointment when we were then told by Krome that the games would be delayed by a week. No explanation...no reason given. Amazingly, they did deliver that following week and we've been getting games ever since.
 
But...then Game Pack 005 came out (after an almost day long delay)...and another promise was yet again broken. We were told we'd be getting 7 games a week...this all of the sudden changed to 5. Again...there was no explanation as to why.
 
Then this past week, Krome made yet again another mistake. Somehow on the Games for Windows version of Game Room...game pack 006 was released early. And not only was it released early, all of the games in it were available to buy right away. And just in case any of you who might be reading this are wondering...this is what is in game pack 006: 
 
 Arcade games:


Atari 2600/Activision games:


Intellivision:

 
 As of now...these games are now locked and can't be accessed in the PC version of Game Room, which means it was yet again...another screw up.
 
And finally we have control issues and bad emulation of some games. Jeff Gerstmann himself has already pointed out that sound effects in games such as Asteroids and Missile Command are off. Then you have the horrendous controls of Circus Atari. And then the overall strange temporary stalling all of the games have when you play them. And in some games those temporary freezes can make you lose a game.
 
I'm still going to stick it out with Game Room, but I am starting to question it's future and whether or not it will ever hit the promised 1000 games mark. Because so far, promises don't seem to mean much with Krome. Perhaps Microsoft should find another company to take over the project.
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