I do not know what to make of his article. I am a grown adult with a very good job and I refuse to purchase a game early or at full price it just does not make sense to me. Today you are almost guaranteed to purchase a game that is super buggy and damn near unplayable. This is a known problem and yet it is sold to the consumer at full price, that to me is unacceptable. I purchased Fallout New Vegas at full price day one for my PS3, the damn thing crashed constantly on me, I repurchased the game on steam at half the price and played on my laptop and had a great time with it. I should not have had to purchase that game twice, and if the PC was the definitive version of the game they should have said so in some sort of disclaimer. I am not asking for my money back all I want is something that says hey this 60 dollar game is unplayable on this platform go play it on the PC. And yet that is never done the game is sold broken at full price and we wait an unspecified time for a patch that may or may not fix it.
I am an adult with a family, job, and in school at night full time, there is no way I can ever finish massive games like Fallout, GTA, or Skyrim in any comparable time to a dude with no kids, job, or responsibilities. So when I finally do get around to the next huge game that I tend to gravitate towards, they have depreciated in value and I purchase them, that does not make me any less dedicated to the hobby than an early adopter who gets it day one.
I do not know if my rant has anything to do with this gentleman's feelings, or the point he was trying to get across, but man it felt good getting this off my chest LOL.
Thanks Patrick, great article as always, and thank you Giantbomb for Existing LOL.
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