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Originally Posted by Daniel Prates
On this subject, many opinions (not coincidentaly, coming from people who got the game to work) fall into a generic cathegory: its a cheap game, chill out, its being worked out etc.
I would like again to stress out that the whole reason I am taking this matter so seriously is not the bug itself. Its a matter of PRICIPLE. It is the problem that this kind of rushed-out, flawed games are becoming increasingly common. It is the posture that the comunity is taking, in increasingly larger numbers, to silence complaints and treat the developers and distributors as people doing us favours.
Where this road is going to lead us? It has become so impopular do cricticize the devs, that many people has sent me private messages to agree with me. Why private? Are we afraid to say what we think, now?
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While this is in some respects true, in that release of 'rushed' or incomplete games is becoming the norm in some cases - it has more to do with the relative ease of modern communications mediums (the patching process, especially when 'delivered' by a third party interface like Steam) and cash-strapped Publishers pushing devs to finish working on a game before its ready in order to recoup investments or running costs from the release. It has very little to do with the actual developers, in the great majority of cases.
While your 'take a stand' notion is a noble one, unless you can simultaneously convince a good 80% of the current gaming demographic to join in your protest, it will achieve nothing. Beyond that, it would do you credit to consider the circumstances of each game/dev/publisher independently - consider NWAC, with its team of six or so relatively independent devs under a small publisher, and corporations like Ubi, like EA and so on - the larger, 'peer' companies that actively enforce this business model.
Target your ire if you wish it to be effective, and remember that polite ire is harder to ignore than impolite.
