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Originally Posted by gmohr
All of that is great. And yes this game is now amazing despite its flaws, and will be even more fantastic over time.
But.
The software game industry puts out the lowest quality products imaginable. Consider that if you purchased *anything* else in your life... a car.. a TV.. a shirt whatever and it had just a fraction of the flaws we shrug off in computer games. You'd freak, and you'd be quite correct to do so.
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Well, I have heard of "product recalls" from Ford Pintos to wet cat food- so it happens in all industries. With the gamer crowd there is a distinct focus on what games don't do to the almost total exclusion of what they do do correctly. Plus gamers gripe with more vigor and energy- they are the definition of a very "squeaky wheel".
Software development isn't the same as making a shirt or a TV- it is much more complicated with a high level of consumer expectations and demands. Anyone in the industry who cares to stay in business and make a living works thier tail off to create the best product they can in some very difficult situations (like a retailer pressing for the product 2-3 weeks early or else they drop thier order- if the retailer is Joe's Game Hut, then you keep working. If it is Wal-Mart, then the dev schedule gets revised and the product goes out the door 3-4 weeks early because Wal-Mart has a 70,000 unit pre-order).
So it's not a question of low quality at all- just a really horrible way the whole "developer-publisher-retailer-sonsumer relatiionship" fails to work. It's a whole lot of hard working, dedicated people working through a very disfunctional business model.