Are you going to wait or buy it on day 1?

[ZiggyMon]

I'll definitly buy it on day 1. I might cry my eyes out because my computer can't properly display the über graphics and because the game has way too many bugs... But I'll buy it.

[Thomen]

Not sure if I am going to buy it on day 1. Largely depends on availability here in the area and on previews.

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by ZiggyMon

I'll definitly buy it on day 1. I might cry my eyes out because my computer can't properly display the über graphics and because the game has way too many bugs... But I'll buy it.

well lets hope it dosent have too many bugs lol...

Ps welcome to the forums...

PPs like your sig.:rotfl:

[onelifecrisis]

I'm shocked at the results of the poll so far. I voted "wait" and fully expected to see 90% of people voting the same way, but it seems that most people here are very optimistic (or just easily pleased ).

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I'm shocked at the results of the poll so far. I voted "wait" and fully expected to see 90% of people voting the same way, but it seems that most people here are very optimistic (or just easily pleased ).

Well... I myself am just eager to see what sh5 will be like, its been awhile since the last uboat sim. I can just install patches anyway if it is a buggy mess...and have fun along the patch latter...

[Highbury]

I will buy it the first day it is available in the Subsim store.

[Kongo Otto]

I will buy it the first Day, then put it on my Harddrive, will take a look at it and then maybe wait for the Proper Bugfix called maybe GWX5.0.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I'm shocked at the results of the poll so far. I voted "wait" and fully expected to see 90% of people voting the same way, but it seems that most people here are very optimistic (or just easily pleased ).

Why wait? The previous games had their bugs. Some more than others but these bugs get fixed with a patch or two. Modding begins. Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. Buy it first day

well i think while most will admit they werent thrilled that it took so long to bring each game up to speed with the needed patches, i think we are all looking at the fact that they did take care of most of the issues and we ended up with very good games in the end.

what would be the point in waiting except to try to catch it on sale or maybe be lucky enough to find someone who doesnt understand how to play the game and garage sales it for next to nothing. (there is always a few of these people lol)

the only possible impact that waiting could have would be to make ubi think interest in subsims is fading and they shouldnt support the genre anymore.

companies use the revenue from sales of the game help pay for the expense of doing patches and research to fix issues with the game and limited sales can only mean limited support for the game.

we all wish games werent released untill they were fully tested and fixed but thats not a reality in this world because any company trying to do this would see a competitor release a cloned version of the same game and steal the market share for it.

its just bad buisness for any company to wait to fix working games so all games are and will always be out the door in a barely finished state as long as its playable because they cant afford the risk of the game being stolen or cloned.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Why wait? The previous games had their bugs. Some more than others but these bugs get fixed with a patch or two. Modding begins. Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. Buy it first day

After release they have no obligation to fix bugs, and I have no tolerance for buggy software. I'm not saying they won't fix them, I'm just saying there's no guarantees.

SH3 is still, even now, a very buggy game - even with all the patches and mods! My Environment mod started out as an attempt to fix a graphical bug in the night sky; my GUI mod was borne out of sheer frustration with the design of the stock interface; and I still have to contend with buggy saved games, buggy weather, a buggy watch officer, occasional random CTDs... need I go on? Sure there are workarounds for most of the problems, but I don't want to go through the pain and hassle of learning a whole new set of workarounds for a whole new set of bugs, and I'll be damned if I'm going to fork out cash for a piece of software that I will do not consider "usable" and for which I have no guarantee that it will become "usable" in the future. I will fork out the cash if and when the game becomes usable, not before (and by "usable" I mean a lot less buggy than SH3 is now). To me that's just plain good sense. Buying the software "blindly" doesn't make sense to me.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

After release they have no obligation to fix bugs, and I have no tolerance for buggy software. I'm not saying they won't fix them, I'm just saying there's no guarantees.

SH3 is still, even now, a very buggy game - even with all the patches and mods!

I've had so much more than $50 worth of fun with SH3 in spite of all that. I'll be there on day one.

[Highbury]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Buying the software "blindly" doesn't make sense to me.

I wouldn't consider it blind actually, I have 4 predecessors to base my decision off of. Sure SHIII and SH4 are still buggy, even after patching, but by the time each version of SH has left my hard drive I have received MUCH more gaming value then the purchase price. I have no reason to believe I won't from SH5.

If, by the time SH5 has had it's day, I don't feel I got my $50 worth then I will step back on a "next one" if there is such a thing. So far I have not felt ripped off with a SH game.

[skwasjer]

Buggy software eh??? Yet S3D's alpha and beta releases (some 20 different releases) were downloaded about 20000 times in just over one year, and has been very popular around here. But it's by no means bug free... So surely, this can't be an argument?

And what about all the mods you download... Bug free??? You think?

Not to mention the dozens of other 'half baked' tools everybody downloads and uses, but then it crashes, you uninstall, doesn't uninstall completely, slows down your computer, oh well, next tool, rinse... repeat...

I agree that software companies should not release buggy software on purpose, and that they should have a good QA system in place, yet you can't just keep on developing to find every single god damn bug, because you won't find them. As soon as you release it, people will still find critical bugs...

I find it poor argument to just wait for patches and a bargain sale of 10$ when this is a game you play for hundreds of hours in the long run. You're just being cheap then...

PS: look at me, I bought SH4 on day one (pre-order actually), spent over 1000 hours working on a free program, and only played the game for about 4 weeks total, yet I still bought the collectors ed. and it was worth every penny...