Suggesting that they wait 48 hours to confirm that a game is actually similar to what was advertised is literally inconceivable to them.
They keep giving game companies tens of millions of dollars to release an unfinished product. And then they do it again. And then they do it 5 more times. And then they genuinely wonder why video game companies release unfinished games.
Also true, gamers are hogs for that slop. Pre orders should have died the second digital distribution became a thing, but gamerhogs need their slop and they need it now
I agree, but you'd think that would make them want good games ffs. Gamers are just so incredibly brain broken, I really have a hard time wrapping my head around that mindset. The video game industry is just such a clear example of how the quest to squeeze every cent of profit out of a product inevitably makes it shittier for (almost) everyone involved. From the consoomer side of things (micro transactions, buggy games shoved out the door, games getting more expensive when distribution has only gotten cheaper) to the actual workers producing the damn things (crunch time, low pay, being forced to meet impossible deadlines) it only has gotten worse, with the profits going to a handful of fat cats. And these dumbass fucking moronic gamers clap like seals for CoD 2K23 and blame "the woke left" for making games worse by gasp including characters that aren't a white guy!?
Sorry about the rant but goddamn how can those people be so fucking dense!?
They’re designed for the bottom of the barrel. It’s why shit like FIFA and 2K and CoD and iPhones can be released every year and make billions. They don’t care because they have money, and they want the new shiny, and they don’t want to be ostracized for not having the shiny.
A game that exists to provide escapism to people and give them a chance to pretend they're driving their dream car that reality could never provide, locks out said dream cars. neat.
I do want to get back into track racing games but the options are either full sim or full arcade. Idk when the last real forza came out and I rather play on PC. I love letting my eyes lose focus and follow the track.
I bought BeamNG almost a decade ago I think. Its a lot of fun but i find it a bit aimless. I more or less want to learn a course and car and fine tune my reaction and anticipation of the course.
I should give it another try, i'm sure there's been a lot of updates.
This has been going on forever in the GT series. Like the limited time cars in GT5.
That said a lot of these mechanics were designed for a time when other game modes existed that could compensate for them. Like in GT5 where you can “train” an AI to race as their race chief.
I named mine The Stig. And just let him race until it was so good that I could leave it alone at a 12 hour race event and went to sleep. When I woke up I had enough cash and bought a Lamborghini and a Ferrari.
Sony's thought for a while their winning Gran Turismo formula was to introduce worse versions of iRacing mechanics, and somehow they managed to do that with the monetization as well.