Comment: Banana software for players? Overloaded servers? Stop it! – Heise News Ticker

players have become accustomed to that game studios sell unfinished beta versions at full price. This is thight calculated and shows that game studios do not care about their customers, says Martin Fischer.

debacle over the error-prone Assassin’s Creed Unity [1] shows Once again: Many games manufacturers sell unfinished beta versions at full price. They do not care about their players who place between 50 and 70 euros for a new PC or console game on the table – even often for special editions over 100 euros. Games that come unfinished, is calculated tough.

Especially gamers are accustomed to error-prone Full Games. Many titles now receive the same day of publication a day one patch that makes it even playable and quite blunder ausbügelt. Thus, a patch can sometimes be a few gigabytes – bad, if you do not thick DSL line at the residence or the update server is snoring slowly. This PC phenomenon has long since overtaken and console players who could put even on reasonably error-free games in the past. But in the age of PC-like hardware console with 500 GB hard drives and wireless game studios are now more “flexible”.

Well, you could argue that the development of games has become much more complex. A blockbuster costs all in all fast tens of millions of dollars and employs hundreds of specialists. But this should not be a reason to release unfinished games! The studios have to spend more for quality assurance and – most importantly – provide enough servers to start the game. For that, you have paid for it!

Many players have no desire to Early Access versions, unfinished full price title, overloaded DRM nerve clients like uPlay and non-functioning game server. But game studios come through it. You prefer to churn a lot of money into marketing to generate before the release of the game a huge hype that makes enough players to thoughtless First-Day-buyers. If enough money is taken, then you are probably sometimes reduced to an apology as the Ubisoft boss has done less than three weeks after the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity. This excuse is as much value as a Ubisoft game on its release day. ( mfi [2] )