Games are a broken mess right up until launch - when the rollercoaster finally comes to a halt and the clay stops flopping around like one of those car dealership balloons - and developers are usually aware of the major issues they launch with.
It’s like moulding a jar from clay on a rollercoaster. That’s not a dig at the gaming audience, it’s just that video games are a complex chimera of publisher goals, developer goals, and the realities of working with an ever-shifting vision. If there’s a lack of features, it isn’t down to development constraints and deadlines - it’s “lazy developers”. If a game doesn’t run well, it’s “bad optimisation”. Like it or not, the vast majority of video game players just do not understand game development. Elsewhere, people have petitioned to have the last season of Game of Thrones remade, but HBO would never do that. This rarely happens in any other medium - sure, you could point at the Sonic movie changing his appearance over criticism, but it’s the video game crowd once again. I’m sure the developer was just trying to do the right thing, but it changed the ending of its game due to negative feedback, bending its creative vision to pander to the baying masses. Mass Effect 3 feels like ground zero for toxic fan entitlement. It’s just that the shit floats to the top until it’s all you can see.īioWare has a lot to answer for, basically. Don’t get mad, there’s a bit of hyperbole in that headline - among all the detritus of the internet, the occasional bit of usable feedback exists.
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