“Oops, this game has stopped working and now must close” is a frequent message for some of the games being released today. What we see now is companies in a rush to push out games that don’t work. Case 1: Fallout 3. Case 2: Dawn of War 2, there are many games that have been released with fatal game flaws at are later patched, my query to those companies releasing such games is: why? Why do you like to shit on your customers for getting one of your games? Why do you like to release games before they’re fucking finished? Why do release patches that don’t do shit? Let’s go into this topic for a bit.

When I first got Fallout 3, I was impressed with the graphics and in some ways the gameplay, but I wasn’t impressed with the staggering amount of crashes, glitches, and overall graphical tomfoolery in the game. The worst part is, that this problem still exists. I can understand you want to keep a schedule for the game being released, but you’re only going to hurt your future prospects by releasing an unfinished game.

What I want to bring up now is Too Human. That game that was in development for something close to 10 years. With development time like how, how could the game be released with so much shit in it? It seems like Silicon Knights only advertised the game for 9 and a half years, and spent the last 6 months actually making the game. Too Human was suppose to be one of the best games ever, or you would expect so with a 10 year development time. Instead we get a severely bugged and horrible experience, as if no one had tested the game. This was even during successful economic times, so there’s no excuse.

The main point is patches and fixes are suppose to fix small things in games, things like balancing online, fixing small graphical glitches, not fucking releasing 200 megabytes of patches because you couldn’t finish the fucking game in the first place. Why release a game when it’s not done? Sure you may make some money off it but customers now will look at you and think to themselves “Didn’t those guys make <X>, uhm.. I don’t think I want it now”. This is certainly the case between myself and Silicon Knights. Too Human was an awesome idea completely ruined by the half-assed job they pulled off for the gameplay and the performance.

I know nothing when it comes to how companies work and how they release products, but speaking from a consumer point of view: people don’t like having to buy a game then having to download extra content just to play said game.