Because lootboxes isn't gambling enough, companies like to add buying games and gambling your money to see whether an updated shell six months to a year down the line was worth it.

Honestly, the publications giving this more than a 5 for lack of effort and future worth that may or may not happen should be ashamed for coercing people to buy this at full price.

If you launch a game and have to remind people content will be added later(right away).. .. It should be considered "early access" and be $30 dollars at most.

I feel bad wasting my two weeks of free game pass(which means I played the game for nothing and felt ripped off) to try SoT because it was so dull and lacking content.

ps games are the same, when you all write this stuff why leave the other consoles out of it? this is so funny, darts are always thrown at xbox and by the way I have a ps too

Anymore? You mean, it was once before?

The game’s lack of depth was a conscious decision according to phil Spencer

One fan responded to his tweets stating that the game lacks mechanical depth, to which Spencer responded, saying that the lack of depth was done to make the game accessible to a larger audience

phil and rare delivered the game they wanted

Games that launched with little content was never acceptable, its only magnified when the console in question has a reputation of not having games or worthehile experiences.

It was never accaptable. But publishers and develipers tested the waters and gamers let them go way too far.

Are you suggesting that Sea of Thieves has barely any content?

Just a quick check (at the time of this post) it's at #11 on Twitch. Even after all this time, after all the negative trolling articles.

At some point you are just going to have to admit that it is a good game with plenty of content to see.

What I think it all comes down to is the studios name... If rockstar released Sot, people would've crapped on it and wonder what the heck happened to rockstar... If naughty dog would've released sot, people would've crapped on it and wondered what the heck happened. If Bethesda would've released sot, people would've crapped on it etc, etc etc.... A bunch of xbox enthusiasts gave it a pass because their nothing more than homers and making sure the Xbox looks good is more important than playing great games.

At least Far cry 5 on the X looks a little better than the Pro version... We've got that going for us! Am I right Xbox enthusiasts? Now who wants to help me give Phil Spencer a hand job?

It’s acceptable to me if it’s at the right price. I welcome smaller games with smaller price tags. If no mans sky was 20 dollars I probably would have bought it just to try it and ignored the reviews. Same with sea of thieves, I like the concepts enough to chance it. I wasn’t going to pay 60 for either and my curiosity wore off by the time it went on sale.

I guess what I’m saying is that you can’t boil this stuff down into generalizations. How do you justify the content of witcher 3 for 60 dollars and overwatch for 60 dollars? Is overwatch not worth 60 dollars? I still haven’t paid for it but numerous awards, reviews and the player base say otherwise. It’s just that witcher 3 is worth so much more than 60 dollars. It’s called value and yes we all love that. Edit: maybe not all of us.

And yet their continued release suggest the opposite. Regardless of complaints.

Agree with the author of this article.

So you should be upset with Gran turismo right?

Wait, "Isn't Acceptable Anymore"? When was it ever acceptable?

Nope sure isn't. And Sea of Thieves is a prime example. The fact that ANYONE would defend that empty game is a very sad sight to see.

With the increasing popularity of games as a service, i fear we have to see more and more devs throwing out barebone games on the market and deliver content later may it be for free or paid.

https://twitter.com/fobwash...

I wonder if Phil has forgotten this conversation it’s disturbingly relevant now

Sea of Thieves is obviously a pad for Gamepass and that games as a service bullshit.

Come on, if you've played it you KNOW how polished SOT is. It's AAA polish, yet it magically has no meat and potato content??? DayZ Epoch has more content than SOT and that's just a mod. No, that's NOT a joke.

...I call bullshit. I bet they tore it out so they could justify micro-dlc-updates for the next 10 years.

Who actually paid full price for this? I played it using the free Gamepass 2 week trail or if for some reason you didn't get that it is still only $10 on Gamepass. People are making out that it was full price and that was it, people need to do some research. I thought it was a great deal as it cost me no money and $10 would have been a great deal as well but $60 yeah not so much..

I think we should address this issue, which applies to all publishers and consoles alike. How would it helps by using the most hated companies as a scapegoat, while neglecting everyone else (yes and i do mean Sony as well) that are doing the same thing?

"Anymore"? When the hell has it been acceptable to release games with no content???

I dont think this is going to change though.. The internet opened many doors and some of those doors include patches & microtransactions.. I know one thing, if i subscribed to game pass because of all those sea of thieves promos, i wouldve called and bitched out customer service to get my money back.. This was one of the biggest scams ive ever seen a gaming company pull on their own fans..

The article title makes it seem like it was acceptable in the past. However it was never acceptable.

I totally agree and agree and agree!! This is what is problem nowdays, empty promises and games that are 40% done at launch is completely unfair and it needs to stop at once!! One thing to show our opinion is STOP PRE-ORDERING and buy game after reviews (not the ones that developers have bought) and buy the game then. Only thing they care about in the end is the money so lets use it wisely.

The west has too much focus on all the hollywood parts of a video game like characters, story, world etc. When they pitch a game they talk about who you play as, the world your in, the conflict, and push the actual game part to the end. They don't make a game then build the story and everything around that, its reversed. In the east, its game first, then everything else. This is one of the critiques publishers have pointed out between the differences in culture.

Sea of thieves clearly had all its work done on the look and presentation of the game over making a competent video game. Video games have the the unique ability to express themselves through interaction, yet most of these big AAA titles would rather sell you a service with no game or a movie. The majority of the industry is being squandered by incompetent suits who don't even interact with the product they sell.

Unfortunately this was always going to happen as some people seem to think that "early access" is great thing thats giving you a full game. What the community gets is nothing more than a tech piece show casing what could be, not what is. A glorified demo if you will. Until people wake up to this and stop accepting early access games, this trend will only get worse.

damn right

yet another example to add to my EXPONENTIALLY large list of games im beyond glad i didnt purchase at launch and also further cements my strategy of NEVER buying a game until its been out for at least 2 months ... i got nothing but time and bills to pay, i have patience to get a worthwhile purchase of quality content in a game

I expect better from Microsoft, they've lost there hunger by the looks of it. So much potential and not much to show.

TBH I am not surprised about SOT that too online focus. I prefer SP game, sandbox or open world game does not necessarily mean good.. It depends on the developer. Uncharted1 is a great example. People say it is too short but I love that game. Asscreed vs POP. Asscreed is not bad but I prefer POP. Hopefully Ubisoft make classic POP again. I am sure there are lot of guys like me who would buy it.

"anymore"? it was never acceptable, it's always had lots of backlash when done.

"Games Launching With Barely Any Content Isn't Acceptable Anymore"

Then why the hell do you idiots keep buying them? These companies know people are stupid enough to buy something incomplete, so why wouldn't they keep doing this?

It was never acceptable, but for some reason gamers have been ok with paying full price for skeletons of games, judging by sales figures. It seems like people are finally starting to wise up and see that business practice for what it is though, and I think that's a positive change.

I think why many of the Xbox exclusives isnt holding up is because MS is dictating how the games should be. If the studios were given more free hands and wasnt forced to make every game GAAS they would do alot better.
I do have some feares now with their game subscription, that many games will be short of content so that they can sell the content above the subscription. But i dont know, maybe im just paranoid.

No. It's hold never happen.

Just dont understand how this was 4years in development. Unless they deliberately held back content.

Honestly never thought I'd say this but...

It's got to a point where mobile gaming is on its way to getting better than console or PC gaming.

4 years development
+
200 programers

=
2 boat types
1 main enemy type
3 quest variables

What happened? 😥😴😤