Agreed. It's getting worse, too: DLC encourages publishers to release products that are "incomplete by design", so they can ask for more $$$ at a later date for features that were designed for the game but intentionally omitted.

Between this DLC trend and the oblivious attitude toward bugs as called out in the original article, it's no wonder a lot of intelligent customers are turning to used games or GotY/collected editions and holding off on day one purchases.

Oblivion GOTY and Fallout 3 GOTY still have plenty of bugs/glitches that weren't fixed.. So, in all honesty I wouldn't hold my breath on Fallout New Vegas GOTY (when released) will have it's bugs/glitches totally removed too.

Good point...but it'll be better than it is now. Fallout 3 still has bugs galore. Last game I played had cars falling out the sky.

Reviewers are a joke this generation. They should clamp down on bug riddled games. Take away at least 1-2 points from the total score, yet some games get clamped down for simple screen tearing (IGN).

right... but if the great majority of gamers held off buying the games day one and bought the games months later when they were patched and cheaper as Divideby0 sugested... it would not be long before the publishers ( the ones who care about making money and nothing else ) start to sit up and ask why this trend is happening.

Once they did that and realised it's because of the attitude that they can release a pile of trash and and patch it later, maybe they will actual change their ways.

the one thing to understand is that no amount of complaining/ moaning/ articles on the issue will ever make them change their ways, only when the practice affects their sales and profit will it then become an issue they have to address.

if they know people are holding out, they may realise it's more in their interest to delay release, give the dev's time to workout all the bugs and issues, pack as much content as possible into it and then when it is released we will feel we are getting better value for money and hence be more inclined to pick it up on the day of release meaning they will get more money in their pockets for it.

I vote with my wallet nothing else. I liked Fallout 3, but will leave Vagas for game of the year. Many other games I was interested in I have completely lost interest in. If I am going to spend my hard earned money on something that is only going to go down in value ( $$$ i am talking about ) then it better be giving me the value back in some other way.