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Has the Internet Ruined Gaming?

Kyle of Vivid Gamer writes:

Allow me to pose this question: if the very first boss of Shadow of the Colossus had sank into the ground and disappeared for 70% of players, would the game not have been crucified? Imagine that the moment of Aerith’s death – an emotional milestone for many gamers – had been ruined when a placeholder cutscene with stick figures was loaded instead. Solid Snake never saves Meryl; the torture scene glitches and sends the player directly to their cell. In the eighth castle, Princess Peach is nowhere to be found.

It’s now customary practice among gamers to advise each other against purchasing a game on release day because a fair number of bugs and problems are expected. When did this become OK? As gamers, are we really OK with buying a game and knowing that it’s not going to work?

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ncstatefan9535260d ago

The internet has ruined so many things. Just add gaming to the list.

DaReapa5260d ago

- the rise of DLC
- incentive for devs to rush an unfinished product out the door (via patches).
- rise of fanboy senselessness on the net
- obscenities and cheating in MP gaming

Yep, I would agree.

zeal0us5260d ago

List of things that ruin gaming
-DRMs
-On Disk DLC
-Game Hackers
-Online Passes

I guess looking all those the internet would be partly to blame.

jacksonmichael5260d ago

I can forgive it, as long as Operation Rainfall succeeds.

nik666uk5260d ago

Shorter games, parts of games being left out and sold to u later, unfinished games being released as devs know they will just patch it somewhere down the line, less effort made
on single player modes, i could go on!! MY HOBBY HAS BEEN RUINED!!!!! IT'S NOT GOOD!!!!!

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Firezide Chat with Pete Hines

Pete Hines: “Truthfully, I still think Bethesda is just part of something that is not authentic and is not genuine. And that shouldn't be a surprise to you.”

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo77d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14977d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused77d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos89d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee89d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0989d ago (Edited 89d ago )

🤣🤣🤣