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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45802

An editorial by GameDaily's Greg Atkinson on how developers are using the ability to patch games as a crutch for launching games ahead of schedule, using a "we'll patch it later" mentality, and how gamers are basically unpaid beta testers. Here's an excerpt:

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yhancik · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:02 am Post subject:

back then, before internet, making a patch would have costed more than polishing the game (because there wasn't really any cheap mean of distribution)
now i guess it's cheaper to release the game on date, and put a patch on the internet a few weeks/months later

it's also partly because of the videogames market today, and its customers...

- there's a large bunch of stupid consummers who'll buy any games because of good "marketing" (think of games based on movie licence, etc)

- and the players complaining about "delayed games" and "outdated engines" urge the dev/publ to release the game "in the state it is"