Day 1 Patches and Loot Boxes are RUINING Gaming - RANT | RGT 85

rgt-85 (57) in gaming • 7 years ago

Star Wars Battlefront 2's loot box fiasco, along with the increase in Day 1 Patches in gaming that are critical to the game have started to RUIN gaming. As consumers, we need to stand up and speak out against these issues and vote with our WALLET.

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7 years ago by rgt-85 (57)

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retro-room (63) · 7 years ago

A very good and much needed rant. You raise a good issue with day 1 patches and the number of homes that don't have broadband in their home.

As a collector, another problem with this 'patch it day 1' garbage is that 10+ years from now, when the servers these patches come from are down or no longer host the patches, these games will revert to being the incomplete, buggy, broken games they originally shipped as. Someone who buys Rime on the Switch in 2030 probably won't be able to get this patch, and the game will forever be broken. This is a big issue for those of us who are collectors and game preservationists.

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classicoyat (41) · 7 years ago

I support your opinion....damn right...please follow back @rgt-85 i'm new here

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rgt-85 (57) · 7 years ago

Thank you friend!

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raghu7 (33) · 7 years ago

Oh man you are damn right and I liked the way you express ... Angry Young Man !!!!!

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winstonalden (64) · 7 years ago

I don't game as much as I used to, but the Wife is a big fan of The Sims. And I have to say, trying to get anything from EA to work on the PC is a nightmare. That damned Origin portal (why can't we use Steam, again?) keeps locking up her computer with updates and shenanigans, and it takes 10-15 minutes from launch to begin playing a game! I even spent $150 on an SSD, which has sped up her computer immensely, and it doesn't make any difference with EA. The only thing that made me feel a little better was reading that other players were waiting 30 minutes to an hour for their games to load!

So I can't imagine trying to deal with any other products from this company.

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rgt-85 (57) · 7 years ago

It's bad dude. Real bad.

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zyalock (34) · 7 years ago

In my country "the Netherlands" they are now putting games containing loot boxes under the loop as it surely is gambling and bad for the younger generation. I can also see this being a good thing, maybe they wil stop this crap.

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hashrushgame (57) · 7 years ago

And they do deserve to be there. Lootboxes are gambling, you pay a bit of money and you may or may not get something (I count getting the filler material in lootboxes as 'nothing).

Whilst I doubt it, I do hope that EA and other publishers that are considering such a feature (in games that do not need them) seriously reconsider it.

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hashrushgame (57) · 7 years ago

Bang on, totally on point.

As a whole, gamers have been far too patient and (as surprising as it may sound) forgiving with dodgy tactics by some of the major publishers. Each time there is a major release the line gets pushed back little by little and the major publishers notice that they can get away with more and more, be it abusive content (lootboxes...) or rushed released with major bugs.

I feel that certain publishers have got the wrong impression that they can do anything they want, and perhaps it's slowly time that they were reminded that without customers who buy their products they wouldn't be able to function.

There is also the problem of one company being given exclusive rights to a certain product, for example EA and Star Wars. If there was any competition to a new Star Wars game, I doubt Battlefront II would have been the same mess as it is now. Exclusivity, as with monopolies ultimately only hurt the end user.

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