I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect, sure*. But headlines like this do not help inspire confidence in new games: Early Star Wars Outlaws PS5 players paid $110 only to have Ubisoft issue a new patch and tell them to start a new save file or face game-breaking bugs. The company has since tried damage control, but only because of all of the screaming.
The company will also discover that not as many people will buy early access to their next game; whether or not Ubisoft will amend their behavior in response to market response is still up in the air. Very possibly they will not.
In which case? Oh, well. Market forces have ways to deal with that kind of suboptimal response, too.
Via @TychoBrahe.
Moe Lane
*But not entirely. For all their wheezes and stutters, older games with good modding communities is simply the cheaper option.
I’ve just read that there is a Wordle-like minigame in this… thing and it makes my negative interest in the game even lower. (Wordle makes me itch and the pretentious “I got a great score” posts make me angry, except for one contrarian who rubs my face in it, but in a funny way.)
Imagine what a game it could have been, playing actual Han Solo? I know, impossible in modern gaming.