Gaming

You've just added another month to the release date.

Half Life Alyx was sick and demonstrated everything VR could be. I will standby that statement and tolerate the flamers.

Gabe has remained a wizard through all of time

I'm pretty sure he is Santa

I hope so.

But he's also president of one of the richest companies in the industry because he always said this.

And while your point is valid for smaller studios, it feels like it's usually used by the big ones that do have the resources, but would rather give more money to investors.

It's often enough AAA with tons of money that force insane crunch to hit a release date and still have buggy, uncompleted games.

In the documentary this quote is from he said that about thr development of HL1. To be fair the devs themselves said they voluntairily crunched quite a bit and had some time constraints at the end of the game.

Fun Pimps were a smaller company and they have been developing 7 Days since my gramps was in nappies!

No Man's Sky is a great redemption arc, but it would have been better if the game hadn't sucked at launch

Why is the consumer just expected to roll over and take it

They're expected to do it because that's exactly what they do, every time.

Gabe was talking about the making of Half Life, back when you shipped your disc and that was that. And the game was, apparently, crapola.

Same kind of deal with the original Deus Ex. It was a spaghetti of poorly interacting systems until the devs were able to make it all click together.

CP2077 had a bunch of issues on release as well. Much better now. I feel like they(developers) need to bring in different testers near release. If you have the same testers whom have been testing builds for years it can probably be hard to see the issues with the same clarity.

Also stop having release dates. Just use vague terms like 2nd half 2024. When you get the release build, anounce a date, like a month later, give your devs a couple weeks off as there will be missed bugs after release. Hard release dates aren’t helping these situations.

Because people will pre-order games to the point that it's made a healthy profit even before it's even released. Consumers vote with their wallet and for some reason gamers just constantly choose to show publishers that shoddy, half-assed products are good enough for them.

Didn't colonial marine turn out to actually have really good AI that totally changed the game feel that had been broken by a single misplaced semi-colon or something?

Valve was a completely new company then. They weren't going indie, but Sierra didn't pay them for the remake of Half-Life. In the documentary they talk about financing it by creating Half-Life: Day One.

Yes, landing is difficult.

There is delaying to release a higher quality product and delaying while having features creep... Not the same thing.

There's no way he didn't know. You don't exist in that industry and not know.

not really

And most of the audience is either autistic or neurodivergent with impulsive and/or compulsive disorders, and have unstable hyperfocus and obsession issues.

Really? Most of the audience?

• The alternative to current model of game launch + DLCs/features added over the year is that the game is not launched at all until ready and full featured.

I haven't seen significant numbers of people complaining that their drip feed of content isn't coming fast enough. I've seen people complaining about spending a non-trivial amount of money on a visibly broken game that clearly had plenty of developer resources for microtransactions and loot boxes.

Gamer audience is privileged, consumerist and impatient. And most of the audience is either autistic or neurodivergent with impulsive and/or compulsive disorders, and have unstable hyperfocus and obsession issues.

Being a game developer had its moments but was still easily the worst job I've ever had, predominantly due to the community.

That said, I still wouldn't go diagnosing millions of people with some bullshit I just made up.