VanceIX said:
That's why you NEVER trust reviews for the first week. Most reviewers get their copy before the game even launches, and play on emptyish servers, or in private lobbies. Some issues may not even show up until a day or two in. It's your responsibility to wait and see user opinions. Plenty of people were complaining about the game soon after it launched, if someone did even a speck of research they would know this. Consumers can't just lay on the ground and hope that companies will quality test everything, cause they won't. We have to watch out for ourselves. Literally 5 minutes of internet searching could save you $60 from buying a broken game. As long as you never pre-order and read user reviews, you will be fine. It takes maybe five minutes to do a quick Google search to find out if a game is broken. That's how it has been since video games were invented. If you really are confident in a company/game, then pre-order. If not, you have no one to blame but yourself if you pre-order and the game turns out broken. |
You can't trust games to not be broken. You can't trust advertisements. You can't trust pre-release footage. You can't trust professional reviewers. You can't trust reviews for the first week. Do you see how complicated this whole process is getting? We just want to play a game that is like it is advertised and actually FUNCTIONS. Like seriously, why is this process so frigin difficult where I've now got to jump through so many hoops just to get a working game that I think I'll enjoy?
Also if EVERY user started doing what you are suggesting, that is wait a week and find reviews, then there would be no user reviews because everyone would be waiting for reviews that would never come out. In other words someone somewhere is taking the fall just so that you can see if the game is truly playable at launch since you just stated we can no longer trust professional reviewers who get the games early. No one should have to take the fall.
