UltimateUnknown said:
You realise that if everyone did this there would be no online game to play at launch. A MP game is entirely dependent on a community and their trust. As a consumer you should feel safe in buying the game based on the concepts that you've been shown through trailers and other promotional material. You shouldn't have to watch entire playthroughs just because you're paranoid that the game may not work as advertised. That is false advertisement. Again, reviews are great, but they can be very misleading as I mentioned in the case of BF4, which is one of the biggest multiplayer franchises. Reviewers often play these games in their own special servers and conditions which are completely different than the ones that the general public have to play under. |
If everyone did this, maybe developers would approach things differently than basically having paid beta testing. And who are we kidding? We all know that there will be gullible people out there who will buy it day one, often pre-ordering it. Those are the people who will do the beta testing for us. Then we hear of the massive network issues, and then the developer will either fix it, and we can buy it later. Or they won't, and we avoided a waste of money.
