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Angelus on 15 August 2016
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naruball said:
Angelus said:
Somebody should really explain to me how preloading a day 1 patch, or at worst, waiting an hour or so on a patch to download (hell let's go extreme and say a day if your internet is straight up garbage), is somehow not preferable to waiting an additional two months on a game. I mean surely you guys are joking right?

Perhaps you're the one who's joking.

You know that data cap is still a thing in certain countries(/areas), right? More importantly, the reviewers get the game early and review it without paying much (if any) attention to the first day patch so that they can release their review as soon as possible.

This ensures that they will play the game as intended and won't give a low score for something that they actually fixed.

Mhm...I'm one of those people that has a data cap. So? Just because they cut your speed doesn't stop you from anything. It'll just take longer. And as for the reviews....every other dev seems to get by fine with day one patches without instantly being shit on by critics (unless the game is actually shit). If they're that panicked about it they can just extend the embargo on the reviews to make sure the patch gets taken into account. This is standard stuff.

Literally the only people this benefits is people with no internet access at all.