shikamaru317 said:
The fact of the matter is that publishers have to do something on their end to block leaks and spoilers in this day and age. Retailers have made it clear that they aren't capable of following the very basic concept of the street date. Games arrive at retailers in cardboard boxes with the street date printed in giant font on them and stickers that say "do not break the street day", I have seen them behind he counter at Gamestop before, and yet many retailers don't follow it, especially in the middle east, they just hand out the copies as soon as they get them at the store. If the publishers/devs don't do something to block the leaks and spoilers on there end, such as requiring a small day one download to enable the campaign, leaks and spoilers are inevitable in this day and age. The devs don't want the story they worked hard on being spoiled before the game has even released, while the publishers don't want to lose money because people saw spoilers and decided they're no longer interested, so I can hardly say I blame them. The only thing that is anti-consumer imo is the size of the update, over 8GB. The download that enables campaign should be no bigger than 100 MB imo, I see no reason why it should be larger than that, it is possible for them to make it separate from the other huge day-one update that includes bug fixes. If Actvision had made it separate like they should have I would have no issue with this at all. If you can't download a 100 MB or smaller day one update you probably should be concentrating your efforts on moving somewhere that doesn't suck instead of whiling away your day playing CoD. 41% of people worldwide had access to internet in 2014 and the average speed was 3 mbit/s, and almost all of the people that had access to no internet at all were in 3rd world countries, so very, very few of them are gamers anyway. On that average 3 mbit/s connection you could download a 100 MB update that enables campaign in just 260 seconds, and even on an ancient 56k modem you could download it in less than 4 hours, which would be highly inconvinient, but think how few gamers worldwide only have access to 56k anyway, probably less than 0.001%. |
The only thing they need to do is sell me a video game that works when I buy it. Screw looking out for the publishers on that one. Why should gamers be punished for not being able to play their game because some people can't stay off Youtube and the like? If someone sees something in a game they don't like and don't want to purchase it based on that, then that's their right to do so. You may as well be against reviews with this kind of action. No need to facilitate lie culture and anti-consumer culture in gaming in one fell swoop.
