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Hynad on 17 April 2018
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Nautilus said:
Hynad said:

The main points that people complain. Why complain. The issues with those ports won't magically get solved because gamers complain.

I am sure the companies making those games don't do that on purpose. They want to make money. Their goal isn't to piss their potential customers, after all. Because pissed potential costumers, are potentially not customers at all.

So the idea that they willingly neglect some gamers, despite putting the cash necessary into making versions of their games for the hardware is quite unreasonable.

Not complaining wont fix the issue either.So what do you propose?Sit by idily, making no pressure, and the companies will listen?

Im not saying that they are doing this on purpose per say.Just that they are either being really inneficient with this, or simply being incompetent.Being incompetent by either not being sure your game will be ready by the time you said it would, or by announcing something that isnt even in production yet.I mean, people looooove to complain that only Nintendo fans do that when its their console is concerned, but what about all the complaining about KH III taking so long to come out?Or about FF 7 Remake?Are they all too Sony fanboys that dont know what they are talking about, that dont know how game development work and thus cant complain about it?See where this leads, especially since that line of argument is far from the truth?

If this were you, and you screwed up something on your job, there would be consequences, one of which could be termination of your job.I know that the companies dont own us anything and all, but even between two friend or two colegues, your word should mean something and when you break it, you should be ready for some kind of consequence.Thats what i mean.

The game isn't your job, and you're not the dev's boss. Right?

But what I propose is what I do. I take the games when they're ready. You won't find me complaining about delays like that. I'm not perfect, but that's something I simply don't do. There are more than enough other games to keep me occupied. So if a game gets delayed, it's not like I'm left with nothing else to play.

I waited years for FF XV and TLG. I mocked the situation a few times. But I didn't complain as if the developer owed me anything.

As for you calling the developers either being incompetent or inefficient. Is it really one or the other? Can't it be something else? Why can it only be that when it comes to third party developers making games for the Switch? Is Nintendo also incompetent when they delay games? That's certainly not the narrative that comes out of these forums, for sure. 

The Switch version uses a hardware architecture that's very different from the other platforms. It's not really difficult to imagine how that complicates the porting process of these kind of games. And before you bring up examples of games that did manage to release on time, I'll point out that each game is different and their requirements are in turn different as well. Couple that with the size of the teams, the number of ports being overseen simultaneously, etc.. and you may be able to see a side of the coin that doesn't necessarily condemn the dev.

Last edited by Hynad - on 17 April 2018