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Machiavellian on 28 April 2023
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Angelus said:
Machiavellian said:

Not sure if that would really make a difference.  Think about it this way, if they say its a bug, people would still say hold the release until you fix it.  In gamers mind its still an L no matter what but for a business, its money.  I am sure if they are shipping at 30 its one of those bugs that takes a hell of a lot of development time or it would be a day one bug release.  When you do not have a clear understanding how long it will take to reach 60fps and hopefully rock solid which I am going to doubt because most games do not ship with a rock solid 60fps mode.  They probably just have to take that L and make sure the rest of the game performs rock solid at 30fps.  If the game dips a lot and run like crap at 30fps, there is going to be hell to pay with the negative feedback.  They probably pouring all their dev time in making the 30fps rock solid as that needs to be tight.

Obiously, the fanboy reaction will always be the fanboy reaction, but I do think that for reasonable gamers, it makes a difference whether you simply blurt out into the wind "ok this is the way the game launches, c ya..." vs "listen, here's what our plan/intention was, here's what happened, it's unfortunate, but at this point in the process it's too late to pull back the release, we'll work hard to bring you this ASAP once X is resolved, etc."

The thing is most reasonable gamers already was reasonable so you not really gaining any mindshare.  Instead, once you give out the details then it's the main source of conversation and it continue to promote negative feedback.  Also, once you start down that road then gamers get entitled and feel you always need to tell them everything that's happening during development.  Its best to just drop the bad news and move on.  To linger on bad news keeps it in the news.  Maybe it's just me but I have not found it very profitable to engage in the community to much.  I have gone on too many community forums and they are a hot mess of bitching.