SvennoJ said:
Shared pain is half the pain?
https://www.eurogamer.net/psa-the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastered-microsoft-store-update-accidentally-deletes-upscaling-options-from-player-settings "Last night I was playing with a smooth 60fps on ultra at 85% GPU load on Ultra at 1440p. After this update I'm struggling to even hit 45 with MAX GPU load and CPU temps spiking. This update definitely broke something." "Yeah, this made it completely unplayable on my end," this player added. "I'm not even sure what y'all did, but I'll patiently wait for a fix :(".
We had similar issues with PoE2 (like suddenly not be able to use abilities anymore as stats requirements changed), but that has the excuse it's in beta.
While I was doing my world tour in FS2020 during the pandemic, every monthly update I had to basically learn to fly again. Figure out what was broken this time and find workarounds. Either flight controls messed up, graphical settings / load messed up, new crashes, new plane behavior. After nearly a year I arrived back home in quite a different plane and game. I developed quite the patch day ptsd from FS2020 lol.
Hence my motto nowadays is, no point playing multiple games casually, focus on one at a time as it can change any moment with a mandatory patch. My shit broke in Minecraft as well as in NMS and Elite Dangerous (The economy changed so much I went from being well off in game to the poor house in worthless old tech after a year break).
Which is all a big issue with game preservation. I still have the original discs of DriveClub, NMS, GT Sport / GT7. All totally different games than the release version. Not only adding more content but also altering the physics for better and worse. And of course with DC and GT Sport, no more online servers, most of the game is inaccessible.
At least with movies the original can always still be played. With games not so much.
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Quality control really has dropped over the years but not just in gaming.
They dont make hardware (like Refrigerators and Microwaves) like they use to - its all in the design so people would get up and buy the newer item instead of holding on to something for 10-20 years.
