Im so sick and tired of...
People riding on your ass cuz youre not driving fast enough for them. Guess what pal? You thought I was going to slow before? Prepare for the longest ride of your life. 35 mph was too slow? How about 20? Now Im gonna be late too and it's totally worth it! Yes. I'm that fucking petty.
I am sick and tired of video games that release in an early access state, remain buggy as all heck even after their initial full release once they get out of the early accesses state... and end up needing constant patches and updates over a span of months or even years just to make the game the way it should have been right out the gate. It is lazy programming, lazy development, and even lazier marketing. I refuse to buy any game that releases in early access for this reason, and any game that takes months or years to get working isn't worth the bother to try and play. It's as bad as fighting games that make half of their characters DLC "With more on the way!" rather than releasing the game with a full roster like it used to be back in the day. Heck, I still have very fond memories of playing Battle Arena Toshinden 3 on my old Playstation 1 system, and it had a full roster of 32 characters to play as with 14 to start with and the rest unlockable within the game. Back then, that was how fighting games were... no DLC, no microtransactions, and no buggy early access nonsense. Back then, if you saw a game on the shelves... you were assured it was a complete and finished product ready to be enjoyed without any worries. These days, half the time fighting games release with a meager 10 characters if you're lucky and the rest you have to buy as they release them in order for the greedy company to make more money off a subpar product. Now, I do like some DLCs for some games, when they are reasonable! Like, extra costumes or the occasional bonus character or whatnot... but those sorts of things should be addons to a game, not content cut from it or never released from it and then spoon fed to the player, whilst making you have to pay for each tiny morsel of content. I also despise live service games where you have to be online so you can access the game's content off of a company's servers, because when inevitably those servers go down... you are left with no game to play, and you're out the money you spent on it. To me, that is shifty design at best... and I am not a fan of it in the least. The whole reason I refuse to buy or play a live service game of any kind. It's one thing to have a game you can play offline that has optional online features... that is alright, I have no problems with that... but it is quite another to basically sell you not so much a game, but a program used to access a server that contains the game. All whilst marketing what you bought as the actual game when it isn't. That is beyond deceptive for people who don't realize what live service actually consists of. Me, I prefer more honest developers who if anything do things more old school style, releasing a polished finished product that is enjoyable from start to finish. :)
