We find ourselves, on the part of the major development studios, in a great hurry to launch games. The deadlines, from what we can see, are getting shorter when it comes to launching new video games and that’s a shame. Hogwarts Legacy came on the market clearly unfinishedwith thousands of bugs and a blatant lack of optimization, but it’s not the only one.
Games like Warzone 2.0 or Cyberpunk 2077 are examples of unfinished and unoptimized games that were released on schedule. It seems that from the beginning of development until the release of the game, less and less time passes. This forces users to pay (or not, if it’s free) to be beta testers of games.
A pleasure that becomes a test
For starters, let’s say Hogwarts Legacy isn’t officially released, but it’s already playable. Additionally, we see how many streamers have played the game and some conclusions can already be drawn. Most obviously, development times are getting shorter and this generates countless problems for video games.
It has become a trend to release unfinished games, even with delays. Let’s remember that Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed to fix and optimize bugs, for not having finished. The funny thing is that despite the delay, it is clear that the game started without being finished, with dozens of bugs and failures. And we’re not talking about a 10-20 euro game, we’re talking about a 60 euro game, not to mention the happy DLCs.
War Zone 2.0 is another case of unfinished games but they are discarded The peculiarity of this game is that it has no cost for the user, at least initially. In the game we can acquire passes that give us different skins. But, considering the disaster of the game that it is, it does not invite you to pay anything. Honestly, playing it wears me out for the times closes for no reason
What these cases invite you to think is that they don’t care, it’s just about selling and recouping the investment. It’s okay to throw a product on the market that does not work well, total, we are stupid and we buy them and we play them, despite knowing it. But the bloodiest thing is that no one cares and by no one I mean the regulated bodies.
Quality conformity marking is urgently needed
A car, a household appliance and many other products pass standardized quality controls. It still seems strong that a video game has to pass a series of filters, but it wouldn’t hurt to avoid this tendency. Nobody cared about loot boxes until EA got out of control and generated a big conflict that ended up making them more or less illegal.
It is clear that video game consumers cannot constantly find unfinished games. It would be like buying a book with missing pages or a movie with missing parts. It’s reached an untenable point and that especially takes me away from video games. It’s getting harder and harder for me to try out or get interested in new games, because I don’t feel like paying for unfinished junk work.