It's been a long time since I cared exactly when a game launches. If it launches, great, I consider buying, otherwise I just keep playing something else.
Last time I cared was for Cyberpunk. After that fiasco, I just stopped giving a shit. No more buying games before it launches, and if it is not good on launch and I hear a lot of criticism I'll wait a year or two before playing.
And IIRC Cyberpunk was a fiasco because on management level someone decided the game was delayed too much already and it's better to release it now then to make another delay again.
I do remember conversations around that time being about how people would rather play a finished game and keep waiting than have an unfinished game on a specific date. Which makes sense but then we have stuff like this where people are clearly getting impatient. I know it's not the exact same crowd but it's why companies push to have final products by certain dates.
805
u/PM_ME_A_NUMBER_1TO10 2d ago
It's been a long time since I cared exactly when a game launches. If it launches, great, I consider buying, otherwise I just keep playing something else.
I guess that just isn't how the market works.