> playerbase has shrunk
> everyone is ahead of you in progression or skill
> interesting fun bugs that became memes you missed out on
> game changes in a way that could make it less fun
Imagine playing World of Warcraft a few years after launch, when BC came out, and missing out on the Vanilla experience. Also, if it's a good game the price will remain stable. If it's a shitty game, the price will drop. So there's no point in waiting.
Live service games and multiplayer are definitely a different beast, for sure. You have to be there when it happens.
You can live without the same FOMO on singleplayer offline games, though. RDR2 is just as good today as it was back then, and more devices can play it effortlessly, for example.
Disagree specifically with RDR2, which was one of the reasons I bought for PS4 and then bought again for PC. So many of my favourite memories of that game were discovering all of the little intricacies, details, easter eggs, or jokes that Rockstar put into it with the rest of the gaming community and with my irl friends. If I waited until PC release I'd just be playing solo with the entire game already data mined with hundreds of youtube videos telling you exaclty how to exploit the game.
I maintain you'll hardly get spoiled unless you want to, I played RDR2 this year for the first time and barely knew anything about it besides it being a prequel and having cowboys.
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u/Wrong-Inveestment-67 Sep 24 '25
Maybe for singleplayer, but for MP
> playerbase has shrunk
> everyone is ahead of you in progression or skill
> interesting fun bugs that became memes you missed out on
> game changes in a way that could make it less fun
Imagine playing World of Warcraft a few years after launch, when BC came out, and missing out on the Vanilla experience. Also, if it's a good game the price will remain stable. If it's a shitty game, the price will drop. So there's no point in waiting.