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Video games are hard to make. We’ve reported as much countless times on this website, often with details that reveal crunch conditions that still didn’t prevent the buggy game from happening. But video games still need to work when they are released, ideally under better working conditions. This seems like a pretty simple request. I don’t even mind if the game itself turns out to be bad. But games, even bad ones, need to function.
Yet this year we’ve seen countless big games, like Pokemon Violet/Scarlet, FIFA, Overwatch 2, Gotham Knights, Saint’s Row, and more ship in pretty terrible, lousy states. Many of these games do eventually fix all their bugs, performance issues, and other problems with patches and updates. But if companies want to charge more for games, as they are now starting to do with the advent of the new generation, they probably need to make sure they work at launch. Speaking of that…
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