I have been playing video game exclusively on the PC for about 4 year now and it seem as though the number of PC games being released with game crippling bugs are rapidly increasing.
If you take most of the game that are 3-4 years old and load em up; it is more than likely that you will be able to play the Single player game from start to finish without having to download any patches or updates (provided you get the game to work on XP SP2).
I dont know what is causing Devs to release these unoptimized games that are ridden with bugs to the PC gaming community. It might be the fact that big money is now in console gaming or the fact that the complexity of these new highly detailed games is causing for these bugs to pop up all over the place. Regardless of what is causing this trend, it is very upsetting to spend hard earned money on a game that you have been looking forward to for months only to find out that its unplayable until the Devs decide to release a patch.
The reason for this rant is Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. As I had been looking forward to the game for about 2 months and now that its finally here, just about everyone who owns it seems to be having problems with it.
If you take most of the game that are 3-4 years old and load em up; it is more than likely that you will be able to play the Single player game from start to finish without having to download any patches or updates (provided you get the game to work on XP SP2).
I dont know what is causing Devs to release these unoptimized games that are ridden with bugs to the PC gaming community. It might be the fact that big money is now in console gaming or the fact that the complexity of these new highly detailed games is causing for these bugs to pop up all over the place. Regardless of what is causing this trend, it is very upsetting to spend hard earned money on a game that you have been looking forward to for months only to find out that its unplayable until the Devs decide to release a patch.
The reason for this rant is Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. As I had been looking forward to the game for about 2 months and now that its finally here, just about everyone who owns it seems to be having problems with it.