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Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not what Gaben meant.

He is saying that games that were released despite being buggy or unfinished or both will have a permanent stain in the user reception. Basically, updates cannot fix a bad first impression.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, if that's what he meant it's a good point.

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