563
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 154 points 11 months ago

I have major regret for buying this game. Games like this should have a 20 hour refund window instead of 2. It took me 2 hours to realize it wasn't possible to get the game to not run like garbage.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 80 points 11 months ago

Well if the companies refuse to give you a demo to try, maybe you should pirate it to try and then purchase it.

Another option is becoming a patient gamer and just waiting for the game to get better (if it does) a year or two down the line and then buy it at a discount.

In the last few years there aren't many games I didnt regret buying early.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

I usually do pirate and then buy (if worthy) but surely a major Bethesda release would be worth 80 bucks, right?

Right?

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago
[-] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Wrong. They proved that they could no longer be trusted after the release of Fallout 76.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

That was a gigantic flaming red flag that I ignored

[-] archon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Only consolation is that it might be good in 5 years.. :(

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago

I'd rather buy it than spend hours and hours downloading and failing to unpack it for unknown reasons.

But I'm not going to spend more than like 10 minutes trying to make it work. If it takes longer than that, it's just a shit game that doesn't deserve my money. Too many other perfectly good games to spend my time playing to fuck around with all of that.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Perhaps Steam's policy should be 2 hours or 10% of expected playtime as set by the devs, whichever is greater, perhaps with a max of 10 hours. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

[-] noyou@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

For real i have a 5800x3d and 4080 it shouldn't be running the way it is

[-] verysoft@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

So, what have we learnt for the next big release?

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Pirate before I buy

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

A bit late now but it's on Game Pass. You said it took two hours to realise your computer couldn't run it well, so that was enough I guess?

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Same thing happened to me for X4 foundations. Took me a good 30-40 hours to understand what a waste of time it was.

Literally zero enjoyment and it sits on my library laughing at me.

this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
563 points (94.6% liked)

Games

16798 readers
576 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS