If you follow me on twitter, you'll know I recently got a PS4. While I haven't had much time to play it what with being at Uni, I went home for the weekend and decided to boot up the system. When the system loaded up it told me I couldn't log in and needed a firmware update. "Fair enough" I thought, and waited 30 minutes for the update to download and install. Ok good, that's all out of the way. My console restarted and I was informed that there were updates ranging from 300mb to 2gb for every game in my collection. 6 hours later, all the updates were FINALLY done.
The past few years have seen big changes in the way developers maintain their games, but this culture of buying a game and then having huge updates to fix them post-release is really starting to annoy me. It's great that developers try to fix bugs in their games, but these bugs shouldn't even happen. If games weren't churned out like episodes of a TV Soap, they'd be ironed out and bugs will be fixed.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag had the biggest update of 2gb (and probably had the most problems in the first place, including an annoying uplay glitch that stopped me from doing ANY of the online/multiplayer activities in the game - I still don't know if this is fixed as of writing this) and also happened to be the one game I wanted to play. I ended up compromising with a console, as if it's an actual human being, and decided to waste some time on Battlefield 4...
or at least I would've, if it didn't have a 350mb update that I also had to wait on. Of course, everything else updating alongside it didn't help either.
So yeah, I don't understand the huge focus developers have on patching their games after release, unless it adds new content. I totally understand why it's done considering the way games are released these days, but I can't help but wish we lived in a time like the retro days of what you buying at the store being the full package - how can someone say a game is released if it's a broken mess in need of constant patching and updates?
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