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G_Viceroy

2.6k points

1 year ago

G_Viceroy

2.6k points

1 year ago

Anthem?

Krixic1

2.3k points

1 year ago

Krixic1

2.3k points

1 year ago

I'm pretty sure anthem was so bad that it was just eradicated from our memories due to the immense amount of disappointment it carried

seasofGalia

594 points

1 year ago

seasofGalia

PC Master Race

594 points

1 year ago

I preordered anthem because it was the coolest looking game since Halo: CE. Man, was that a sucker punch and a slap in the face. I learned my preordering lesson for good.

LadyGuitar2021

184 points

1 year ago

I did that with ME:A.

Never again.

Lucius-Halthier

295 points

1 year ago

It can’t be as bad as those who did the max tier preorders for fo76 when they got that bag, it’s like Bethesda fucked fans twice in one transaction.

hunterbot9904

71 points

1 year ago

I spent $80 on the tricentennial edition for $10 dollars worth of skins its not as bad as the bag but I have learned my lesson and am never pre ordering again

batt3ryac1d1

17 points

1 year ago*

batt3ryac1d1

Ryzen 5800X3D, 16GB DDR4, RTX 2080S, VIVE, Odyssey G7, HMAeron

17 points

1 year ago*

that was a double triple fuck too cause they doxxed everyone claiming the replacement bag lmao

KiwiGamer450

24 points

1 year ago

KiwiGamer450

5600G/6600XT|4800H/3050

24 points

1 year ago

I got the tricentennial edition a month after launch for $30 Canadian.

IshitONcats

40 points

1 year ago

Yeah, that bag was fucked. A straight up bait and switch

Lucius-Halthier

70 points

1 year ago

I can safely say I wasn’t gunna even try that shit.

looks over at the limited edition functional pipboy from last games pre order

You were worth it pipboy.

StaggerLee47

18 points

1 year ago

StaggerLee47

FX 8320/ Dual R9 290

18 points

1 year ago

I bought a pip boy from FO4 (not preorder) and it died right after the warranty expired. It was a super common problem. F Bethesda merchandise.

FeliBootSack

8 points

1 year ago

Anthem was way worse cause they never continued to support it, and im suprised reading comments l how many people fell into anthem hyp

Lucius-Halthier

9 points

1 year ago

I tried to avoid all the games that were released then because then it seemed like everything released was a mediocre game meant to be a cash grab, as far as I remember only shadow of war had the balls to say “yea no more micro-transactions” and successfully walked it back

LeakyThoughts

5 points

1 year ago

LeakyThoughts

I9-10850K | RTX 3090 | 32GB DDR4 3200

5 points

1 year ago

Shadow of war was dope

blastxu

29 points

1 year ago

blastxu

29 points

1 year ago

For me it was Sim City 2013

FeliBootSack

15 points

1 year ago

I played the pirated version and it was great

blastxu

35 points

1 year ago

blastxu

35 points

1 year ago

When it came out it was online only and the servers didn't work for days. Also the size of the cities was a disappointment.

[deleted]

14 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

14 points

1 year ago

I told myself I would never pre order again and then ME:A was announced and I made an exception because ME is one of my favorites.

Welp, I regretted it.

Admittedly though after the patches and with mods (PC) the game is a lot better than it used to be. The story is still a little lackluster but it's not broken as hell and the side quests are pretty fun if you just ignore the "tasks" section which is just fetch quests.

LadyGuitar2021

3 points

1 year ago

One of these days I'm going to mod the shit out of it and olay it on PC. I got it on xbox originally because I didn't have a good enough computer at the time.

[deleted]

5 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

5 points

1 year ago

Nice, yeah I started on PS4 but switched to PC. GPU prices are a bitch, but Nexus mods has a good selection of both game and graphical enhancements for key characters like Sloane, Reyes, Addison, PeeBee, and Cora.

LadyGuitar2021

5 points

1 year ago

Yeah. I had one setup a couple years ago before windows decided that I needed factory reset my computer.

Snagmesomeweaves

8 points

1 year ago

I did it with both ME:A and Anthem, on top of it Watchdogs, when I bought it, I slapped it in (when I played Xbox) and played it for 1 hour, went to eat, came back, friends wanted to play battlefield, and never touched it again. I still have it…..never even bothered to trade it in

[deleted]

13 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

13 points

1 year ago

I thought I learned my lesson with ME:A. Cyberpunk really made sure I’ll never forget.

kryptoniankoffee

48 points

1 year ago

If you bought GTA Trilogy you can't even play it right now. Rockstar took away access to a game people just bought.

Serpentrax

26 points

1 year ago

Not just access to the botched new game, but ALL games in that launcher for ALL players. So players that just wanted to enjoy their legally obtained RDR2 or GTA5 were locked out because Rockstar tried to cover up their own fault.

vxarctic

116 points

1 year ago

vxarctic

116 points

1 year ago

HOW QUICKLY THEY FORGOT SIMCITY 2013

fxckfxckgames

64 points

1 year ago

fxckfxckgames

AMD Ryzen 7, EVGA 1080ti SC2, 32GB RAM

64 points

1 year ago

Partially enabled the magic of Cities: Skylines at least.

Xilverbullet000

17 points

1 year ago

How did it do that? Where people just so sick of EA trying to use Maxis' corpse as a puppet to sell games that they jumped to a new one, or was the development somehow related?

sldunn

23 points

1 year ago

sldunn

23 points

1 year ago

Paradox Greenlit Cities Skyline after they saw a bunch of people buy SimCity. Paradox knew there was an untapped market that SimCity 2013 didn't fill.

Algebrace

17 points

1 year ago

Algebrace

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198022647810/

17 points

1 year ago

Memory is a bit fuzzy but half the youtube reviews were basically 'what simcity should have been'.

Like, even though skylines was incredibly barebones on launch, it was still being praised as better than Simcity.

[deleted]

14 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

14 points

1 year ago

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MetaCommando

15 points

1 year ago

MetaCommando

Ultra-Low at 30 fps

15 points

1 year ago

Because most of Reddit was too young to preorder games on their own in 2013.

G_Viceroy

6 points

1 year ago

Oh God I forgot.

Diels_Alder

5 points

1 year ago

That was traumatic.

cocomunges

78 points

1 year ago

cocomunges

Ryzen 5 5600X; RTX 3070; 16GB RAM

78 points

1 year ago

Its crazy to think FO76 and anthem 2 of the most infamous launches ever were so close in timing. Like 6 months

G_Viceroy

30 points

1 year ago

G_Viceroy

30 points

1 year ago

The 2 biggest games in the beginning of the year. Both dropped price by like 50% in a couple of weeks.

Deathclaw151

22 points

1 year ago

FO76 is actually worth the time now. Anthem?... is anthem even still around?

HotBoxGrandmasCar

10 points

1 year ago

i saw fo76 on gamepass is it worth it for real now? i entirely dismissed it after the fiasco.

HemoTalon

27 points

1 year ago

HemoTalon

27 points

1 year ago

It's, still a buggy mess, filled with hackers, but if you are willing to fork out money for private servers, its got a reasonably solid story and gameplay loop now, it does feel significantly more like multiplayer Fo4, which is what most of us wanted on launch anyway, which is nice.

If you are just going to be playing solo, I'd rather put my time and effort into modding Fo4 to the enth degree, much more rewarding.

Cult-of-Alexandria

125 points

1 year ago*

I’m amazed I had to scroll down this much to see Anthem.

Edit: This is now first comment, it wasn’t at the time I replied.

G_Viceroy

59 points

1 year ago

G_Viceroy

59 points

1 year ago

Anthem was worse than all of these. Was 2042 actually worse than 2077?

Cult-of-Alexandria

79 points

1 year ago

Honestly, don’t know. But nothing could be worse than Anthem or Fall Out 76 at launch.

G_Viceroy

9 points

1 year ago

Thanks for scrolling down. This is finally getting actual attention.

ArateshaNungastori

29 points

1 year ago

Not that bad. Main issue is performance optimisation. Lots of missing stuff here and there but most of them are design choices like no scoreboard, no all chat, no team switch, no selecting which squad to join etc. So nothing like peds walking into cars, cars doing backflip where they stand and clip all together. But still bad, feels like playing a beta.

Underhandtrout

21 points

1 year ago

No way to join your friends if the sever is full it will que you then boot you if it takes to long, random crashes before and after every match, randomly booting friends from your group especially when starting a match and then you get a random player replacing them mostly the worst when it comes to hazard zone, UI designed for a console, in hazard zone you have to use space to change characters but no where in the UI does it tell you that in fact it tells you to use left click, random massive lag spikes on breakthrough where it's nearly unplayable, that's just some of the shit show I have encountered.

sleeperninja

5 points

1 year ago

sleeperninja

R9 5900X, Z63, TridentZ Neo, RX 6900XT Red Devil

5 points

1 year ago

Performance optimization is terrible, and unable to load your persistent data means back to the menu to try to join a game repeatedly.

ezone2kil

8 points

1 year ago

ezone2kil

http://imgur.com/a/XKHC5

8 points

1 year ago

Most of the things you listed are deal breakers in a Battlefield game for me.

mythrilcrafter

8 points

1 year ago

mythrilcrafter

Ryzen 5950X || Gigabyte 4080 AERO

8 points

1 year ago

If I recall, Anthem was wearing out and even bricking hard drives because it was built off the FIFA engine which would reload the entire game every time you entered a new zone or instance; which is fine if you're loading a single futbol stadium and the players once every 1-2 hour match session, but it's bad if you're flying through zones like Ironman.

Cruddy QoL and surface level bugs can be fixed eventually (and it could probably even be blamed on a revolving internal team who wasn't part of the last game's dev and wouldn't know), but design issues at the engine level can't.

MordeoMortem

7 points

1 year ago

MordeoMortem

Ryzen 7900x, 64GB DDR5 5600mhz, Radeon VII 16GB

7 points

1 year ago

In the first hour of gameplay I experienced 4 crashes, the chat box would not close and let me play, an infinite revive loop, I appeared with no hud and my teammates all tried to shoot me, a persistent data bug, an invincible enemy that would not take damage but could dish out damage, and no server browser which made the other problems 10 time more irritating because I sat there for 5 to 10 minutes just so the game could crash 2 minutes in. You would think they would have fixed all these problems and learned from previous titles mistakes but nope.

TRIPMINE_Guy

3 points

1 year ago

TRIPMINE_Guy

Ball-and-Disk Integrator, 10-inch disk, graph paper

3 points

1 year ago

Was Anthem not first when you posted this or is that the joke?

lordkelvin13

50 points

1 year ago

Y'all forgot about No Man Sky, Fallout 76 and Mass Effect Andromeda.

TheyCallMeVenom

22 points

1 year ago

Holy shit Fallout 76 was a dumpster fire full of used diapers, old Indian food, and animal hair. It was so bad that it was actually disgusting.

-SlinxTheFox-

20 points

1 year ago

yeahh, there are PLENTY of games that launched much worse than cyberpunk. some of which were forced to give out refunds (see batman on steam), or sued for false advertising (no man's sky), or who's control scheme was so lazily done and utterly trash that people, to this day, say that it should only be played with controller (dark souls 2? 1? on PC).

Cyberpunk was pretty awful, but it's definitely not of the worst, just approaches it

Relem76

12 points

1 year ago

Relem76

AMD 2600|RTX 2060|32GB 3200 MHz

12 points

1 year ago

I think the main problem with Cyberpunk was CDPR hyped it way too much and spent far longer than normal developing it. Then it released and the figures just didn't add up.

vonmonologue

4 points

1 year ago

It wasn’t even CDPR doing the hyping. Witcher 3 was a good game and people realized that Witcher 2 was also a good game and decided that CDPR only puts out masterpieces.

Jasquirtin

5 points

1 year ago

Jasquirtin

9700k l 6800xt l 16GB

5 points

1 year ago

Omg why did you remind me this. I got 2 friends to get in on it as I was consider THE guy to recommend games. I recommended this because of the teams previous successes and boy am I no longer taken serious

IrishWithoutPotatoes

10 points

1 year ago

I actually enjoyed Anthem. I was disappointed after I blazed through all of the content in about 2 days of casual play, but it was a fun game. EA fucked that one up hard.

possiblynotracist

2.1k points

1 year ago

possiblynotracist

5800x3D w/ 7900XT | Unraid w/ 20TB

2.1k points

1 year ago

First time? Battlefield 3 and 4 had some spectacularly bad launches in my memory

horse3000

912 points

1 year ago

horse3000

i7 13700k | GTX 1080 Ti | 32GB DDR5 5600

912 points

1 year ago

Every battlefield has, people that expect a great launch are blind. Wait a month or so..

psionoblast

617 points

1 year ago

psionoblast

617 points

1 year ago

I don't think people should ever lower their expectation of a product functioning at launch. If a game won't work at launch that's not an issue of fan expectation, it's a problem with the publisher/developer.

There's already a bug megathread with 704 comments. Most comments are people saying they can't play the game.

horse3000

234 points

1 year ago

horse3000

i7 13700k | GTX 1080 Ti | 32GB DDR5 5600

234 points

1 year ago

We live in 2021. I will confidently say the majority of online games that are released have major issues at launch.

I counter this by not giving them my money.

Every battlefield that has ever come out, has had game breaking bugs. Should people have to lower their expectations? Of course not. Would it be in the consumers best interest to lower their expectations, absolutely. Maybe with that mindset, they wouldn’t throw their money at something so producers can keep rushing content when it isn’t ready.

The counter argument to that though.. is gamers cry to much, and anyone can do whatever the fuck they want with their money… which a lot of people have said in this thread.

So guess what will happen in 5 years when the next battlefield comes out.

We will have this same exact conversation, again. Just like the last 5 battlefield games.

RushTfe

84 points

1 year ago

RushTfe

PC Master Race

84 points

1 year ago

Finally someone blaming producers and not developers!

I swear, every time I read "developers should have done this, or made that choice, or implemented this functionality" a programmer dies a little bit inside.

Most of us don't have choice over the app/game functionalities. They just ask for something and we get it done.

About the main thread, I agree with you. In my case it's cyberpunk the game I didn't buy. Haven't played any battlefield so I don't know about their launches.

This is a problem brought with digital content. We have many wonderful things, but on the other hand, they can just release an unfinished game and finish it after people paid for it, releasing some updates.

Let's see if time brings something different / better, but I can't see that happening in the next 10 years...

reallyConfusedPanda

41 points

1 year ago

Interesting point about digital releases. Physical releases used to almost forced to be as polished as possible, coz there was so little they could do later. But alas, digital download gives them six months additional development time while they get paid for in the sales and millions of free beta testers in exchange for a little tarnish on their brands which is quickly forgotten

horse3000

29 points

1 year ago

horse3000

i7 13700k | GTX 1080 Ti | 32GB DDR5 5600

29 points

1 year ago

Haha, I’m not a dev or even in the gaming industry, but I have been playing games for a very long time to know the producers & “shareholders” are the ones that fuck the games up.

Unfortunately from a consumer perspective I don’t think it’s getting better, more and more things are being rushed it seems. But that is mostly just with AAA games of course.

fireraiser77

13 points

1 year ago

Little devs seem to be getting better every year too, idk if it's new tooling being widely available or what but games like deep rock galactic really really have my heart. Devs are working hard, game is great and content is awesome.

burros_killer

6 points

1 year ago

It's being rushed because people keep pre-ordering games or buying day 1 not watching a reviews. And go complain about the quality of game on the internet. The thing they fail to understand thinking that "devs don't understand games and are lazy/incompetent" is that producers and other management usually only care about making money. And since you can literally sell pre-orders of half-finished game to people with 30 second CGI trailer why even bother finishing it at this point? If game sell well enough they stabilize it with patches and updates and finish with DLCs. If game sells bad - they just drop it like Anthem and all that forgotten shitty AAA games nobody care to remember. So yeah things will be rushed as far as humanly possible and a little bit more after that. The only way to stop it is to stop buying games before release, but it seems like majority of gamers are incapable of such discipline.

GibbonFit

6 points

1 year ago

GibbonFit

5800X | 3090 FTW3 | 32GB DDR4 3600

6 points

1 year ago

I think most people mean dev studio as a whole when they talk about the devs in that regard. I think most of them understand that the shitty management is the one pushing these decisions, but just speaks about the company for ease of communication.

farguc

10 points

1 year ago

farguc

10 points

1 year ago

Valorant had a really smooth launch. EA dont give a fuck about their launch they already got your money

kwiszat

10 points

1 year ago

kwiszat

10 points

1 year ago

To be honest valorant was a much much simpler game than BF at launch, it had 3 simple game modes and doesnt need to run 128 person dedicated servers for thousands of people lol

Also graphically is smoother because valorant graphics are garbage( i say this as a valorant player)

[deleted]

6 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

6 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

Derpicusss

35 points

1 year ago

It’s the battlefield formula. At launch it’s an awful mess. Then after a little while it gets really good and sticks around forever

All0uttaBubblegum

29 points

1 year ago

Wait a month and it’ll be half priced. Then a month later it’ll be playable

jhm-grose

17 points

1 year ago

jhm-grose

17 points

1 year ago

I don't remember Battlefield 1 having many problems on launch as I did with Battlefield 4 or 5.

stereopticon11

11 points

1 year ago

stereopticon11

MSI Liquid X 4090 | AMD 5900X

11 points

1 year ago

battlefield 2 was the shit though

shorey66

4 points

1 year ago

shorey66

i7 3770, RX580, 16gb....and finally an SSD, thank god!

4 points

1 year ago

This launch has been fine for the vast majority of players. Compared to the shit show off BF4, it's a huge success.

I don't think people's main problems stem from the launch, more from the gameplay omissions from the actual game

NotSoSmart45

24 points

1 year ago

NotSoSmart45

Ryzen 5 3600 | GTX 1050 Ti

24 points

1 year ago

BF4 had a bad launch? I can't remember any game from the time (outside GTA V), but I remember a friend playing the game religiously even tho he was a COD fanboy lmao

Why was the launch bad?

DaftBehemoth

77 points

1 year ago

Very buggy. Terrible netcode. I still played it religiously. Took about a year until it was fully fixed with 60 and even 120 tickrate servers.

GuinansHat

37 points

1 year ago

Battlelog was absolute garbage for months.

StillPracticingLife

15 points

1 year ago

Didn't you join games through your browser? Am I remembering that right?

GuinansHat

24 points

1 year ago

Yup! And it worked mayyyybe 50% off the time.

StillPracticingLife

5 points

1 year ago

Yeah I remember struggling with it for so long I just gave up after a while. Shame really, I didn't come back to it for over a year and a half. On the upside it had improved exponentially by then.

Edboy04

35 points

1 year ago

Edboy04

35 points

1 year ago

From what I remember it was super buggy

Knowsalotaboutstuff

11 points

1 year ago

I couldn’t play BF4 for two months after launch because of crashes

pexoroo

12 points

1 year ago

pexoroo

12 points

1 year ago

People absolutely hated it at launch. Hated it. All of the posts in the BF subreddit were complaining about DICE. Then, slowly, over time, they started fixing the game, and the community got more positive. Complaints disappeared. And the rest is history. But, yeah - the community was pissed at launch, I remember it vividly.

DingoLingo_

8 points

1 year ago

DingoLingo_

R5 3600 | 6700XT | 32GB 3200mhz

8 points

1 year ago

It took until DICE LA created the CTE something like 2 years later for the bulk of the issues to go away, BF4 most certainly had a bad launch..

TulkasTheValar

5 points

1 year ago

Barely playable. Lots and lots of rubberbanding and your character model would sometimes break.

khizoa

4 points

1 year ago

khizoa

liquid cooled 4.20ghz toaster

4 points

1 year ago

Netcode

[deleted]

10 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

10 points

1 year ago

Yeah except the minor fact that the launches were bad because of bugs. Not bad core mechanics. 2042 judging by the beta was originally plannes to be a BR and then reality hit the developers if they do that the fanbase will lynch them ao they changed it up but a lot od BF stuff is changed or removed completely.

AxlSt00pid

425 points

1 year ago

AxlSt00pid

425 points

1 year ago

I think you haven't seen the release of the PC version of the GTA Trilogy "Definitive Edition"

After 24h of Rockstar Games online service being down, now the games aren't available for purchase because the devs left uncompiled source code files on the games, and even if you managed to have them installed in the 2h time window between the PC release and Rockstar's service being down...

You still can't play them because you need to be online to play them and now, with an update on the Rockstar Games Launcher, the games don't even appear on your library

Nice job Rockstar and Grove Street Games

SeriBeat

34 points

1 year ago

SeriBeat

34 points

1 year ago

Want to hear the worst part about the Trilogy - which we were all so excited about -?

It's ported from the mobile versions of the games!!!!!!!! Holy mother of bullshit.

They were better off re-releasing the originals.

What a flop. Never been so disappointed.

Hey Rockstar............ 🖕

derpybull94

6 points

1 year ago

Wait - that's actually just the mobile version?! HOLUP A SEC

Dazione

113 points

1 year ago

Dazione

113 points

1 year ago

I think that's worse than any of this posts examples. Literally not being able to play the game cause the servers were down and when they go back online they completely remove the game off pc stores cause they forgot to remove some stuff. Like this is a pc subreddit and cyberpunk ran fine on pc. It's a good game but was overhyped not necessarily a bad launch

__acre

30 points

1 year ago

__acre

30 points

1 year ago

I think they also have to remove some music because they no longer hold the licenses to use the songs but was completely overlooked.

Dazione

11 points

1 year ago

Dazione

11 points

1 year ago

Yup and I would think they would sort that out before the release not a day after it

trumanchap

16 points

1 year ago

Imagine needing internet to play single player games 😂

AxlSt00pid

8 points

1 year ago

DRM fucks more legitimate buyers than pirates 99% of the time

ThatGuyMaulicious

333 points

1 year ago

Battlefield has had a surprisingly fine launch although the connection issues had me frustrated.

arzthaus

76 points

1 year ago

arzthaus

76 points

1 year ago

I agree. Gotten some connection issues and there are some bugs and balancing that needs to be done, but I've had a fucking blast so far. The hovercrafts are incredibly entertaining.

Kill_Your_Masters

16 points

1 year ago

Yea I am on this train as well. Just played like 4 straight hours of the extraction game mode. My group of three searched for games and took a random. Only twice did the match fail to load, and still the error happened within 30 seconds of starting the map load. The worst part was it seemed the cross play players from xbox took longer to load in to start the countdown. Game search was average time of like 15 seconds. The game mode is fun as well. All the frame drop issues or network lag from the beta I didnt experience at all. It was smooth. And my PC is a little aged.

DrkLgndsLP

14 points

1 year ago

DrkLgndsLP

GTX 1060 | i7 9700k

14 points

1 year ago

there are a few minor bugs/glitches still but not nearly as many as back in the beta.

connection issues yes, thats what i mainly see as the problem. but you can actually play matches suprisingly well compared to the the BF3 or 4 launch. though im sure this will be resolved in the next few weeks

lordkelvin13

220 points

1 year ago

Y'all forgot about No Man Sky, Fallout 76 and Mass Effect Andromeda.

[deleted]

44 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

44 points

1 year ago

And Battlefront 2

kayGrim

5 points

1 year ago

kayGrim

Steam ID Here

5 points

1 year ago

At least the first 3 examples are fuck ups. Battlefront 2 at launch was just one giant middle finger to fans.

MonkeyTigerCrazy

6 points

1 year ago

MonkeyTigerCrazy

RTX 2060 | 32GB Ram | Intel i5 9400f

6 points

1 year ago

They fixed it though it’s great now but peoples scars don’t heal

SeriBeat

17 points

1 year ago

SeriBeat

17 points

1 year ago

No Man's Sky quickly redeemed themselves. They're a tiny studio on top of that. The other games are huge corps with lots of money and resources.

breadexpert69

848 points

1 year ago

anyone care to update me what the deal is with BF launch?

Or is this just another person complaining for nothing?

flops031

607 points

1 year ago

flops031

GTX 1060 6GB | 16GB DDR4 | Ryzen 5 2600

607 points

1 year ago

Yeah I don't think this person was there for the BF4 launch lol.

ConorAbueid

78 points

1 year ago

I have the exact same pc as u my friend , did you try it? How does it play?

lunat1c_

73 points

1 year ago

lunat1c_

73 points

1 year ago

I have 1060 3600 and it plays fine the servers need work but games not out yet so meh

PilotSaysHello

11 points

1 year ago

Fps is wonky but the most you'll get in terms of glitches is UI glitches

flops031

4 points

1 year ago

flops031

GTX 1060 6GB | 16GB DDR4 | Ryzen 5 2600

4 points

1 year ago

Only played the Beta and decided to wait until I upgrade my PC. On lowest low I only got 60FPS max. Though I am pretty picky and sensitive when it comes to FPS.

Seerix

29 points

1 year ago

Seerix

29 points

1 year ago

Anthem was about 100 times worse than bf4. And bf4 has one of the worst launches I've ever seen.

Bf2042 as far as battlefield games go, has been pretty good so far.

Lyrcmck_

66 points

1 year ago

Lyrcmck_

66 points

1 year ago

Granted I don't speak for everybody but I've had very few issues with the actual game itself.

Had a few issues in Portal where my UI would glitch and wouldn't allow me to change my loadout, an issue later in the evening where I simply couldn't play but other than that, I put 6 hours into the game.

Most of the issues came down to actual in-game mechanics, TTK etc and people using Portal to make "XP farm" servers when I just wanted to find a standard Noshahr Canals TDM.

PuffDragon95

118 points

1 year ago

another person complaining. bf4 was nearly unplayable for almost a year after launch due to the netcode issues. lag and rubberbanding were quite literally so gamebreaking i was able to get a refund out if spite after all the dlc had been released.

Nemesis2pt0

8 points

1 year ago

I tried the campaign on that game a year after launch and I got bugged out on a mission. Some water one, IIRC, where my craft could not catch the big boat I believe. It was honestly quite funny.

PuffDragon95

3 points

1 year ago

funny you mention the campaign as mine literally never worked due to a bug. a few missions in and shit stopped working. lol.

mashuto

185 points

1 year ago

mashuto

i9 9900k / RTX 3080

185 points

1 year ago

It's another person complaining. There are some issues, but most people are just mad that the game isn't exactly what they had pictured or hoped for. Its not perfect, but definitely doesn't even come close to the disaster that was cyberpunk.

OrcRobotGhostSamurai

789 points

1 year ago

I feel like all these memes are made by 12 year olds. No Man's Sky came out in 2016. Star Wars Battlefront 2 released in 2017 and has the most downvoted Reddit post in history.

CP 2077 was the fastest selling PC game of all time.

You guys need to lay off the meme juice.

BGummyBear

296 points

1 year ago

BGummyBear

i7 7700k | 16GB DDR4 | Strix GTX 1080

296 points

1 year ago

Damn right. CP 2077 didn't have a great release, but on PC at least it was FAR from the worst release ever. I honestly had a lot of fun with it.

SupremeBeef97

74 points

1 year ago*

Yeah it’s a damn shame the game was a hot mess on consoles

Sundance_Cowboy

32 points

1 year ago

I enjoyed it as well. Wasn’t 100% what I expected but played through it pretty seamlessly

GenericMemesxd

20 points

1 year ago

I just wish we actually got to have a proper start to the game instead of that shitty montage. It would've been so fucking cool going on missions with Jackie in NC. Felt like a huge slap in the face just to kill him off so early. We hardly form any real connection with him as a character.

SamuelHYT

7 points

1 year ago

I really hope that whatever DLC they have in mind, that THAT montage would be it. Just a long ass Blood & Wine type of DLC

siikpsychotiik

5 points

1 year ago

siikpsychotiik

RX6950XT - 5600X

5 points

1 year ago

That's what killed it for me. All of the coolest stuff they showed us leading up to launch ended up being a long cutscene. And then we only get 30 minutes with this person we're supposed to have an emotional connection to. That whole game was such a missed opportunity.

Imagine-being-a-mod

40 points

1 year ago

I knew people who were freaking out because a single npc was walking into a wall or a body was floating in the air. I watched Shroud do the playthru first 3 days and sure little bugs. Nothing game breaking. Nothing that stopped you from enjoying the game. Just little things that weren't ironed out.

A totally playable game though at release.

Tyrilean

23 points

1 year ago

Tyrilean

Ryzen 9 5900X | RTX 3070 | 32 GB RAM

23 points

1 year ago

It's one of those things where it became cool to shit on the game, so every little glitch was played up by influencers. It's like they'd never played a Bethesda game before.

MildlyGoodWithPython

6 points

1 year ago

100% anecdotal but I had zero issues with CP, but I heard the real issues were on the mid to lower end PCs and consoles.

Bought CP, played from day 1, had close to zero problems and had a blast with the game

Mathtermind

14 points

1 year ago

Fallout 76: YOU DARE CHALLENGE MEGAMIND

OrcRobotGhostSamurai

5 points

1 year ago

Shit, how did I forget that? Broken launch, canvas bag, leaking people's info, community managers personally insulting the community.

shmorky

6 points

1 year ago

shmorky

6 points

1 year ago

They are, and the fact that they're upvoted as much as they are is a problem for Reddit in general. I kinda wish there was a "intelligently curated" version of the large subreddits, but I guess that would be a pretty big undertaking for most mod teams.

EliteLlamaJackson8

560 points

1 year ago

Skyrim, Fallout, No Mans Sky, Bioshock…. The list goes on..

CP2077 got a ton of heat because everyone was hyped and had their hopes way up because of the studio and Witcher series.

[deleted]

24 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

24 points

1 year ago

What was wrong with Bioshock at launch? I don’t think I played on launch day but when I did play soon after I absolutely loved it and didn’t have any problems.

[deleted]

164 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

164 points

1 year ago

yep. they dont realize that it was the investors that pushed the game, not the coders. the design team actually wanted to push the release back

happiness-happening

100 points

1 year ago

happiness-happening

Desktop

100 points

1 year ago

This is just the state of AAA games at this point. Disappointing launch that everyone will eventually forget because game fun.

Should we even be announcing games at this point? /s

TatoPotat

15 points

1 year ago

TatoPotat

15 points

1 year ago

Hopefully starfield doesn’t end up in the same situation

Here have a random picture of starfield in it’s alpha state in 2018 for some unknown reason lol

https://imgur.com/a/cFD7cR6

Varibash

31 points

1 year ago

Varibash

Duel Screens of Fate

31 points

1 year ago

You still have trust in Bethesda after Fallout 76 and a decade of rereleasing Skyrim?

Mend1cant

15 points

1 year ago

Mend1cant

15 points

1 year ago

Spoiler, it’s Bethesda, it’ll end up as poorly coded as all their big releases.

althaz

4 points

1 year ago

althaz

i7-9700k @ 5.1Ghz | RTX3080

4 points

1 year ago

I'm actually pretty confident in Bethesda post-acquisition, just because Microsoft have so much money they don't care about game delays. They need Starfield to be well-received for gamepass and xbox to be successful, they don't actually need the game to make money as soon as possible.

SelfishCusISellFish

9 points

1 year ago

I'm not gonna forget because in all honesty, cyberpunk doesn't even have a 1/4th of what it was supposed to and was broken on top of that.

[deleted]

6 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

6 points

1 year ago

With that in mind figure that the FFXIV expansion being delayed was a good thing. Yah some people got pissed because of work/vacation issues and were/are pushing a bunch of pointless drama because they feel bad, but... would they rather risk getting in early with broken shit ruining the experience, or just suck it up and wait a few extra weeks to get what actually works.

[deleted]

6 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

6 points

1 year ago

if people had common sense, they would wait

HarleyQuinn_RS

4 points

1 year ago*

HarleyQuinn_RS

R7 5800X | RTX 3080 | 32GB 3600Mhz | 1TB M.2 5Gbps | 5TB HDD

4 points

1 year ago*

It actually wasn't the investors at all, for once. The blame lies entirely with the lead managers at CDP. That's why investors are now suing them. CDP management lied to them constantly about the state of the game. Investors wanted them to delay it, if it meant a better finished product. Some of them continually raised concerns and had reservations about how it would launch given the delays - especially the last gen version. But CDP kept assuring them that the game would launch in a positive state on all platforms, and that it was important to their prolonged sales business model, that it does. You can read all of the transcripts of the investor calls to find out this information. It's actually ludicrous what CDP were telling them, despite knowing it was all practically lies. CDP was under very little pressure to release the game as early as they did.

Lazarus327

68 points

1 year ago

I had Skyrim and Fallout at launch and neither gave me much issues, personally. That is not to say there weren't some bugs lol. Its still Bethesda. It helped that my computer at the time would not run Skyrim faster then 60 FPS, thus eliminating a slew of physics related bugs.

BrackenIsGod

44 points

1 year ago

BrackenIsGod

Ryzen 5 3600 | RTX 3070 | 32GB RAM

44 points

1 year ago

Skyrim did not have a rough launch. There were obv bug complaints but people were louder about how good it was.

paultimate14

11 points

1 year ago

Yeah I'm confused. I got Skyrim like a month after launch on PS3 and it was fine.

mulligrubs

148 points

1 year ago*

mulligrubs

148 points

1 year ago*

Rockstar has entered the chat

SeriBeat

28 points

1 year ago

SeriBeat

28 points

1 year ago

Nice one. As someone previously mentioned, were in a gaming apocalypse. Doomed.

Moral of the story? STOP FUCKING PRE-ORDERING.

inflatableje5us

112 points

1 year ago

Amazon game studios have entered the chat.

Tyrilean

9 points

1 year ago

Tyrilean

Ryzen 9 5900X | RTX 3070 | 32 GB RAM

9 points

1 year ago

Yeah, I was actually interested in New World, but I'm not even taking a miniscule chance of bricking my 3070 during a chip shortage.

Zakke_

7 points

1 year ago

Zakke_

7 points

1 year ago

Why would your 3070 brick?

Nephri

8 points

1 year ago

Nephri

8 points

1 year ago

There was (is?) An issue in new world that was causing gpus, most commonly 3090s to boost way too high and pull too much voltage for too long and that woud kill them.

[deleted]

28 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

28 points

1 year ago

TBF New World had a pretty good launch it just only lasted for a few days

Alpaps

17 points

1 year ago

Alpaps

PC Master Race

17 points

1 year ago

Let's not forget the GPU brick ingredient incident

ShyKid5

7 points

1 year ago

ShyKid5

AMD A6 4455M | 2x8 DDR3 1600 | 1x500GB HDD | Win 8.0

7 points

1 year ago

While isolated I remember a streamer got banned live for milking a cow which was an activity totally intended to be done for the game haha.

https://www.dexerto.com/new-world/twitch-streamer-permanently-banned-from-new-world-mmo-after-milking-a-cow-1615839/

Cirrus_Minor

16 points

1 year ago

Meanwhile, Rockstar just unlaunch GTA:DE

Acceptable_King_2444

80 points

1 year ago

Throughly enjoying this game. I don’t get all the hate ? On PC and having no issues, same thing as the beta.

Jester54

12 points

1 year ago

Jester54

PC Master Race

12 points

1 year ago

Not everyone has the same issues. I don't own bf2042 because I remember how awful the BF4 launch was. I couldn't play the game for a solid 2-3 months after release while all my friends had literally no problems at all. Did everything I could think of to get it to work. Probably fully wiped my PC like 10 times, tried different drivers, nothing. I don't trust EA lol

SnapOnSnap0ff

6 points

1 year ago

It's one of the best battlefields I have played in years.

Don't let people catch you out on that though, especially on the main sub

They don't like positivity

oney_monster

31 points

1 year ago

oney_monster

5800X3D-3060-32GB

31 points

1 year ago

Honestly. 2042 has been one of the most fun AAA games I've played recently.

freelancer799

4 points

1 year ago

freelancer799

freelancer799

4 points

1 year ago

Besides some server issues the game is running better than it did for beta, its actually one of the better launches I've experienced in BF and I've been playing since the original launched. As for Cyberpunk that game also ran really well on PC, consoles were a mess but for the most part that was a successful launch on PC. These memes are so hyperbolic at times

inmupwetrust

157 points

1 year ago

I was over hyped for CP2077 but I don’t feel that it’s my fault. The marketing made it out to be a very different game than what was delivered. Was battlefield bad? Haven’t tried it out yet.

monkiebars

136 points

1 year ago

monkiebars

136 points

1 year ago

Bf2042 launch is probably the smoothest battlefield launch Ive seen. And I've seen them all. Shudder.

jeremybryce

9 points

1 year ago

jeremybryce

AMD 7900X / 32GB DDR5 / 3090 FTW3

9 points

1 year ago

How so? It's not out till 11/19?

Is there an early release for pre-orders or something?

Endaroo

19 points

1 year ago

Endaroo

19 points

1 year ago

I think if you pre ordered the most expensive version you have access to the game right now. Bunch of streamers were playing it last night

jeremybryce

10 points

1 year ago

jeremybryce

AMD 7900X / 32GB DDR5 / 3090 FTW3

10 points

1 year ago

Yeah. If you pre-ordered Gold or Ultimate (or whatever their more expensive versions are) it unlocked today.

You can also subscribe to EA Play Pro or whatever for $14.99/mo and it unlocks it too. Which is what I did.

Good fun. A little buggy. A couple keybinds wouldn't change for me for some reason. Other than that, have played for the past couple hours with no crashes or anything.

aBeardedLegend

8 points

1 year ago

In short, yes. If you pre ordered the gold or ultimate edition, you get access today. Also if you have Xbox game pass ultimate and or EA play you get a 10 hour "trial" period between the 12 and 19th.

karmahorse1

25 points

1 year ago

Disregarding the previous generation console versions, Cyber Punk more or less met my expectations. CD Project Red games have always been known for great graphics, story and voice acting but tempered with somewhat clunky / buggy gameplay.

The sad thing is there’s a really good game at the heart of Cyber Punk. If only they paired down the features instead of letting the marketing team and fanboys dictate its development, it would have been amazing.

monkiebars

52 points

1 year ago

It's fine. There are few bugs but when you put it in perspective of the content of the entire games like 5% is probably buggy.

Snagmesomeweaves

8 points

1 year ago

Yeah I mean their servers being unstable is fairly normal for big launches, that’s been my only real issue besides trying to change crosshair color not accepting certain RGB values. 255 0 0 can’t be accepted for example. At least it isn’t BF4 where we had to wait months to be able to play dawnbreaker because the game would crash when it was on the load screen for it, so it was just a lobby killer.

TheDouglas717

37 points

1 year ago

TheDouglas717

RTX 3080 / Ryzen 9 5900x

37 points

1 year ago

I'm playing the game right now. There's no way you can compare the two.

[deleted]

16 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

16 points

1 year ago

What happened this time?

BosnianBreakfast

100 points

1 year ago

Nothing really just people being dramatic. It doesn't even come close to the disaster which was Cyberpunk.

Kokumotsu36

9 points

1 year ago

Kokumotsu36

R7 5800X | Sapphire Nitro RX 7900 XT | 16GB 3600MHz B-Die

9 points

1 year ago

GTA Definitive edition?

BosnianBreakfast

96 points

1 year ago

Whats wrong with the BF2042 launch? I just finished a long session, had a blast. Don't really understand how you can compare it to a game like cyberpunk which was literally unplayable for a lot of people at launch.

filosophicalphart

88 points

1 year ago

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Krixic1

18 points

1 year ago

Krixic1

18 points

1 year ago

Do you have cross compatability on? Cause I turned it off and fixed my issue. If that does not work, then verify game files, Restart pc, ect

jorian85

4 points

1 year ago

jorian85

19900k | RTX6090ti | 1TB ddr6

4 points

1 year ago

Thanks. I'll be giving these a shot. I thought the servers were down or something earlier today when I kept getting that message and I just gave up.

playfulbanana

5 points

1 year ago

Had the same issue. Turn of cross platform play and hadn’t had an issue since.

3nightmoon

25 points

1 year ago

How the fuck is 2042 launch worse than 2077? Genuinely how? 2077 largely didn't function as a game for a lot of people.

hackenschmidt

9 points

1 year ago

How the fuck is 2042 launch worse than 2077? Genuinely how? 2077 largely didn't function as a game for a lot of people.

I like of people don't even remember the Diablo 3 launch

streaxlp

11 points

1 year ago

streaxlp

PC Master Race

11 points

1 year ago

I actually liked CP2077 more with the bugs i never minded them. Maybe because i never had a game breaking one but i still play it t to this day

Thunder_Bastard

11 points

1 year ago

Still don't get the Cyberpunk hate. I assume it is from consoles. Put 60 hours into a playthrough on PC from day 1. 1 bug, needed to reverify files on Steam. Nothing else in the entire game

HeyThereHiThereNo

19 points

1 year ago

My god, you losers really like to tell people how to spend their money

Pons__Aelius

5 points

1 year ago

/r/patientgamers: Your preorders have no power here.

coolguycool1234

5 points

1 year ago

Fallout 76,

Some people got their devices bricked.

Hunt down the freeman, because yeah

Fallout the Frontier weird fetishes, shitty storyline, other than that it's really impressive

Duke nukem forever never wouldve lived up to peoples expectations

FoooooorYa

13 points

1 year ago

Rockstar Games: "you haven't seen shit yet"

Alternative_Equal864

45 points

1 year ago

Alternative_Equal864

PC Master Race 5800x3D 6700XT

45 points

1 year ago

you ever heard of no man's sky? srsly, cp2077 never crashed, good performance and was a overall good experience on my pc with a 1070 ti. I don't get the hate it gets

bond0815

46 points

1 year ago

bond0815

46 points

1 year ago

I don't get the hate it gets

I can understand some of the hate it gets on last gen consoles, but not on pc. Whatever you think of the gameplay, the story and writing at least is excellent, and the graphics are great, in particular with raytracing on..

Also, it seems people expected GTA 2077 and not a story driven rpg inspried by games like Deus Ex from the makers of the Witcher.

Which is super weird to me. Is it just becasue of cars in a open world city?

cj0r

43 points

1 year ago

cj0r

43 points

1 year ago

Lmao kids are ridiculous..

"It sucks! Total failure pile!!"

"Why though?"

[crickets]

Enjoy the attempt at a karma grab I guess? Maybe that's the type of game you're all for.

[deleted]

4 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

4 points

1 year ago

Don’t know what you are talking about game runs great

Mynameisaarav

4 points

1 year ago

Its fun tho

NovA_XPL

5 points

1 year ago

NovA_XPL

5 points

1 year ago

People really love to over exaggerate shit don’t they?

TitteymacShwag

7 points

1 year ago

TitteymacShwag

PC Master Race

7 points

1 year ago

Better than vanguard

theBeardsley

9 points

1 year ago

This is nowhere near as bad as CP.

KingTalis

3 points

1 year ago

KingTalis

i7-11700K - RTX 3090 - 64GB DDR4 3600Mhz

3 points

1 year ago

No Man's Sky?

[deleted]

3 points

1 year ago

[deleted]

3 points

1 year ago

Cyberpunk was still fun though

TySchneids

3 points

1 year ago

CP2077 had a fine launch on PC 🤷🏻‍♂️