Game Breaking Bugs, Early Access Games and Other Gaming Grievances
Lately I've been playing Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, I reached the end of the game until a game breaking bug stopped my progress completely, before reaching that point I've come across a lot of other bugs, but this latest one plainly corrupted my save.
Clearly an unfinished game that showed a lot of promise since it was announced 2 years ago and promised very different Lovecraftian experience, but it ended just like another failed gaming project. It should get patched but I highly doubt it they will stick with the game, damage is already done.
Sometimes I can deal with in game bugs, 2 of my favorite games Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and Arcanum were buggy as hell, but that didn't stop me from enjoying those games for multiple playthroughs. I was younger back then, it was a small issue, today I'm getting very annoyed with buggy games.
Bugs were here since the beginning of time, they will be here until the end of time. But we don't need to keep on paying for those products, when do we draw the line and say enough is enough, I wish devs and publishers would just stop releasing broken games until they are absolutely sure there are no game breaking bugs inside. Judging by the state of the industry today that will never happen.
Early Access games is another scam that became part of the norm lately. I've been suckered into purchasing few of those, I learned my lesson and abandoned the practice soon after. Inquisitor: Martyr was such a game, it was in Early Access for few years, still feels unfinished with one expansion released, but it is getting there lol.
2nd example Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem I can compare to poking your eyes out with a hammer, forever in development (since 2012), constant delays and changes of core systems are happening daily, it is releasing in January 2020 they say with missing chapters. It can be said with 100% certainty that players who bought that early access game were scammed big time.
I almost broke down and bought Star Citizen early access where server wipes, engine troubles, bad optimization is the state of the game right now, playing that forever in development game would be nuts, good thing I stopped with that insane idea.
I'll be playing only finished games from now on, it makes no sense to torture myself with that pain. What are your experiences with Early Access games, game breaking bugs and such?