God, I am so sick of this stupid, gamers going"Where's my fukkin game bitch", brainless moaning.
Game development
is difficult. It's hard enough writing a book and that's just words. With coding, everything can go very wrong very fast and if your game is bugged heavily it can have a really bad outlook on your game, thus meaning that bug-detection is just as important as feature-adding and making the game look good. However, gamers seem to think that game development has three stages that all take place within a few weeks. First, vague idea. Second, pre-alpha demo. Third, finished and polished game with plenty of features. If a game doesn't follow this plan, it is an utter failure and needs to be canned.
This happens a lot with kickstarters, but let's use a different example: DayZ Standalone, the full-game version of the famous mod. They had to delay to make sure that their network wouldn't be compromised by hacking. This is annoying, but it is pretty necessary for an MMO: getting headshotted by a hacker who spawned in a sniper rifle and a lot of ammo the moment you step into a town is not good gameplay. However, on the comments for an article showing a video of alpha Day Z (Which I must say, looked pretty good: combat looked suitably panicked, zombies acted like zombies, and the interface just looks swell), it is a sign of the end times and a thing Allow me to quote.
Rocket Dumbass Dean (the head of the development team) should have been fired ASAP and Bohemia (The publisher) should have handed this off to a real developer months ago. Dean has made every mistake in the book and totally blown a golden opportunity of a lifetime.
This DayZ mod thing went to his head and boy did it explode big-time. I'd call it George Lucas syndrome. Take the motion capture video for example, Dean dons the suit himself after the people that actually know wtf they're doing didn't do it like Dean wanted. What a "Lucas" move.
DayZ: Great game idea. DayZ Stand Alone: Text book what not to do in game dev.
So sad this game was handled by Dean, could have been great, now it's just another too little too late opportunity missed.
For those who don't want to read, he's complaining about the fact that the developer wanted to don the motion-capture suit himself. For a publicity video, I believe. You may panic now.
Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the smashing of the wall between developer and gamer is a great thing, but the entitlement level of gamers (Which was already through the roof) has skyrocketed. I think I'm just going to stop considering myself a gamer and more like a fellow who plays games, because this happens way more then it should.