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Finish Games Before Releasing
Cordova, TN; June 18, in the year of our Lord 2018
-- Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the
family friendly video games is imparting a strong opinion we
have heard from a great many readers. To be blunt we have this
same opinion ourselves. We have mentioned in before in other
columns and of course in videos on our website and Youtube
channel. We are sick and tired of unfinished video games being
released. We are sick and tired of being unpaid Quality Control
Analysts for these companies. Finish your games before you
release them. How hard is that? Do you agree? Do you disagree?
Do you like playing half finished video games? Do you enjoy
working for them for free to tell them what is wrong with their
games? Or do you feel you should be fairly compensated for that
work?
I am tired of constantly hearing some game is in alpha, or beta.
Finish your game and then release it. I am tired of finding bugs
in games that crash them. I am tired of people in PR and
Marketing expecting me to find their bugs and report them. Ya’ll
are not paying me for that work, so I won’t do it. I am sick of
games coming out with only a few levels or characters, only to
find out paid DLC will come out in months with the rest of the
game. I am sick of all these press releases from companies
talking about how they are releasing updates to fix problems in
their games. You should have gotten that fixed before releasing
it to the public. I know this is a pretty strong opinion. I also
know there are plenty of families and gamers that completely
agree with it.
I have no problem with a company coming up with an idea and
releasing an update with that idea. I do not like it when a
company is in the middle of development and release a game too
soon planning on having updates and fixes later. I am sick of
the Agile programming methodology in video games where a game is
never finished. They constantly tweak things to make them
different. This is one of the reasons I prefer offline, retro
video games. I can play them as they were created. The game
developers and game publishers finished their video games before
releasing them. They properly tested games before releasing them
to the public. They cared about the quality of their work
because there was no going back and changing things. This is
another part of the swamp that needs to be drained in video
games.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming
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