Give'em a break ? Give ME a break !

Here's a perfect example , I really should have went with my first thoughts and gut instincts, but some friends and even my review side said well get it and see if this game will be any different and well so far I'm not wrong... TDU is exactly as I had predicted they could have used another 2 years to work on this thing... We the gaming community and consumers once again are the BETA testers for the game makers, while they are raking in the bucks and over the next few months all you'll read is how many records this game made in profits this game will continue to falter and suck because of all the flaws, loopholes and server problems. They've had close to 3 years already to make this game workable, usable and good and so far is it ?? And somehow the game makers have so many gamers somehow brainwashed that their jobs are so hard and impossible to make good games it must be like putting a person on another planet because now we see all these people just begging and pleading for fixes, updates and patches for their precious games, then when they let out the slightest hint of a fix, or an update all the gamers are at a gasp at the MIRACLES the game makers must have pulled off at the countless days, and sleepless nights and wee hours just to put out this patch for them... When in fact had they made the game correctly and tested it properly right from the word go this wouldn't have happend in the first place, then we hear all the peeps saying well the game makers "never anticipated" this many people buying the game so they never had all "these servers" setup for these hits and so on and so on...please... And how long would that have taken the game makers to do proper research or market testing to have figure that out ? This ISN'T rocket science or brain surgery, it's called STOP MAKING EXCUSES !!! If you buy a car or any product for that matter you expect to be able to use it for more then a day or 2 or 3 or even a week before things begin to stop working little by little or BREAKS !!

Are YOU a Beta tester ?

I was just curious because it sure seems as of late that WE all are nowadays, the only difference is that we are paying the gaming world instead of THEM paying US ! It seems that this generation of games are no longer being tested as they once used to. Game companies USED to take a few years to plot, plan, develop then test games THEN release them to the world. But now it seems that they just kind of skip over parts and just release it when it's in playable form and then just fix it later IF EVER. The difference, while game companies have always made money, (don't ever, EVER let anyone tell you anything different because if companies weren't making money there wouldn't BE ANY next gen machines, there wouldn't be any BIG game companies and there wouldn't be any "indi" companies out there like there are) but see if they do it the way they are doing it now they can and do probably increase their profits by about 200-400% now because they used to employ anywhere's from 20-200+ internal testers and now they can cut that down to around a handful if that, more likely because of the state of the industry they can more likely just put ALL the testing into "free" or "learning/educational" programs for kids and college students and pay them small fees then use those as"write-offs" at the end of the year on their taxes and actually MAKE EVEN MORE money... Do you not remember buying a game at a store even a couple of years ago and actually being able to bring it home and PLAYING IT without any or at least extremely minimal problems ?? CAN YOU ?? I most certainly CAN !! And I don't even care for what SYTEM, BRAND, DEVELOPER, or PUBLISHER... Games USED to be made and released NEARLY BULLETPROOF, or at the very least as good as that game maker could.. But now it just seems the mentality in the modern gaming world is if IT even WORKS SHIP IT, why ? Because as long as it's even slightly playable WE (the game makers) can put a spin on it and with the correct marketing (within print, ads tv commercials, trailers, internet etc.) WE can sell anything.. And the sad truth is most times THEY DO !!