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Satire, or Truth- You Decide

(PC: Single-Player RPG) | Posted by corwin @ Wednesday - June 15, 2005 - 12:41 -
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Over at the Mount and Blade Forums you'll find a very thought provoking piece of satire on game development by RPGDot regular Badger. In light of some recent game releases, it's eerily accurate. Is it Truth, or Fiction? You'll have to decide by reading the entire article, but here's a taste:

3/ Releasing an Unfinished Title.

Here at least we felt initially that you were on solid ground.
Releasing unfinished games is nowadays of course a staple of the industry, but on closer inspection we discover that once again you have taken something beautiful and twisted it into something ugly.

Not only is your “beta” code more stable and considerably more bug free than many full priced retail releases, but it also boasts one of the best “mounted combat” models that we have seen. What on earth are you thinking?!!!

In stating up front that your game is “unfinished” and then offering a FREE TRIAL before charging a pittance for the full version, you seem to have completely misunderstood the point of and advantages to releasing an unfinished game. Namely that there is no earthly reason to waste expensive development time in a fruitless struggle to complete a game, when you have a mass of waiting proletariat, eager to accept it in whatever form you see fit to deposit it upon them and then to act as unpaid play testers. This product is not pitched at a reduced price but rather shipped at full retail!
 
 
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