DrunkenSano
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it's about being savvy to the general negative industry trend of trying to get people into the habit of making an endless unthinking string of uninformed purchase decisions (pre-orders) vs informed purchase decisions (wait for reviews). Out of all the possible entertainment products, PC games are by far the one with the consistently worst technical quality control issues (by a very large margin), and it's generally a bad idea to feed the BS machine even more as it encourages further negative behaviour by publishers in future. If publishers get paid only after they release a working game, that acts as a financial incentive to actually polish the game a bit better for launch day, which has a positive impact on everyone whether they pre-order or not.
Steam has over 11 thousand reviews and most of them are negative.
Hopefully they can WOW us on release day, but I went ahead and cancelled my Collectors Edition from Amazon. I dont need the little statue that badly to put up with a game I might not enjoy.
Is the game even out yet?
Is the game even out yet?
I might pick it up soon after it's out but I agree, I'm only interested in the single player myself. While I don't play that type of multiplayer FPS (I guess I call it "competitive") anymore, I am interested in another competitive FPS (Battalion 1944) so it isn't just that. But I'm weird, cause I really liked Doom 3 single player, lol.Will wait until it's under $20, will only be playing campaign. Multiplayer looks retarded.
Am I the only person that enjoyed the multiplayer beta? I only played TDM as I could never get a warpath session to matchmake. It felt like old school Doom2 DM mixed with similar to Q3A style maps. I thought it was a blast. Give me a rocket launcher, a shotgun, camp the armor and power up spawns and kill everyone.
I'm hoping for a 20% off coupon closer to release... hope springs eternal for me and this game.
Steam has over 11 thousand reviews and most of them are negative.
Hopefully they can WOW us on release day, but I went ahead and cancelled my Collectors Edition from Amazon. I dont need the little statue that badly to put up with a game I might not enjoy.
I enjoyed it too. I thought it was fun in a way multiplayer hadn't been fun since UT'99/Quake3.
I probably won't play much of the MP once it hits retail though, I'm buying it 99% for the campaign. And the statue.
That, and gamers are notoriously a bunch of whiny bitches. I'd take those reviews with a dumptruck full of salt.This is about par for the course in terms of steam reviews for an unreleased game. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it.
That, and gamers are notoriously a bunch of whiny bitches.