Ok that's a little message for gaming company...
I think you are getting worse all the time. Now, games are like, I dunno, commercial stuffs and lifeless. There's no more "I programmed my lil software and story and did the music between 2 nights", no, now it's well, we have the engine, now how can we make profits... They fire character designers one after another just like that *snap*, when you send a letter from fan to company, they simply ignore it and say "we can't live only with fans" and this is where you are wrong...
Fans make the company, look at Capcom and others...
Just imagine in 10 years, just even right now, no one know what is Fire Emblem cause they are too young ! So fans have to tell to young it's cool and all, video games are way way too much expensive just to buy and test and sale (like what we did in the past if you remember). Not it's DLC, code for online and all...
Other point they fail... Come on, buy some debuggers and tester please ! We don't want to be beta tester AFTER the game is out, seriously ! Some people here can't connect their PS3 to the net, so just imagine how sad they can be with some games that simply... doesn't work at all ! And you want to be refunded ? No, you can't you open it, you can't, we can only exchange it with another one... PERFECT !
I really miss the old time when they show use previews in magazine and artworks. Just remember FF7, just remember they had to redid almost the whole game ! If FF7 were out now, they would just put the beta and be happy with it ! I had the first FF7 build (in Japanese) with his bag of bugs, the US and European version (as the International) get rid of almost all the glitches... I also had the FF7 beta offered with a game which was cool, can you imagine Square Soft "Enix" doing that right now ????
Gaming company, please, listen to the customers, not their purse and stop thinking about profits *ONLY*, we don't want another Soulcalibur 5 or Street Fighter X Tekken, FINISH YOUR DAMNED GAME AND PUT A LIL DELAY IF YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO FINISH IT DAMMIT AND DON'T SELL DLC IF YOU KNOW THAT THE GAME ISN'T COMPLETE ! It's like having a supermarket selling you bags with having anything to sell inside !
See ya !
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