Monday, March 18, 2013

News::The Ethics of Releasing a Buggy Game

PixlBit | "Something that has become commonplace in gamings new world is the infamous day one patch. Because development cycles are so incredibly tight games often have to go to the production line in an incomplete state, leaving the developer in a position to complete the bug fixing post-production, but pre-release. In many instances, the day one patch still isnt enough to shore up the various bugs, leaving players with a game that may not even work properly on their machines. This begs the question is it ethical to put a game on the production line thats incomplete?"



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