Think I am going to skip this one, at least for the first few months until there are plenty of user reviews and patches.
You know that would be us. Even if there were 4 of us we all just kneecap each other and no one would escape.
you think everyone (the game companies) would have learned that a company having their own store doesn't really work. Look at Origin.
You mean the thing that's making EA huge amounts of money, where everyone complains but uses it anyway?
I forgot about battlenet too. But that is the only one that really works and people actually like. But I feel like if all the companies have their own store they will end up killing themselves since the consumers will only want 3 at most accounts and screw any other company. Would you want 10 different accounts for games?
Thing is aside from Steam games I keep WoW and absolutely no other games whatsoever up to date, since that's all the bandwidth I can muster. So why the christ would I ever buy even more games I can never actually play without a 48-hour download? Tell you what, Bethesda, you run 10 gigabit fiber to my house and I'll buy every game you release on day one forever and use whatever damn client you want to keep them updated.
Only because they're fucking whores. I actually stopped buying EA games after they dropped support for Steam. Not because of some misplaced loyalty to Steam, but because I couldn't be bothered to care about EA games anymore if they were going to make me keep track of another (shittier) version of Steam. My biggest complaint with Steam is that it can cut into the already limited profit margins of indie games I want to support. If a steam key is available, I try to buy direct and then unlock it on Steam. Not really certain if that means more money for the developer, but I try. I just like Steam because it does the best at what it does in an easy to manage format.
Only preorder if you get a physical item worth the cost of the game (to you) for preordering you're ordering a limited edition that comes with physical items worth the cost of the game (to you) and there is a chance they will not be available after release you don't actually care if the game is any good and you just want to support franchise really shouldn't do that last one.
So.. currently no client side file validation and no network traffic encryption. so take that for what it is. as no network traffic encryption is a big negative for me on ever playing this. hopefully that will change in the future.
TO EVERYONE: I don't want to be overly pessimistic about this, but I would strongly advise waiting on this one until the game gets fixed. I definitely DO NOT recommend buying this at launch. There has been a lot of honest negative beta reviews about this one (and I've heard similar reports to what Hollister said).
Egh. Yeah okay at this point I don't think I'm buying this even if they fix absolutely everything. I liked your games so hope you learn and do... way, way, way, way better next time, Bethesda.
And the hits keep coming... I can't imagine how this game has any future at this point. The reception for this game somehow feels worse than No Man's Sky on release. Maybe because this was such a departure from what people wanted in an established franchise. Also, an $18 "micro-transaction" for a fucking (boring) in-game armor paint job is just insanely greedy.
