Yeah, nobody says a delayed game is automatically good. They say a game that’s delayed in order to make improvements has a better chance of being good than a game that’s rushed out regardless of the bugs and issues it has.
The trick lately has been to delay broken games to give the appearance that they are going to be finished on release. And then release broken, unfinished garbage anyway.
i can tell you rn Halo could have used another 1 year delay. two 6 month seasons with barely any content and missing basic content, bugs and server issues
“A delayed game is eventually good, but for the love of God and all that is holy, don’t set unrealistic release dates or announce a game 5 years before release.”
– Shigeru Miyamoto
Even if a bad game gets updated post-launch to make it better, its reputation is already tarnished. I’ve heard Cyberpunk is actually good now that they’ve pushed out some updates to fix major bugs, but people still claim it’s a massive failure. The exception might be No Man’s Sky, but I had never actually heard anything negative until after the recent update that apparently improved it tenfold
what the quote means is that delaying a game to fix its flaws is worth it for the end product, in most cases this is correct (botw, doom eternal, tf2, halo infinite) and in other cases, it isn’t worth it (duke nukem forever)
People really don’t get the quote? The quote doesn’t say “All delayed games are good”, the quote is literally just meant to say “Take your time if you have to, if you rush a game out the window, the negative impact could last longer than the negative impact of delaying it.”
Just as wretched: thanks to the people who brainwashed themselves into praising(?!?!?!) No Man’s Sky in recent years, the “No Man’s Sky strategy” is now the default one for video games: LIE about what the game is about and includes on launch, then trickle out ~50% of what’s promised over YEARS.
Therefore, publishers have no incentive whatsoever to tell buyers the truth about anything before release or for up to a year following it.
The bigger problem is announcing release dates that are far too optimistic/too early into development and setting deadlines that are impossible without large amounts of crunch.
“Often I’ll see advertisements for porn games and they say, ‘Try Not To Cum,’ but then when you play the game, it seems like the object is to cum. So yes, I would call that bad game design.”
Yeah, nobody says a delayed game is automatically good. They say a game that’s delayed in order to make improvements has a better chance of being good than a game that’s rushed out regardless of the bugs and issues it has.
Lmao
If we can actually get his actual take on this, it would make it 100% more priceless….
Pre-orders need to stop. Gamers should hold companies to releasing finished products that run as promised in advertising.
Pre-orders are a safetynet and they breed poor releases.
Delays are never something a company wants to do. Every delay costs them money. Big money.
Yeah I’m pretty sure no one thought his quote meant that. Just you.
The trick lately has been to delay broken games to give the appearance that they are going to be finished on release. And then release broken, unfinished garbage anyway.
Releasing bad games to patch them up later is one of the worst trends in gaming. A bad first impression has ruined many games
this is fucking awesome!
i can tell you rn Halo could have used another 1 year delay. two 6 month seasons with barely any content and missing basic content, bugs and server issues
STOP FUCKING POSTING THIS FAKE QUOTE EVERYTIME A GAME GETS DELAYED
Hey it was my turn to repost this!
Also, Miyamoto has put out his fair share of stinkers, so can we stop considering him to be the arbiter of gaming.
Op you seem to misunderstand the quote
“A delayed game is eventually good, but for the love of God and all that is holy, don’t set unrealistic release dates or announce a game 5 years before release.”
– Shigeru Miyamoto
Is it really even a game at all?
No, but a rushed game is often shit
*”Don’t believe every quote you see on the Internet, just because it’s attributed to some famous figure.”* ~Atilla the Hun
This guy fucks!
With this in mind, I propose the following change:
“A delayed game may eventually be good. A rushed game is forever bad.”
What’s the quote this is referencing?
Even if a bad game gets updated post-launch to make it better, its reputation is already tarnished. I’ve heard Cyberpunk is actually good now that they’ve pushed out some updates to fix major bugs, but people still claim it’s a massive failure. The exception might be No Man’s Sky, but I had never actually heard anything negative until after the recent update that apparently improved it tenfold
Cyberpunk 2077 for example.
the problem with quotes is they rarely come with context
If a delayed game is bad, the rushed version of the same game would probably be worse.
This post is a giant cope from someone with pre-order addiction.
Stop. Just stop.
what the quote means is that delaying a game to fix its flaws is worth it for the end product, in most cases this is correct (botw, doom eternal, tf2, halo infinite) and in other cases, it isn’t worth it (duke nukem forever)
sure but a rushed game is rarely good at launch.
People really don’t get the quote? The quote doesn’t say “All delayed games are good”, the quote is literally just meant to say “Take your time if you have to, if you rush a game out the window, the negative impact could last longer than the negative impact of delaying it.”
Because as we all know, it’s ok to release broken games because they will just fix it later… probably.
This fucking shit gets posted every fucking day here. Stop posting shit everyone has seen a billlllion times.
Duke Nukem Forever
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Just as wretched: thanks to the people who brainwashed themselves into praising(?!?!?!) No Man’s Sky in recent years, the “No Man’s Sky strategy” is now the default one for video games: LIE about what the game is about and includes on launch, then trickle out ~50% of what’s promised over YEARS.
Therefore, publishers have no incentive whatsoever to tell buyers the truth about anything before release or for up to a year following it.
The bigger problem is announcing release dates that are far too optimistic/too early into development and setting deadlines that are impossible without large amounts of crunch.
It is certainly the preferable alternative to putting out an incomplete one
“Often I’ll see advertisements for porn games and they say, ‘Try Not To Cum,’ but then when you play the game, it seems like the object is to cum. So yes, I would call that bad game design.”
-Shigeru Miyamoto
https://i.imgur.com/vWIhBBp.jpg