That's true. I suppose it's good to have at least a few relatively loud voices with broad reach like Angry Joe willing to waste their money and potentially get burned on a game, then rant about it to everyone else so that they don't have to do the same.
Of course, the companies seem to be starting to find nefarious ways around even that sort of thing.
First, such as here, where they just up and decide to basically drop support for the PC version... after Angry Joe and others like him have bought it and praised it, fully expecting that it would, of course, continue to receive support like the console versions (which Joe says they actually claimed they would do, but now aren't). For the probably lots of people (Joe estimates at least half a million) who went ahead and bought the PC version on Joe's say so, among whatever other reasons, I guess all those people are just shit out of luck at this point.
Second, there's the thing where they straight up did that bait and switch bullshit (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/122633.html) on him, where they apparently gave him review code that did something slightly less egregiously terrible than what the final released game itself ended up doing. As such, when Joe talks up the game beforehand based on a lie like that, that too will cause people to run out and buy it (though Joe himself, at least, tore them a new asshole over that shit in his actual review video, and rightfully so [and yet, an estimated half a million people still bought it {EDIT} Though that estimate was only for the PC version, and I have no clue how many console units were sold {/EDIT}]).
Also, isn't it rather interesting how this post here and your previous post I linked to there both deal with bullshit that WB Games/Netherrealm has done with this Mortal Kombat X game? Funny, that. ¬_¬
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Of course, the companies seem to be starting to find nefarious ways around even that sort of thing.
First, such as here, where they just up and decide to basically drop support for the PC version... after Angry Joe and others like him have bought it and praised it, fully expecting that it would, of course, continue to receive support like the console versions (which Joe says they actually claimed they would do, but now aren't). For the probably lots of people (Joe estimates at least half a million) who went ahead and bought the PC version on Joe's say so, among whatever other reasons, I guess all those people are just shit out of luck at this point.
Second, there's the thing where they straight up did that bait and switch bullshit (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/122633.html) on him, where they apparently gave him review code that did something slightly less egregiously terrible than what the final released game itself ended up doing. As such, when Joe talks up the game beforehand based on a lie like that, that too will cause people to run out and buy it (though Joe himself, at least, tore them a new asshole over that shit in his actual review video, and rightfully so [and yet, an estimated half a million people still bought it {EDIT} Though that estimate was only for the PC version, and I have no clue how many console units were sold {/EDIT}]).
Also, isn't it rather interesting how this post here and your previous post I linked to there both deal with bullshit that WB Games/Netherrealm has done with this Mortal Kombat X game? Funny, that. ¬_¬