Zeriel
Arcane
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2012
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It's just so obvious that this is the kind of build you would see as an internal tester, only for god knows what reason they decided to throw it into the public and call it a finished game.
The reason was a covid induced market opportunity, people are sitting in homes with nothing better to do but play games and there was zero competeing AAA open world releases.
So decision was made a half year ago to slice, dice and put together with a duct tape a release build for this christmass season at all costs.
Yeah I can kind of see why a really dumb person would do this, but what I mean by "god knows what reason" is that it's just a really bad decision. They wiped out more money in stock price than they gained from sales BEFORE refunds started to hit, and the long-term damage to their brand is incalculable. Not to even mention the lawsuits...