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Originally Posted by Chivas
Exactly. The users who reviewed the game should have had enough sense to wait for the patches before throwing the developer under the bus.
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It is an utterly ridiculuous proposition to state that a game should not be reviewed until we "wait for the patches". By your logic Il2 would still not be reviewed since it has been patched repeatedly right up until 4.11 and there are still more to come. Or Arma II which is still getting patches, should it have been reviewed when it was released?
It is also a ridiculous notion that somehow it is "our fault" that Cliffs of Dover is not being universaly well received. Somehow the process got swapped on its head. Instead of the publishers and developers being gratefull that we purchased their software, WE the buying public must be gratefull that they ever released it in the first place, no matter what state it is in. We must also be patient and wait for the software to become usable, and while waiting we should lie to others and say it is a sim that deserves 90% as a score? Honestly if I were to recommend CoD to a friend and he tried it we wouldn't be friends very long. Would you be able to live with yourselve the way the OP can even though he is telling other people that CoD is worth 90%.
If someone were to ask you to recommend a good sim that will run well on his two year old PC could you in all conscience recommend Cliffs of Dover? Would you tell him to just fly over the water against three or four aircraft and hope that the developers will "make it better" over the next few years.
If the developers and publishers didn't want "thrown under a bus" for how Cliffs of Dover would be perceived by the "BUYING" public, then they shouldn't have released it in its current state.
P.S. There were plenty of promises made that were not delivered. Oleg and 1C stated many times in various interviews that the AI could not see though clouds... lo and behold, the AI can see through clouds. Right up until the week before the Russian release there were videos showing the SU26, it was cut without so much as a whisper from the devs/publishers. We were told by Luthier and many of his sychophantic fanboys that the sounds were just placeholders, guess what, those shit sounds from the pre-release videos made it into the final version. Don't piss down my back and tell me it is raining.