Cute, Taemien.
Conan Exiles, the Conan Exiles I pledged to in Early Access and bought when it came out is exactly the game I want to play. I want to play the game I was sold. That’s why I installed it to play it.
You are right in your suggestion that it’s all me, though. My buddy tells me I’m wrong for this too. I guess I got spoiled growing up in a time when developers wrote their work in stone with confidence. There were no “major updates” or “hotfixes” to NES or SNES cartridge or a SEGA CD. There were expansions to PC games but those only added things on. It used to be that you could buy a game, experience it, then come back years later and relive the experience, maybe try things you didn’t get to try in the past, etc.
Now-a-days it’s like you own nothing and nothing ever stays the same. It’s like you put a game down and someone sneaks into your home and modifies it in all sorts of ways then you go back and you have no idea what’s going on for one, and for two you are physically incapable of reliving any of the experience you returned for.
I don’t buy a sandwhich then drive home and unbag it to find it has somehow transmuted itself into a bowl of soup. I want the sandwhich I got. If it wasn’t that sandwhich to begin with, I wouldn’t have gotten it if you know what I mean.
Yeah I could take the time to mod it back to what it was, pay the money to run my own server, etc. It feels like more and more developers are putting the onus of fixing problems and filling design holes on the player community and then acting like it’s some months-long chore to get 15 minutes of coding done to fix anything.
It’s getting old.
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