by Yukon Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:39 am
Its a strange thing to say, but being left with a glitchy online for -only- a month is something some other newer developers cannot say.
Many of the people here were probably playing the game upon release, and saw the same things, but personally I did not find it ruined the game. Online was not absolutely useless I had my shared of co-op and I had a good number of PVP fights in lower areas, and I can say that my first play through the game felt like the best one because of my limited online. I had to learn to do things myself, often if I summoned anyone they were just starting like me, not lightening weapon mask destroyers that steam rolled a level.
The reason PC is getting 'special' treatment is because they waited almost a year to get the game, and guess what they will have to pay about 60 dollars (full price) for it. You had one month of complaint. and You will eventually get the same content as well, so why belly ache?
I am not sure if you have played demon's souls but they did a lot of rework on that game too at the users demand, some of it I wouldn't agree with, just as I didn't agree with some of the changed in 1.05 dark souls.
What was done with PC was most definitely Namco's call, not From, as they are the ones doing the advertising, and from a business stand point that was the only logical move to make sense, you cannot expect somone to buy a full price game a year after release unless you spice it up, you cannot expect prices to spike from console gamers shifting to the new game unless you give the suspense of a possible exlusive PC content, but everyone lost their **** over this. Its a purely tactical business move not a company pissing on its fans.
while the online being broken upon release along with a few other things was frustrating, from worked quickly to reslove the issue, I don't have to say there are some companies that like to release games that are nearly unplayable. But Souls still worked with a half working online as long as you had patience.
atleast this is my point of view.