Quoted from jar155:He has...his whole career. Let's not pretend that Vic isn't a very accomplished professional.
Just because you don't want B66 to receive criticism, it doesn't mean that Vic isn't right and that he's not speaking from real life experience.
Stern's code support is awful. There are bugs on Ghostbusters that should have been cleaned up by now. WWELE can't even be completed. KISS has huge issues. Star Trek has a nasty hanging bug. B66 is in a joke state for a released game. All this shouldn't be excused away. The "ship and patch it later" mentality only works if those patches are released quickly and consistently to the point where the end product is actually finished. Ghostbusters needs work, but they keep shipping games.
People need to stop giving Stern a pass or they'll never change. Needless whining isn't helpful, but holding a company to the appropriate amount of accountability is.
On my way out the door, but:
1. There are a lot of us that are very accomplished individuals. It doesn't mean we are right at everything.
2. Bugs...well there are bugs in pretty much any software release these days. I work in the gaming world too and code has become so complex, what used to be a walk of shame is now just an ordinary issue to put on the list to be fixed. It's unfortunately the world we live in. Some get fixed, others do not. It is ultimately a business decision of risk vs reward in many cases, and we are not here talking other games anyway.....we can do that in those threads and maybe I would agree with you on some of your points.
3. I never said we shouldn't expect good things, or hold the company accountable. I also am not defending the game itself...it has some physical issues that I know I have to live with. My point is that we are all can be very self-centered and impatient when we are the ones waiting for something. In this case there are a lot of accusations being made that have no factual basis. The one thing that IS fact, is that in this case is that the market was well informed of the lack of code before these games were sold. We all just need to take a breather and let Lyman do his thing.