I'm Sure a Patch Will Fix it Eventually.
September 14, 2011
So yeah, remember back in the day you'd gather up you birthday monies and go down to ye olde video entertainment emporium and buy yourself an electronic video game cartridge for your Nintendo and/or Sega electronic gaming apparatus, and you'd put it in and play it. Playing it fully believing that the game you're playing is the pinnacle of coding excellence. Now I'm not saying games back then were perfect, cause they weren't. Some games where hard, some games had bad controls, some games were boring, or repetitive or dull, but they were all one thing. Playable. Sadly some games can't say that nowadays.
In today's day of wide spread internet, unforeseen bugs in games can be fixed with a simple patch. Now games back in the day had little bugs too, unfortunately the only way to fix them was with a complete reprint of the game. But as time has passed game companies have gromn complacent and abuse the patch and release games they know are just outright not finished. Final Fantasy XIV comes to mind as a recent example. A game so muddled and unresponsive that Square-Enix gave everyone who bought the game new two additional months of free play time while they fixed the game, and from what I've heard it's still not running all that great.
Another even more recent example, and the point of today's comic would be Dead Island, or more specifically the PC Version. Gamers who purchased the PC version of Dead Island, both the retail and Steam version was plagued with glitches, like unkillable enemies, invisable fire, and being able to turn on no clip mode on with a single keystroke. No clip mode meaning turning off the parameters within the game code that lets the game know what is a solid obstacle and what isn't. In layman's terms you can walk through walls.
Turns out the thing that got shipped as the completed version of the PC game is actually a development build of the 360 version of the game. Now I have to ask the obvious question. Didn't anyone anyone, I don't know, check that? Or did they just say, fuck it, ship it anyway, we'll fix it with a patch.