Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has asked PC gamers to wait 15 minutes for shaders to compile in the background while playing after some said this week’s update had caused increased stuttering.
I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release
Remember how like… 5-10 years ago, games just… Kinda worked?
No, I don’t remember that at all.
Some did. Some didn’t.
There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.
If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.
Isn’t 10 - 15 more accurate at this point? I think we’re older than we think.
They did not.
I remember, it was in the lands of make believe and nostalgia I think.
Or when they didn’t have zero day patches because it was a cartridge.
I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release