So someone gave me Rebirth as a Christmas present.

It is really pretty... but...

The interface is crap. It is convoluted and confusing. 1st person view is nigh uncontrollable.

I did get my HOTAS Cougar + Pedals working. It wasn't hard but I have my pedals modded to go through the Computer so the game thinks they are all one device.

If only the interface would work... Holy crap. I'm longing for Terran Conflict's one right now.

You know, I just can't help but think that the problem is entirely us, the cosumer.

If we weren't childish "I want it now" type consumers and actually showed some restraint and waited for a game to be released the I am sure the following would happen.

1. Games companies would actually try and polish games
2. Reviewers would have time to actually review a title for us consumers to judge against instead of offering (sometimes) prejudicial reviews in order to get the scoop out quicker to the audiences.

But its not going to change because the consumer wont change.

Anyway, I am glad I didn't purchase it and my hype over this game is completely gone. I won't miss it and I certainly won't be saying.... "geeze I wish I hadn't purchased it" or "Geez I wish they would fix this crap"

I am just glad I have the extra bucks in my back pocket.

No, it's them.
We want it now in restaurants, but that's not how it works. The food has to be cooked or people get sick, or it gets sent back. Continue sending out uncooked food and you get shut down.
If restaurants can make you wait, and you continue to come back since the product is worth it, then game companies can too.

I think this is "want it now" is actually true of the game companies. Too many seem to want to be paid up front and funded by people that should just be buying games if they're any good.
There's far too much crowd funding and early access crap going on.

interesting analogy with restaurants. And yes, its true. However, the one big difference that strikes me is that in a restaurant you get to try the food and eat the whole meal before you pay.


But with gaming and in todays age of online sales its a hell of a lot harder to send your steak back to get it cooked right or leave the restaurant without a tip or paying for a bad meal.

I think the problem is primarily that Egosoft just aren't very good developers. Heck it takes the work of the Egosoft community (unpaid modders) to make all of their games worth playing,

They had seven years for X:R. Hardly "I want it now" mentality.

There is no way in hell they should have shipped that game in this condition, if they needed money they should have done Steam Greenlight early release or something, this was in worse condition than most of those greenlight games. None of us who paid full price for X:Rebirth said '"give it to us now no matter what crappy shape the game is in", they hyped up the release and shipped it as a release quality knowing the main campaign was broken, 100% their fault.

Before the masses start their pitchfork hunt over my last comment..

Just to clarify. I didn't mean we are happy as a consumer to accept faults. I am just saying that we the consumer with the "we want it now" mentality are happy to pre-order games to extraordinary amounts without actually seeing or knowing what the end game is actually like.

(and I am guilty with my pledge with star citizen)

Apart from x2 and eve online, that is the only ones for me.

Times like these, I wonder if quality control is actually being done on games like these. I mean proper, PROPER beta testing.

I remember before when games would come out and I would play it and then go online and #%&*$# about how the system was all wrong and wonky, but mostly everything works. Devs would release patches, but it was more for obscure stuff, like the game crashing if you clicked the mouse and sneezed at the same time, or if it wasn't compatible with an obscure set of old video cards. These days, things get released that are "WTF" broken. I only needed 30 minutes of playing to get to my "WTF" moment... and I actually replayed the intro bit 2x and got stuck at the same place. Then I just couldn't be bothered after that. Judging by the comments on here, there's even more broken stuff down the road. I'm glad I didn't waste my time.

The funny thing is that by the time it is playable it will cost like $3 on Steam.