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Monster Hunter Wilds currently rated "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I specifically held back getting this at launch due to early performance reviews. I still haven't picked it up because apparently all those same performance issues still exist or have gotten worse.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I've found if a game has performance issues at launch it's not going to get better later on, maybe slightly, but generally it's an issue that won't get fixed.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've not found that at all. Usually there are significant improvements in the following weeks/months. Recent examples are DOOM and SpiderMan II.

[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is why we do not pre-order.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

I mean among other reasons, yes. A lot of shady shit going down now like removing Denuvo for reviewers and then adding it back on launch day.

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

Arkham Knight, Witcher 3

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Btw, how's Cities Skylines 2 now?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

No Mans Sky as well?

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

Not in my experience. I typically don't buy AAA titles, but more smaller or indie games. If they got performance issues at launch, and there are no crashes or they were fixed, performance is the next issue getting tackled.

Also these days there's really no excuse for buying and keeping games that aren't playable for you. There's zero reason to pre-order anyway, so just watch reviews when they release. Or test the game yourself and just refund in the refund window if it doesn't run properly. Check back after a few months (or years, depending on patience and/or size of backlog).

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I my experience, games with performance issues at launch end up not having performance issues after about a year, but everyone has already forgotten it because of the performance issues at launch.

[–] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Uhh cyberpunk 2077

Battlefield 4

Cities skylines

No man sky

Diablo 4

Civilization 7

Seems like they turned the ship despite launching a broken mess.