Another Week, Another New Game Releases in a Suboptimal State

Quite a bit of the gaming hubbub this week was about the not-so-great release of Star Wars: Jedi Survivor.  Apparently, it has been plagued by bad performance and some crashing issues--not to mention that the install size is a whopping 155 GB...and, after downloading that whopper, players had to basically re-download the whole thing as part of a day one effort to patch many issues.  My condolences to the all the hardcore Star Wars folks out there who undoubtedly experienced a lot of frustration.

Cal & BD-1 are back!  Best to wait awhile before joining them though.

Did this affect me personally?  Nope, I greatly enjoyed Fallen Order (you can read my full review here), but I'm not a hardcore enough fan to 1.) pre-order or 2.) buy it on day 1.  There's also this part of me that just wants to yell "c'mon people, shouldn't you just know better!"  Sometimes it just takes a few experiences with getting burned to learn that it's best to just sit back and wait (and yes, I've totally experienced those times).  Sadly, it has become common practice for games to be released in a suboptimal state.  I don't honestly foresee this changing, but it's frustrating nonetheless.

There was also quite a bit of vitriol about the fact that the game was priced at $69.99 and then went on sale...less than a week after release (which was probably for the annual May the 4th Star Wars sale).  It's looking more and more like the price point for triple-A games is going to be rising to a standard $69.99.  Ugh.  Lucky for me that I'm not super into triple-A's.  If I do bite, it'll be when it starts going on sale for cheap--you can usually find Fallen Order on sale for very cheap.

I've gotta say--the graphics do look amazing!  The positive reviews I've read have mentioned that it's a lot of fun...outside of all the technical issues.  Apparently it works just dandy on consoles...so maybe it's time to make the switch?  Just kidding!

I hope they get all the kinks worked out so that all the Star Wars fans can get to lightsabering all the baddies.