[Melting_Harps]

> 50 years ago the quality of the code was much better.

That's hardly an apt comparison when you see they're focused on rich World creation with many layers of depth as opposed to the rather linear 'white square hits white dot' style games like pong.

They were clearly rushed/pressured by management to release after 8+ years of development and with so many people at home with nothing but free time to fill and 2 delays this year alone, its very obvious to see what happened. I'm guessing this was bound to occur. Especially when modern business models are based on creating a casino addiction model fixated on capturing eyeballs and creating discord online rather than delivering a solid working product from day one.

Personally, my biggest gripe with games/gaming is the lack of fulfillment you get for the time spent after having actually achieved things in real life. I now look it as wasted time not doing things that actually matter or improve my Life and those around me, whereas my teenage-self would have regarded such an addiction to wasting time as 'fun.' Had COVID not happened I definitely would not have picked up gaming again and would have been at an arcade if I had spare time and the inclination to play.

It's really the worst kind of time-sink now because I don't enjoy it and have mainly used it to distract me or to take a break from real-life. And I somehow got paid to play watchdogs legion, too...