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by outworlder 1991 days ago
> I hope this will encourage big studios to stop releasing broken games

The game wasn't "broken" at all. I've finished it a couple of days ago. It works fine on the PC.

It wasn't a matter of releasing an unfinished game as in the "early access" model like you are describing. It was a matter of deciding to release the game in platforms that were underpowered, like the PS4.

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Even stock poor spec PS4 wasnt as bad as media would led you to believe. It runs at 30 fps with occasional drops to 20 fps and seldom/very rare 15fps, MUCH better than past critically acclaimed games like Control which shipped garbage running at literal _10 fps_. Ps4 will also crash on you once every ~5 hours, probably not fixed memory leaks. Still game saves often so its not a problem, more of an annoyance. Other than that its smooth sailing.

You can check it out for yourself here https://www.twitch.tv/ckplayer0ne/videos?filter=archives&sor... CK is doing a full play thru on base PS4 and its fine.

Arguably, they just needed (much) more time to optimize the game for underpowered, older consoles.

Which would mean they released it unfinished, in a sense.