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Originally Posted by crackpott
You go out to a restaurant to eat. You make your order, and expect your meal in 20-30 minutes. 40 minutes later, you start wondering what's happening. After an hour, you start getting a little annoyed. The longer you have to wait the more angry you get, and to top it off, they haven't bothered informing you WHY your food is not ready, just kept you waiting with the waitress occasionally saying "Sorry, it'll come eventually." Wait... that's probably inaccurate. More likely "Stop complaining. Our chef just came here from another restaurant, so deal with it."
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Yet you keep going back to the same restaurant.
At the risk of being thrashed by the likes of mats and others, I wonder what the alternative is? I'm not sure another baseball sim matches the complexity of OOTP, but that, in itself, can be a double-edged sword. Maybe the urgency with which to improve the product succumbs to the overall superiority the game has, based on features alone, if even only subconsciously. For $35, I'd say it's well worth it, at least until prices start to lower a la ESPN NFL 2K5.
On that note, as a long-time Madden player, I bought 2K5 mostly because it was $20. To me, it was much less the game Madden is, but was well worth the $20. For $50, I'd've been miffed, but for $20, I'm pretty happy.
Anyway, I guess I have two points here: A)If you find yourself continually dissatisfied with each new release of the game, then I wonder why you continue to buy it? and 2)Once a potential customer becomes a paying customer, it's hardly unreasonable to expect promised features in a reasonable amount of time.
As a side note, my gameplay hasn't been too affected by the bugs that are mentioned on this board. Certainly some have been an annoyance, but none have made me question my purchase in any way at all. It is likely, however, that I'm not as hardcore an OOTPer as several others, so I can certainly understand the frustration. Add to that the fact that we were probably assuming much work was being done to address these problems, only to get a post from Markus asking what the bugs are.
With my first point, if things like that continue, I'd assume the frustration of the paying customer will be heard when they stop paying.
