Dead State is pretty much done by a husband and wife team with an outside contractor here and there. They don't have a 'team' and they are about as indie as you can get, and it shows in the lack of polish.
To even remotely compare the lack of polish we are seeing in $60 AAA games to a husband and wife indie team is pretty ridiculous.
You are going to have to change the way you game with more games moving to a 'games as a service' model. The day of 'released' games are over, as a game is never 'done'. There will always be more features, levels, and bug fixes to do.
Oh that's not a problem. Let them release a buggy game, shit happens you know. Viewtiful Joe had the bug that deleted your whole Memory Card.
The difference here is that Capcom didn't try to censor all publications that described it. The DS developers are. Instead of putting up a warning, they removed any quantifier of warnings about the game being buggy by rushing it out of Early Access for the holiday season.
....Again, nothing wrong with that. They want a piece of the pie, so to say. No. The fault lies in the fact that they flagged this review-insignificant in the long run, simply because it threatened their paycheck at the end of the day. I'm not for Libel, so was the information in the interview fallacious? I doubt it.
And that's the issue over it. A game can have bugs. The buyers should be aware of them, however. When you try to silence the issue, is where this main story began.
And yeah, it's a sad state that many games are in. They release rushed for the quarter, a holiday, or the deadline, because after all you can just patch the issues away. But let's not tell the consumer.
......Good lord I'm starting to sound a bit like TB. Let's uh, Thats where my rant ends.
