It is definitely a combination problem 😅. There are tons of decisions made on the development lvl that show the lack of management and development skills/ innovations.
It’s honestly insane that these companies knowingly release unfinished games. It feels like they have the apologies pre-written knowing that the game isn’t ready to be launched.
They’ve been doing it a long time. Everyone is just now noticing because the prices are outrageous. Think about when certain games come out, the modding community fixes stuff, then sometimes up to 10 years later, the original developers finally add the features. A good example is world of Warcraft. That game came out at $40, required a monthly $15, and they just last November (if memory serves me right, either way, entirely too long) finally added custom interface placement. There’s countless examples like that. Granted times change, it’s gotten out of hand… we get “no man sky” type hype with every game now days.
Eh I wouldn't call CDPR's apology damage control considering it's.... well CDPR they have a reputation this is also their first mistake unlike so many other companies
"We are sorry that we got caught doing shady things and we vowe to hide it better next time. Preorder the next premium edition of our Live-Service game."
@@Dovah_Slayer they faked the 2016 trailer. Completely! Dude.. They said the older console generation runs good. They prevented reviewers to talk about the game. Stop falling for this
@maxcombo3448 so hes a lying piece of shit...why say something so stupid. Is it literally just a gimmick to get people to watch? (Never expected any pizza, thats why im so curious)
I'm surprised that Square Enix's apology for the state of Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 isn't on this list. The company heads literally appeared before their fans and apologized with a kowtow bow... and then replaced the game director with Naoki Yoshida, who turned the game completely around.
Yeah no seriously, that whole debacle nearly sunk the entire company - the CEO at the time LEFT because of how badly 1.0 went down. The original producer of the game was a Square veteran since the Famicom days, and he got LET GO. In the Noclip documentary about the event, the translation lead talked about how they were trying to explain to the Japanese management to tone down on the apologizing because they were doing it too much - The amount of apologizing they were doing was fine and indicated sincerity in Japanese, but reached a point where it started coming across as insincere in English.
@@Tooney712 And yet with SE's disrespect for their history and continued interest in NFT and live service games, the English interpretation seems accurate.
Honestly kind of surprised there wasn't a string of honorable mentions at the end at least. There were tons of things I can think of that didnt make it
True I'm at the point where I'm shocked and singing praises over games that aren't super broken on release. Some in the last year are Like a Dragon, Resident Evil 4 and the Final Fantasy games
Oh God, now EA will release an Apology DLC where we have to pay $24.99 to get them to say they're sorry FOR THE FUCKING DEAD SPACE REMAKE PC PORT WHICH HAS BEEN OUT FOR A YEAR AND STILL ISN'T FIXED.
I can understand the apologies related to rushed developments and messy games, but when a company "apologizes" for being too greedy you just know is not an honest apology
What pisses me off most about sim city is EA is the one that messed it up but they won’t release a new one because Sim City 4 wasn’t a financial success (of course it wasn’t). We’ll buy it again if you just do it right
@@Dovah_Slayerlol you are part fo the problem, the don't deserve forgiveness. They took several years to make a game playable when it should have been released in that state.
@@meh7348 The hyperbole is insane. It was shit on last gen consoles, agreed. If you had a decent PC with modern hardware the game was perfectly playable and mostly bug free right at launch though. Any time somebody says it wasn't playable on PC I ask what GPU they had at the time. Inevitably the answer is always like a 1060 or 1080. You can't be two fucking GPU generations behind and expect to run the modern equivalent of Crysis without problems. I had a 3070 when it launched and the game ran perfectly fine for me, no crashes, no bugs.
@@ForeverMasterlessGreat point. But to be honest it should have never been released to last gen to begin with. As far as PC goes I agree . People are always complaining about low fps on potatoes and don't even have it installed on an SSD
"We are sorry criminals got your data and credit card through us, but rest assured we took security steps, moving forward you won't be able to sue us if it happens again. You are welcome!"
Stuff like this is why gamers get angry about the attitude a lot of these companies have towards their fans. Like the Capcom exec who said games should be priced higher than the already expensive af $70 price tag and Ubisoft saying that we need to get comfortable with not owning our games. They want more money even when they put out trash. Like Ubisoft had been doubling down on Skull and Bones calling it "quadruple A"
I’d rather pay more and have a better game. Inflation has everything about 3x expensive games have gone up 10 bucks. I’d pay 120 for a game if it had a ton of content and no bugs.
Most gamers are so blissfully ignorant of how hard game development is. These people deserve to be paid for their work. If the game isn’t good don’t buy it but trying to say these people should do hard work and not have their pay to match inflation is insane.
If there is a silver lining in the fallout 76 situation, they did keep working on the game to fix it. Whether or not they were fully successful, I would hesitate to say.
The fact neither Nintendo, Game Freak or even Creatures Inc. will ever be on one of these lists for the state in which they have been releasing the latest Pokémon games...
Why apologize if fans keep buying the games regardless. It's not like people can't find out a game is broken nowadays. 23 million of them still bought it. Why would they say they did anything wrong?
I remember getting Mass Effect for free because of how bad the Sim City launch was. I had a friend over and we were actually excited for the coop part, but we spent the entire night unable to play because of server issues. Like oh its Sim City, we'll just both play some single player and see what we can get into, then we'll try the coop later when things calm down a bit but NOPE. Always online even in single player.
It's one thing to apologize, and another to apologize and do something about the issues. What grinds my gears is how Jedi: Survivor was released on the PC and still left in that state - EA basically pulling a FIFA on a Star Wars game. Found out recently when I tried to run the game with all low settings on an RTX 3070, only to crash after the opening sequence. Refunded it in 12 hours.
Honestly- maybe it already exists and I don’t know- but Falcon is at this point a grizzled vet of gaming and obviously has real points that go above and beyond a channel that’s doing the every other day vid schtick. I want to hear some rants from my second favourite Birdman (second only to tony ain’t bad) I want a gameranx or other soapbox for falcon to really get into some thoughts he has on the industry as a whole. I think that would be great. Much love from UK my feathered friend. You’re a righteous dude.
A lot of people don't know what an apology means or how to say it properly. You're sorry for something you did or said, not the others reaction to said actions or words. "We're sorry you thought our game would be finished." "We're sorry you expected an unbroken game."
@@biscuitboi9478 When I was younger I couldn't figure out why I was playing as Haytham instead of Connor in Assassin's Creed 3. Silly but I was genuinely confused. Of course Metal Gear 2 as well with Raiden lol
Sony forcing players to sign an agreement on "don't sue the company" is tragicomic, and even more thinking on how many people signed an agreement like this.
Every publisher : Sorry for releasing an unfinished mess at full price. Nintendo : Sorry to delay Metroid Prime 4, it was not up to the Nintendo standard and we want to make sure it lives up to our fans expectations.
CP2077 was a hell of a turnaround. I absolutely love it and was so happy to see the player count go thru the roof when Edgerunners, also a masterpiece, came out.
Completely disagree. NMS was a disaster when it launched and after 7 years of fixes the game is mediocre at best. Combat is abysmal. PC optimization is non-existent. Exploration and survival are fun at first but quickly decline after you understand the shallow and formulaic gameplay. If NMS was a turd on launch, it's now a turd rolled in glitter.
I'm especially sad about Deadelic bc they also made little beautiful games like "Silence". Can really recommend it. Beautiful world, characters, music and atmosphere. It was just that head of the company got too greedy and took Gollum as a project which was way too big for them.
Its been years, and everyone forgets, but cp2077 wasn't just hated due to bugs, performance, etc. it was also hated because the game wasn't as advertised feature wise. the city was dead, and lifeless. lifepaths meant nothing. there were no dynamic events in the open world, no minigames, nothing else to do besides the on rails story, or the side quests at map markers. people questioned why it was even an open world game. the city itself looked amazing, but had almost nothing to do in it. a majority of the immersive elements they showed in the night city wire trailers were either cut, or never planned in the first place. it was very, very bad for many, many reasons on release.
I was a bit worried about the intonation and speed of Falcon, like he was slurring or something. Turns out that I had watched a sewing video before, because I needed to put a button back on a shirt and I am not exactly good at that stuff, and slowed it to follow the various passages.
The Sony hack was one of the most memorable news stories I ever covered. I think it was the third day of the network being down that I started covering it. It was largely because downtime for a day isn't necessarily noteworthy, but when day 3 rolled around and there was still downtime, I started covering the story because I figured something serious had to be happening. I had no clue it was THAT bad, though. The day I found out that it was, at the time, one of the biggest security breaches ever was absolutely stunning to me. At that point, I was just hanging on for dear life covering that story because I was in for one wild ride. Disturbingly, data breaches that happened in more recent years makes the Sony hack. I mean, just like at things like the Equifax breach, the Aadhaar breach, the multiple Facebook breaches, the Marriott International breach, and others and they make the Sony hack seem like a quaint little inconvenience by comparison. Still, at the time, yeah, the Sony hack was REALLY bad and most certainly made my jaw drop at the time.
I remember friends making fun of me for paying for Xbox live when PSN was free but man did that backfire when they were hacked and couldn’t play games for a month. Crazy times.
The best part of Gollum's apology is they didn't even bother to get the title of the game right in the apology. They called it "The Lord of Ring : Gollum"
@matthewhibbard9807 yeah. Crazy to think the CEO patted herself on the back and said she was the first to have a black character on the cover. Lol Talk about living in fairytale land. I guessed she missed pretty much every sports game ever and Prototype 2.
I came for 'Last Rebellion' but I don't think anyone actually played that. Great list gameranx! Nods for calling out empty corporate-speak when you see it.
16:05 I always love when companies put somethings obviously illegal in their terms of service like "If this product randomly explodes for no reason, you're not allowed taking legal actions", as if just putting it in a EULA suddenly allows them to do anything at all.
As people have said ad-nauseam, game companies would stop releasing unfinished games if people would stop buying them it that state. If you don't like how the industry treats consumers, vote with your wallet.
The question is what are we gonna do about it? Gamers still preordering, still lining up and paying to beta test the next big thing, still rooting for companies that have been shells of themselves for decades. This is the new standard
Companies will never learn when they can just burn an audience and rub their nips while saying “we’re sorry” into a camera and make it how it should have been on launch, years later, and players, and especially game media, say “it’s fine, they made it work”. It’s up to the consumer now to make sure they don’t get F’d by paying attention to review copy status, or just waiting for the games to come out, but the hype and DLC pre-order fomo gets a lot of purchases locked in on good faith before consumers even realize they’re about to get burned.
Just saw this pop up in my related videos, and I just have to say: It's sad we only have 10 times game companies had to apologize... when we know there are a _lot_ more times when they should have.
Last time I preorderd ,the games were in cd copy,HALO 3,now that there isn't an issue finding the game on the store,there is not even one reason to preorder.
"We sincerely regret that we got caught trying to screw over the very people we rely on to keep us employed." The above examples are precisely why I don't by games anymore.
Kinda feel bad for Daedalic. They were good at making the games that they normally make, then they're forced upon a project such as Gollum, and it ends up being so bad that the entire studio shuts down.
I bought cyberpunk a couple of years back from the local game shop. I normally by used games as they were cheaper, took the box to the cashier, and he came back with a new copy, the metal case, a small graphic novel book, some stickers and other stuff. He said it was the preorder pack, and as nobody was buying the game, I might as well have it....all for €25! Took it home, loaded it, it downloaded all the patches, and I spent a good few months enjoying a killer, bug free game. Definitely a great result!
I'm surprised that neither FF14 or No Man's Sky aren't on here. Those are probably 2 of the greatest examples of a company taking a genuine stance in apologizing and making this up to their fanbases for terrible games that pushed them away. Both are now excellent titles because of it.
SquareEnix apologizing for Final Fantasy 14 should be on here. The game was such a disaster that they took it offline and rebuilt it. The director was even crying during the apology.
After seeing Cyberpunk and GTA, I was really surprised not to see Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the list. It was a hot mess at launch and stayed that way for a while, until they eventually decided to apologize and fix it, added ODST and gave it away free for original players, added Reach, reworked the UI, added multiple seasons of customization that was all earnable in-game.
Honestly the non-textured white models look really cool. Obviously it’s inexcusable to release in that state, but that’s a visual you could really use artistically if you knew what you were doing.
Cyberpunk 2077 played perfectly fine for me with minimal glitches at launch when I played it on a One X. My friends that also played it on a One X had no issues either. The only people I knew personally that had issues were playing on an old gen One, or an old gen PS4.
Imagine ordering food and your food was frozen in the middle. They take the food back, throw in the microwave again and bring it back to you and now it’s cold in the middle. I’d say you deserve a full refund and compensation Games need to be like this as well. It’s absolute BS games can be released unfinished. I’m not unreasonable, I understand there are hiccups but there’s a difference between hiccups and pure telltale signs of unfinished content. All gamers DESERVE to have a refund option. If you are not satisfied in the first let’s say 24-48hrs, you deserve to have a legal right to a refund. That puts pressure on studios to FINISH what they started and not release uncooked products. CEOs will be upset they lose money for not releasing games “on time” but if they implement refunds for everyone, they will lose even more if their product is crap. So let the studios have their delays to ensure quality content because the fans are the only way to keep studios afloat.
Polyphony didn't just change credit output, they implemented online only and forced that update along with launching real money credit purchasing at the same time. They basically released the game looking like it would be easy to earn credits, then swapped it to push microtransactions after launch.
I have a lot of respect for the companies who took responsibility and fixed the issues. At the very least, some of these took responsibility for their mistakes and fixed them. I haven't seen all of these games and their issues, but I've dealt with companies that talk about caring for their customers, but don't apologize or fix anything. EA Games and Maxis did this with the Sims 4. I actually liked the game. But, I saw numerous people who were being ignored, including me. I will never purchase another DLC from this game or company, especially not before I wait for the reviews to show up.
Everyone who’s complaining are the exact same ones who are gonna pre-order the next hyped release lol. It’s why internet rage does not make impacts on sales.
I've payed several games that required an internet connection to play and not recent games. in the 2010s I got refunds for several games that required you to log into the server to play and the server was shut down a few months later. That's why when I hear online required, I avoid the game entirely.
In case you haven't noticed yet, corporate apologies are disingenuous and mean nothing. Vote with your wallet instead because that is the only thing companies understand.
Rome total war. No games after that beats it. Many gamers today was not even born when the game was out. It was big. Worked awesome. And the first shogun. Rome total war released 2004 and first shogun released year 2000. Back in those days we had game stores everywhere. Hands on the best in the series.
Still gonna think long and hard before I buy something CDPR related next time they release something new. Most people have forgotten by now, but they really screwed their fanbase over and even the Polish government were investigating them over Cyberpunk. So even tho the game is good now, they haven't earned my trust yet.
Programmer : "The Game isn't ready"
Publisher : (looks at pretty 3d models) "Looks ready"
Shareholder/Investor: Send it out, however it is.
I think that’s literally it though haha
But it's not ready! THEY WON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!
It is definitely a combination problem 😅. There are tons of decisions made on the development lvl that show the lack of management and development skills/ innovations.
"but we need/want the money NOW"
It’s honestly insane that these companies knowingly release unfinished games. It feels like they have the apologies pre-written knowing that the game isn’t ready to be launched.
They know people will buy it regardless
They’ve been doing it a long time. Everyone is just now noticing because the prices are outrageous. Think about when certain games come out, the modding community fixes stuff, then sometimes up to 10 years later, the original developers finally add the features. A good example is world of Warcraft. That game came out at $40, required a monthly $15, and they just last November (if memory serves me right, either way, entirely too long) finally added custom interface placement. There’s countless examples like that. Granted times change, it’s gotten out of hand… we get “no man sky” type hype with every game now days.
Ps, not disagreeing with original comment. I do encourage those to think about it, though.
Deadass
Why hire testers when customers will do it for them and pay companies $70/test. This only ends when customers start acting smarter
Apology is a generous word. An accurate description would be "damage control"
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Eh I wouldn't call CDPR's apology damage control considering it's.... well CDPR they have a reputation this is also their first mistake unlike so many other companies
@@Dovah_Slayer it absolutely was, they even pretended the PC version was fine in the apology and it was anything but
@@shahnoorahmed1462 so they had a hard time admitting the PC version was just as broken so what they still buckled down and tried to fix it
@@shahnoorahmed1462agreed people who say otherwise are coping hard
"We are sorry that we got caught doing shady things and we vowe to hide it better next time. Preorder the next premium edition of our Live-Service game."
This!
Most of the time I'd agree but not with Cyberpunk and CDPR it felt like a genuine mistake and apology
@@Dovah_Slayer youre a dumb person
I buy less and less games every year it seems honestly. This bullshit just keeps getting worse and I’m sick of it.
@@Dovah_Slayer they faked the 2016 trailer. Completely! Dude..
They said the older console generation runs good. They prevented reviewers to talk about the game. Stop falling for this
Jake needs to apologize for not giving us the pizza we've been waiting for for years now
That and killing us all with high blood pressure thanks to his endless grains of salt
Yea...thats the dumbest closing line ever. Its a lie.
we are not going to get that pizza lol
@maxcombo3448 so hes a lying piece of shit...why say something so stupid. Is it literally just a gimmick to get people to watch?
(Never expected any pizza, thats why im so curious)
Agreed
Don’t be sorry, be better!
Yes, Kratos!
Hi sorry, im dad
I see people of culture here
In the direction of better.
BOY. 😂
I'm surprised that Square Enix's apology for the state of Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 isn't on this list. The company heads literally appeared before their fans and apologized with a kowtow bow... and then replaced the game director with Naoki Yoshida, who turned the game completely around.
This should definitely be on this list. I didn’t play that game before or after it was fixed but I’ve damn sure heard all about it!
Yeah no seriously, that whole debacle nearly sunk the entire company - the CEO at the time LEFT because of how badly 1.0 went down. The original producer of the game was a Square veteran since the Famicom days, and he got LET GO. In the Noclip documentary about the event, the translation lead talked about how they were trying to explain to the Japanese management to tone down on the apologizing because they were doing it too much - The amount of apologizing they were doing was fine and indicated sincerity in Japanese, but reached a point where it started coming across as insincere in English.
@@Tooney712 And yet with SE's disrespect for their history and continued interest in NFT and live service games, the English interpretation seems accurate.
Honestly kind of surprised there wasn't a string of honorable mentions at the end at least. There were tons of things I can think of that didnt make it
I was gonna mention it I never played the original one just the Realm Reborn and it's amazing
" Do you guys not have phones? " Ill never forget that.
And unfortunately Blizzard will never forget the 1.5 million dollars a day it's raking in from Diablo Immortal.
@@pcppbadmintoni see you misspelt there. its Diablo Immoral
and then path of exile comes out. whats diablo again i cant remember
Most ignorant answer from that guy.... That's the day blizzard died
Wonder if that guy killed himself after saying that?
Don't forget about the Gollum apology: They even got the name for the game they were apologizing for wrong.
thats what happens when you use chatgpt to write your apology for you
Was that in the screenshot? I didn't notice. What did they call it?
@@Echidneys “Lord of Ring: Gollum”
Ha! Gollum really was a perfect storm of fuckery.
such a blatant money grab hack job.
Seems like every game nowadays comes with a free apology included. It’s like dlc! 🤦♂️
True I'm at the point where I'm shocked and singing praises over games that aren't super broken on release. Some in the last year are Like a Dragon, Resident Evil 4 and the Final Fantasy games
game dev studio apologies are the new Day 1 DLC of the 2020s
It's like the booklet in the physical version😂
Oh God, now EA will release an Apology DLC where we have to pay $24.99 to get them to say they're sorry FOR THE FUCKING DEAD SPACE REMAKE PC PORT WHICH HAS BEEN OUT FOR A YEAR AND STILL ISN'T FIXED.
@@MrTerrorzone2012Like A Dragon is freaking fantastic. I’ll be beating it soon. About 110hrs in file
"We are so sorry for releasing a buggy broken game, now give us your money!"
-Some game company CEO
I can understand the apologies related to rushed developments and messy games, but when a company "apologizes" for being too greedy you just know is not an honest apology
What pisses me off most about sim city is EA is the one that messed it up but they won’t release a new one because Sim City 4 wasn’t a financial success (of course it wasn’t). We’ll buy it again if you just do it right
This is honestly a *really* good video topic.
I don't want their apology... I want them to not do bad things to begin with.
Yeah well I'll forgive CDPR they've treated their fans right in the past and know any mistakes could be the end of them
@@Dovah_Slayerlol you are part fo the problem, the don't deserve forgiveness. They took several years to make a game playable when it should have been released in that state.
@@meh7348 The hyperbole is insane. It was shit on last gen consoles, agreed. If you had a decent PC with modern hardware the game was perfectly playable and mostly bug free right at launch though. Any time somebody says it wasn't playable on PC I ask what GPU they had at the time. Inevitably the answer is always like a 1060 or 1080. You can't be two fucking GPU generations behind and expect to run the modern equivalent of Crysis without problems. I had a 3070 when it launched and the game ran perfectly fine for me, no crashes, no bugs.
@@ForeverMasterlessGreat point. But to be honest it should have never been released to last gen to begin with. As far as PC goes I agree . People are always complaining about low fps on potatoes and don't even have it installed on an SSD
*sony 😂
The fact that the name of the game is spelled wrong in the Gollum apology letter is completely insane and my proof for why they just didn’t care.
I feel bad for Daedelic games though. That situation was Nacon’s fault.
This could be a 50+ part series
All I can think of is the BP CEO apology from South Park lmao
Exactly! They have AI AND TEMPLETS for saying “sorry” they’re so insincere.
"We're sorry 😉 "
Sorry....
Has anyone apologized for Suicide Squad yet?
“Insert Apology DLC here” Only costs $60+ Dollars 😂
"We are sorry criminals got your data and credit card through us, but rest assured we took security steps, moving forward you won't be able to sue us if it happens again. You are welcome!"
Stuff like this is why gamers get angry about the attitude a lot of these companies have towards their fans. Like the Capcom exec who said games should be priced higher than the already expensive af $70 price tag and Ubisoft saying that we need to get comfortable with not owning our games. They want more money even when they put out trash. Like Ubisoft had been doubling down on Skull and Bones calling it "quadruple A"
I’d rather pay more and have a better game. Inflation has everything about 3x expensive games have gone up 10 bucks. I’d pay 120 for a game if it had a ton of content and no bugs.
@@___gg421 paying more doesn't make a game better
@@___gg421 found the corporate bootlicker
@@___gg421 That may be so, but they ain't increasing quality with price, they're decreasing quality and then having the gaul to increase the price.
Most gamers are so blissfully ignorant of how hard game development is. These people deserve to be paid for their work. If the game isn’t good don’t buy it but trying to say these people should do hard work and not have their pay to match inflation is insane.
Was gonna say im suprised fallout 76 didnt make it into this, but i dont think we ever heard the words "sorry" or "we apologise" from anyone
If there is a silver lining in the fallout 76 situation, they did keep working on the game to fix it. Whether or not they were fully successful, I would hesitate to say.
There’s always a apology with every game nowadays
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For real
Nothing better than packing a new bowl and seeing Gameranx post a new video. Keep up the great work, y’all.
😂👏🏼🔥💨
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Oh yeah? Frosted flakes or?
@@PrinceIsot he's not talking about cereal🙄
@@johnomalley7211 r/woosh
The fact neither Nintendo, Game Freak or even Creatures Inc. will ever be on one of these lists for the state in which they have been releasing the latest Pokémon games...
Why apologize if fans keep buying the games regardless. It's not like people can't find out a game is broken nowadays. 23 million of them still bought it. Why would they say they did anything wrong?
@@stuartmorley6894 Man that is a lot of butthurt
@@OhNoTheFace😂😂😂
Nintendo could release Tetris labeled as a new Pokémon game, never fix the error, and still never apologize.
The gollum apology is so empty they didn't even bother to spell check the name of their own game.
I remember getting Mass Effect for free because of how bad the Sim City launch was. I had a friend over and we were actually excited for the coop part, but we spent the entire night unable to play because of server issues. Like oh its Sim City, we'll just both play some single player and see what we can get into, then we'll try the coop later when things calm down a bit but NOPE. Always online even in single player.
It's one thing to apologize, and another to apologize and do something about the issues. What grinds my gears is how Jedi: Survivor was released on the PC and still left in that state - EA basically pulling a FIFA on a Star Wars game. Found out recently when I tried to run the game with all low settings on an RTX 3070, only to crash after the opening sequence. Refunded it in 12 hours.
Honestly- maybe it already exists and I don’t know- but Falcon is at this point a grizzled vet of gaming and obviously has real points that go above and beyond a channel that’s doing the every other day vid schtick. I want to hear some rants from my second favourite Birdman (second only to tony ain’t bad) I want a gameranx or other soapbox for falcon to really get into some thoughts he has on the industry as a whole. I think that would be great. Much love from UK my feathered friend. You’re a righteous dude.
Your thoughts on gaming are literally ALL right. And morally and ethically about devs etc- you’re sounding angry. Use it.
A lot of people don't know what an apology means or how to say it properly. You're sorry for something you did or said, not the others reaction to said actions or words.
"We're sorry you thought our game would be finished."
"We're sorry you expected an unbroken game."
Idea for video: Top 10 Times the game intros tricked you into thinking you were playing a different game than you bought.
Any examples come to mind? Closest I can think is MGS2, but that just tricked you into who you were playing as. Genuinely curious 😂.
@@biscuitboi9478 When I was younger I couldn't figure out why I was playing as Haytham instead of Connor in Assassin's Creed 3. Silly but I was genuinely confused. Of course Metal Gear 2 as well with Raiden lol
Sony forcing players to sign an agreement on "don't sue the company" is tragicomic, and even more thinking on how many people signed an agreement like this.
Every publisher : Sorry for releasing an unfinished mess at full price.
Nintendo : Sorry to delay Metroid Prime 4, it was not up to the Nintendo standard and we want to make sure it lives up to our fans expectations.
CP2077 was a hell of a turnaround. I absolutely love it and was so happy to see the player count go thru the roof when Edgerunners, also a masterpiece, came out.
@NukeSonys You mean like yourself?
Iove this game ❤❤❤. But still needs more features and mods.
@NukeSonysprobably mad cause you can’t run it lmao
@NukeSonys Hyperbole doesn't help your case here. Maybe grow up.
@@chrisallen9638You guys should grow up.
Saying Cyberpunk is a good game is just delusional, i'am not blind.
I feel like a list like this is incomplete without Hello Games. Their apology really went above and beyond, and is still going on to this day.
Completely disagree. NMS was a disaster when it launched and after 7 years of fixes the game is mediocre at best. Combat is abysmal. PC optimization is non-existent. Exploration and survival are fun at first but quickly decline after you understand the shallow and formulaic gameplay. If NMS was a turd on launch, it's now a turd rolled in glitter.
@@lopan44And the salt commodities market just shot through the roof. Bet your dividend check for this quarter's gonna be HUGE! 😅😂🤣
Upcoming apology after gta 6 coming
What's funny is how Activision never apologizes for anything they do
So activision is based?
No@@databattlesz
It would be if it ever solved its issues@@databattlesz
Suckers keep buying thsir games that they think theyre doing a good job.
I'm especially sad about Deadelic bc they also made little beautiful games like "Silence". Can really recommend it. Beautiful world, characters, music and atmosphere.
It was just that head of the company got too greedy and took Gollum as a project which was way too big for them.
Its been years, and everyone forgets, but cp2077 wasn't just hated due to bugs, performance, etc. it was also hated because the game wasn't as advertised feature wise. the city was dead, and lifeless. lifepaths meant nothing. there were no dynamic events in the open world, no minigames, nothing else to do besides the on rails story, or the side quests at map markers. people questioned why it was even an open world game. the city itself looked amazing, but had almost nothing to do in it.
a majority of the immersive elements they showed in the night city wire trailers were either cut, or never planned in the first place. it was very, very bad for many, many reasons on release.
SimCity is playable offline. Offline saves were added about a year after the release
Falcon should apologize for butchering the pronounciation of Daedalic 4 times in this video.
You could fill this entire list with Bethesda
These companies apologizing is like someone apologizing for punching your face. They know what they’re doing and they decide to do it anyway
I bought III, VC, & SA the last day they were up on the PS3 store.
Thank you guys for the heads up.
Props to CDPR. They worked their asses off to make the game what it is now and it’s became my favorite game of all time
Blizzard is such a terrible company now. Such a shame
Don't forget HELLO Games. No Man's Sky. It's come a long way. Great company to stand behind there game. No extra cost too.
Too little too late. Lots of people had the 8 bit experience with Galaticraft. I’d rather play that any day than no man’s sky.
@@databattlesz haha enjoy it by yourself
I was a bit worried about the intonation and speed of Falcon, like he was slurring or something. Turns out that I had watched a sewing video before, because I needed to put a button back on a shirt and I am not exactly good at that stuff, and slowed it to follow the various passages.
The Sony hack was one of the most memorable news stories I ever covered. I think it was the third day of the network being down that I started covering it. It was largely because downtime for a day isn't necessarily noteworthy, but when day 3 rolled around and there was still downtime, I started covering the story because I figured something serious had to be happening. I had no clue it was THAT bad, though. The day I found out that it was, at the time, one of the biggest security breaches ever was absolutely stunning to me. At that point, I was just hanging on for dear life covering that story because I was in for one wild ride.
Disturbingly, data breaches that happened in more recent years makes the Sony hack. I mean, just like at things like the Equifax breach, the Aadhaar breach, the multiple Facebook breaches, the Marriott International breach, and others and they make the Sony hack seem like a quaint little inconvenience by comparison. Still, at the time, yeah, the Sony hack was REALLY bad and most certainly made my jaw drop at the time.
I find it funny that Respawn made an apology, they made patches for 3 weeks, then started doing them monthly, and then just stopped after october.
I remember friends making fun of me for paying for Xbox live when PSN was free but man did that backfire when they were hacked and couldn’t play games for a month. Crazy times.
Nowadays, companies just try and see how far they can go. When the sh*t hits the fan, they apologize and row back...
when HelloGames turned No Man's Sky around, that's when CEOs decided that apologies would be a core feature of every single one of their launches
Falcon says rockstar issued "Weasel words." 😂😂😂 Such a masterful summary of marketing rhetoric these days.
The best part of Gollum's apology is they didn't even bother to get the title of the game right in the apology. They called it "The Lord of Ring : Gollum"
That Sony hack was the longest 24 days of my life
No man’s Sky has to be one of the finest apology + turnaround and comeback stories ever tho fr
Numbers 1-10 should be all games employing SweetBaby. Nice. Gameranx throwin some nice techno for background music!
Saw It'saGundam video about them is crazy how many games they trashed for DEI or whatever it is.
@@poeticsilence047 now that you know, you’ll spot right away in the future what they’re involved in.
@matthewhibbard9807 yeah. Crazy to think the CEO patted herself on the back and said she was the first to have a black character on the cover. Lol Talk about living in fairytale land. I guessed she missed pretty much every sports game ever and Prototype 2.
@@poeticsilence047 yes. They live in complete fantasy land where everything is evil. Crazy people they are.
I came for 'Last Rebellion' but I don't think anyone actually played that. Great list gameranx! Nods for calling out empty corporate-speak when you see it.
They are not giving apologies. They are taking a leak down everyone's back and calling it rain.
16:05 I always love when companies put somethings obviously illegal in their terms of service like "If this product randomly explodes for no reason, you're not allowed taking legal actions", as if just putting it in a EULA suddenly allows them to do anything at all.
As people have said ad-nauseam, game companies would stop releasing unfinished games if people would stop buying them it that state. If you don't like how the industry treats consumers, vote with your wallet.
The question is what are we gonna do about it? Gamers still preordering, still lining up and paying to beta test the next big thing, still rooting for companies that have been shells of themselves for decades. This is the new standard
Now make "Top 10 times companies should have apologized but they didn't give a crap about it".
Companies will never learn when they can just burn an audience and rub their nips while saying “we’re sorry” into a camera and make it how it should have been on launch, years later, and players, and especially game media, say “it’s fine, they made it work”.
It’s up to the consumer now to make sure they don’t get F’d by paying attention to review copy status, or just waiting for the games to come out, but the hype and DLC pre-order fomo gets a lot of purchases locked in on good faith before consumers even realize they’re about to get burned.
"marketing speak and weasel words". That's a good one gonna save that in the mind drawer.
Just saw this pop up in my related videos, and I just have to say:
It's sad we only have 10 times game companies had to apologize... when we know there are a _lot_ more times when they should have.
Last time I preorderd ,the games were in cd copy,HALO 3,now that there isn't an issue finding the game on the store,there is not even one reason to preorder.
"We sincerely regret that we got caught trying to screw over the very people we rely on to keep us employed." The above examples are precisely why I don't by games anymore.
The 3 CEOs bowing down feels somehow very sincere even though I did not hear a word, it feels like they feel they betrayed their dynasty.
Ah yes. "it's ready when it's ready"
Proceeds to release it far from ready
Kinda feel bad for Daedalic. They were good at making the games that they normally make, then they're forced upon a project such as Gollum, and it ends up being so bad that the entire studio shuts down.
I bought cyberpunk a couple of years back from the local game shop. I normally by used games as they were cheaper, took the box to the cashier, and he came back with a new copy, the metal case, a small graphic novel book, some stickers and other stuff. He said it was the preorder pack, and as nobody was buying the game, I might as well have it....all for €25!
Took it home, loaded it, it downloaded all the patches, and I spent a good few months enjoying a killer, bug free game.
Definitely a great result!
I'm surprised that neither FF14 or No Man's Sky aren't on here. Those are probably 2 of the greatest examples of a company taking a genuine stance in apologizing and making this up to their fanbases for terrible games that pushed them away. Both are now excellent titles because of it.
SquareEnix apologizing for Final Fantasy 14 should be on here. The game was such a disaster that they took it offline and rebuilt it. The director was even crying during the apology.
After seeing Cyberpunk and GTA, I was really surprised not to see Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the list. It was a hot mess at launch and stayed that way for a while, until they eventually decided to apologize and fix it, added ODST and gave it away free for original players, added Reach, reworked the UI, added multiple seasons of customization that was all earnable in-game.
Gotta admit, I'm surprised that "No Man's Sky" isn't on the list.
Did they never apologize for that? I thought they had.
As I remember, CEO took all the blame for himself and told all the developers not to go online for the game discussion and focus on fixing the game.
Gameranx done grew some nuts 😂😂 I’m here for it guys💪💪
Honestly the non-textured white models look really cool. Obviously it’s inexcusable to release in that state, but that’s a visual you could really use artistically if you knew what you were doing.
Cyberpunk 2077 played perfectly fine for me with minimal glitches at launch when I played it on a One X. My friends that also played it on a One X had no issues either. The only people I knew personally that had issues were playing on an old gen One, or an old gen PS4.
I don’t even bother buying new games anymore. I wait a year or more.
Same here. Discounted, patched, sometimes with DLC already included. You save on money AND disappointment.
It's like that one episode of South Park "wErE sOrRy" where they rub their nipples lmao
Imagine ordering food and your food was frozen in the middle.
They take the food back, throw in the microwave again and bring it back to you and now it’s cold in the middle.
I’d say you deserve a full refund and compensation
Games need to be like this as well. It’s absolute BS games can be released unfinished. I’m not unreasonable, I understand there are hiccups but there’s a difference between hiccups and pure telltale signs of unfinished content.
All gamers DESERVE to have a refund option. If you are not satisfied in the first let’s say 24-48hrs, you deserve to have a legal right to a refund. That puts pressure on studios to FINISH what they started and not release uncooked products.
CEOs will be upset they lose money for not releasing games “on time” but if they implement refunds for everyone, they will lose even more if their product is crap. So let the studios have their delays to ensure quality content because the fans are the only way to keep studios afloat.
It still blows my mind that a company can go from the Witcher 3 to cyberpunk. Just how?🤔
Polyphony didn't just change credit output, they implemented online only and forced that update along with launching real money credit purchasing at the same time. They basically released the game looking like it would be easy to earn credits, then swapped it to push microtransactions after launch.
I have a lot of respect for the companies who took responsibility and fixed the issues. At the very least, some of these took responsibility for their mistakes and fixed them. I haven't seen all of these games and their issues, but I've dealt with companies that talk about caring for their customers, but don't apologize or fix anything. EA Games and Maxis did this with the Sims 4. I actually liked the game. But, I saw numerous people who were being ignored, including me. I will never purchase another DLC from this game or company, especially not before I wait for the reviews to show up.
Everyone who’s complaining are the exact same ones who are gonna pre-order the next hyped release lol.
It’s why internet rage does not make impacts on sales.
I hate when Devs assume anger means no interest in a franchise.
Once again the Falcon slaps with some real talk
The amount of recent apologies are worrying!
It's like the industry is moving backwards
I've payed several games that required an internet connection to play and not recent games. in the 2010s I got refunds for several games that required you to log into the server to play and the server was shut down a few months later. That's why when I hear online required, I avoid the game entirely.
People seem to forget that CD Project Red said that cyber punk wasnt dont yet and needed more time
But they got pressured into releasing it anyway.
In case you haven't noticed yet, corporate apologies are disingenuous and mean nothing. Vote with your wallet instead because that is the only thing companies understand.
Kratos:We must be better
Game companies:Nah imma do my own thing
Rome total war. No games after that beats it. Many gamers today was not even born when the game was out. It was big. Worked awesome. And the first shogun. Rome total war released 2004 and first shogun released year 2000. Back in those days we had game stores everywhere. Hands on the best in the series.
By the end of the PS3/Xbox 360 era, PS3 was back ahead by a ton for me.
CDPR should have been number 1 on the list due to how messed up the game was and how much anticipation was behind it
Falcon struggling to say daedalic and assuage has got me rolling today 😂.
Still gonna think long and hard before I buy something CDPR related next time they release something new.
Most people have forgotten by now, but they really screwed their fanbase over and even the Polish government were investigating them over Cyberpunk.
So even tho the game is good now, they haven't earned my trust yet.