It seems Konami are taking a leaf out of Polytron’s book, (that’s the arseholes behind Fez), by giving the finger to Xbox 360 customers who purchased the Silent Hill HD Collection by refusing to patch frame rate and audio syncing issues that have plagued the game since release.
Konami’s claims the reason behind the decision is down to “technical issues and resources”.
Well we know that’s bollocks because they’ve already released a patch for the PS3 version…
As Online Editor of MCV and angry Fez customer, Ben Parfitt says:
“The fact remains – both Polytron and Konami entered into publishing agreements on Xbox 360 knowing of potential patching costs. It seems hard to excuse their decision to leave consumers who have purchased the game with sub-standard product simply because it would stretch the budget.”
Ben is bang on the money.
Shameful that the industry has now reached the point where this treatment of customers along with a blatant disregard for regulations put in place by UK Trading Standards, (regulations that are there to protect consumer rights), is considered as acceptable behaviour.
What happened with fez then? I bought and loved that game on xbla. Got near end but didn’t bother completing it.
http://www.rosetintedgamers.com/2012/07/19/broken-fez-will-remain-broken-forever/
…and then to add insult to injury it turned out Fish was lying.
http://www.rosetintedgamers.com/2012/07/23/something-about-phil-fish-again/
I nearly posted this news myself.
No other industry would be allowed to get away with this sort of abhorrent behaviour, else there would be be a MASSIVE OUTCRY in the news & tabloids.
Why the hell does it happen and is allowed to happen with games?
For me, the bigger issue is why the fuck broken games are allowed to be released AT ALL?
Fixing a broken game is like padlocking the door after the horse has bolted.
I fully understand that niggles can often go un-noticed until games are released to a larger audience but why wasn’t it like this in the 8/16/32/64-bit era?
I don’t want to hear any bollocks about games being more advanced these days either. Technology evolves and things move with the times. Mega Drive & SNES games were just as advanced as today’s games are.
This practice is something that’s happened from the Xbox 360 & PS3 generation and unless we stamp it out, it will continue to happen.
It’s all down to laziness and greed.
All publishers want to do is get their faulty product out the door. If it’s too faulty, they’ll fix it some-time down the line, except now they’re not even doing this.