Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-5904736-20190703021733

Let me start by saying that this was not written for this wiki but a Facebook group I'm in where the admin encouraged people to review RR3 with a 1-star rating to spite them for releasing the Andoird version 12 hours late (at the time they started complaining), which was still on release day. However, I do believe it will apply to some people on this wiki.

Let me tell you guys a story. I'm an Australian who primarily games on Xbox One.This means a number of things. For example, I have an intense desire to see the gaming industry in Australia flourish. Secondly, I can tell within seconds what the time is at Firemonkeys HQ in Melbourne because it's the same time here. Last, but not least, it has meant that I have had more than my fair share of waiting.

Just this last month, July 2019, this is what my release radar looked like. Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions was advertised as being released on the 13th. It was released the day after. Hitman 2: The Golden Handshake was advertised as being released on the 25th. It was released on the 26th. That same day, Car Mechanic Simulator was released. I had put my preorder in, paid for the game almost in full, and was expecting to be able to pick it up in the morning. I wasn't. I had to wait until the afternoon for the shipment to come in.

I've also had to wait large stretches of time for content to migrate over from other platforms. The game I mentioned before, Car Mechanic Simulator, is missing content from the PC version. Activision has (or had) an exclusivity deal with PlayStation. This meant that every DLC pack for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was two months late. Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane trilogy came to Xbox an entire year late.

The worst case of this is, ironically, another EA racing game, Burnout Paradise. Due to technical limitations at the time, the PlayStation version had way more achievements than the Xbox version. The remastered version that was released last year was their chance to fix that but did they? No, of course not. I have been waiting AN ENTIRE DECADE for that content to make its way to Xbox. so when you complain about getting the content on release day instead of the day before, yeah, you look like spoilt brats who are used to getting things a certain way and throw a tantrum when they don't. 