Some unlikely 2021 predictions

Posted Jan 9, 2021 6:51 UTC (Sat) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604)
In reply to: Some unlikely 2021 predictions by NYKevin
Parent article: Some unlikely 2021 predictions

> The gaming industry already does this at the software level. For now, they have not yet realized that they can charge for the day 1 patch, but it's only a matter of time IMHO.

I'm not sure about that. So far the software world has been mostly untouched by it, but you have a legal right to get a product that is in working order when you pay for it. At the moment, software quality issues are often seen as force majeure, an accident. Even the language used is often invoking that image, "computer bug", "data leak" and so on. What it really is is often human error. And there are real costs associated - I'm mostly talking about the b2b sphere here but what would happen if everyone who bought a buggy video game demanded a refund?

Some unlikely 2021 predictions

Posted Jan 9, 2021 12:22 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (1 responses)

> what would happen if everyone who bought a buggy video game demanded a refund?

It depends. How buggy is "buggy"?

Some unlikely 2021 predictions

Posted Jan 9, 2021 17:30 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

"It only runs on a clean install"?

I bought a Terry Pratchett game for Win95 - I don't think I got much further than the first few "rooms" whatever they were. And inasmuch as I could find reports for it, it was very temperamental about the hardware, and advice was "re-install 95, install the game, don't install anything else". Not good news if you don't have a spare PC ...

Cheers,
Wol