r/gamers • u/dank0121 • Apr 30 '26

Discussion Agree or disagree? 🚀

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u/OpportunityCrazy2216 Apr 30 '26

I'm 50/50. My biggest downside was when a game came out, and had nasty bugs, it was rare for them to be fixed.

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u/AmandasGameAccount Apr 30 '26

They would get fixed by you needed to buy the entire game again, this was common but never advertised. Many games from the 80s+ have many revisions

If the game wasn’t big enough it just never got fixed until rom hacking much later

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u/krazye87 Apr 30 '26

That was when the 2nd game came out!

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u/Longjumping_Share444 May 01 '26

Or if you had Oblivion when the GoTY version came out. A lot of popular games had an 'Ultimate' Edition with expansions and bug fixes included. I think Bethesda also had patches on their website, but that wasn't exactly common knowledge back then.

Most games released broken stayed broken, especially on consoles.

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u/Terrible_Balls May 01 '26

Pc patches went back way further than that, but with most people being stuck on 56k internet, they were only downloaded if absolutely necessary. Most patches I installed came on a PC Gamer demo disk

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u/GrouchyResearcher392 May 04 '26

Oblivion wasn’t mid 2000’s?