Remember a time gone by when you’d buy a game on release day, and it just ‘worked’? I know, it was a long time ago. But it did happen, I promise.

I foolishly ventured out at midnight for the release of Black Ops – I was so disappointed to find the multiplayer wasn’t playable at all, and the single player only *just* ran with all the settings turned down.

It seems like these days a game is released in an unfinished state, and its often a .1 or a .2 version iteration before the game is near finished or working. Some might say we’re benefting from additional (and continual) development time, but I don’t agree.  I feel for the poor guy (or girl) who eagerly buys a game on release day, and plays through it before the game is patched.

They’re getting a sub-par experience to the guy who buys the game in a steam sale 8 months after release.   That’s not good for anyone!

Considering the Xbox version of most games come out in a far better state than the PC port of the same game, my question is – would you rather wait for a delayed release of a ‘working’ game, or should be just accept that we’ll be beta testing big releases from now on?

New video showing a game mode called ‘wager mode’ – looks to be a fun take on the predictable online first-person shooter series, however encouraging a ‘credit’ system will surely be a target for ‘boosters’ and hackers. . Here’s hoping that’s not the case!