The new patch update 1.05

To have something put onto a Nintendo or Sega cartridge meant your game went through a lot of testing by Nintendo and Sega back in the old days which included checking that they approved of the content.

Guys like Jon Burton(Gamehut on YouTube) tell tails about some of the fakery that went on to force a game through Sega’s QA

85% of all AAA, AA, A titles that have release for the last 8 years have always been incomplete pieces of crap from anywhere of a minimum 1 month from release up until like the case of Anthem, its inevitable death.

Thats the patch Culture he speaks of. If you deny the fact that developers have been releasing unfinished unpolished games for almost the last decade, then you are just deluding yourself. The only ones that have released relativly un broken games have been your GTAs and First Party Console games with single player focus.

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They have been releasing unfinished and bugged games since I first had a machine back in 1982.

In the early days games didn’t get fixed or you had to patch it yourself for computer rather than console games. Stonkers, Jet Set Willy and Elite (Z80) versions were all totally broken on release, the first was never fixed, fans patched the 2nd and you had to send your original tape or disk away for the third and then wait 6 weeks in the replacement media)

Even in the early 2000s console companies had proper QA as patching was not possible and multi month release delays were normal as games companies were simply told no release till it’s fixed.

But on the PC, Amiga ST the patch culture was already in place for 1992

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Why will it be removed I done nothing wrong

Hey Gazz, that comment you see above was jakel removing his comment from the thread. You have nothing to worry about :slight_smile:

Nothing like it is now. Not at the price you pay. The only patching that was done back in the day was when you ported PC games to the Amigas, Apples, Macs, and Commodore and vise Versa. Very Rarely was a game completely broken, those games did not exist and if they did it wasnt for long. See E.T. Atari.

As for patching, there was no such thing in 92 The Internet was not prevalent enough nor did it have the architecture to facilitate such usage. The games you have mentioned were not AAA titles nor did they cost 49 USDs. Elite had multiple versions for Multiple Machines that and not all of them worked. Elite was the only quasi popular game you had mentioned. In 92 they were not connecting via dialup and patching games. The game was broken or it wasnt. The post office is not patching.

There is no comparison. Games are released unfinished and people just pay for them. Imagine if you bought a home and 2 weeks after you bought it, the bank comes in and annexes 2 of the rooms and wont let you in them any longer.

I’m all for the discussion of updates and the history of gaming updates, but this isn’t the place for it under a bug report :slight_smile: Feel free to make a new topic in the off-topic or general discussion areas! It looks like we’ve gone off topic here and there isn’t any more relevant information to add to this specific bug report.

@Gazzthegamer thank you for the post as it had some good conversation in it, and thanks to all who participated! I’ll be locking the thread.

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