Um, mostly no. On games created and published by Microsoft, yes, I get a discount that is decent. Most games are not created or published by MS, so the majority of games I get are not at a discount.The few I can get discounts on are the MS made series of Forza, Halo, Gears of War, and such. For Xbox One that also included Ryse and Dead Rising 3. Things like Call of Duty, Titanfall, Madden, and the majority of games, I pay the same price as everyone else.
I mostly agree with you on this. Day 1 patches are pretty out of control The internet has just given dev's the ability to ship early and catch up between that time and when you get the game. The one plus to this is that when a big issue does show up they can fix it. Back in the day you'd just have a messed up game and have to start over.I would say you aren't being a beta tester though. yeah, big day 1 patch, but you aren't going to get to play it without that. They had to start printing discs with something on it, so they put some fairly stable build on a disc and started production. Then they continued and worked through fit & finish bugs. Note I'm saying "they" here, but really just talking about ever game developer out there whether they are writing for PC, consoles or mobile devices. Everything these days ships to the end user with testing done, but with the expectation that they'll be releasing fixes.
Yeah, but the internet didn't exist back then. Well, yeah it was there for the latter ones, but not to the extent or speeds that are mostly available that they are counting on to allow the patching to occur.People seem to want more and more games, but there are limited resources to provide them. Yeah, they must've tested the shit out of games for the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc, BUT those games were a lot smaller, the logic within them not nearly as complex, and they were not releasing a new game in a series every other year (even if they were they were again much smaller simpler games to complete over 2 years)
