I mean does it suck? Well yeah cuz im taking the 8th and 9th off(i technically make my own schedule so i lts whatever) and was excited to start at 9pm on the 7th(pst here) after work.
We’ve literally waited an extra year in additiln to the 5 year wait that was already weird as it is. Waiting another 13 hours, of which about 10 hours will be passed via sleeping and cardio training, it its thst big a deal for me honeslty. Besides even if i wanted to get a physical copy anyway, my gamestop doesnt even do “modnoght launches” anymore and id have to wait until they open at 11am anyway.
No, they don’t. Tons of games do this. I buy almost literally every new game that comes out and it’s extremely common not to be able to play them at midnight. A recent example would be Jurassic World 2, which didn’t launch until 5PM my time and is an entirely singleplayer game. This is not a remotely uncommon occurrence.
Every major release I’ve bought the past 10 years unlocked at midnight. Hell, Gears 5 unlocked BEFORE the disc people got theirs at midnight. There should be standards in the 21st century., These idiots want people to adopt a “digital future” then screw over the people willing to buy digital while disc people get theirs first. People need to stop giving these idiots a pass for this garbage.
They need to monitor… the game? You understand how builds work, right? Each build needs to be monitored when released, in case there are new drastic bugs or people are unable to download it or any number of problems. Plus, they’re gonna want to collect lots of user data from their launch day. All of that is game development 101.
When people get off work is critical because the majority of Halo’s audience is in the working class, high school to young adult age range. It makes a big difference, and if you spend some time researching the game development industry you’ll see this is a common theme. Releasing at a target time for your target audience is an elementary concept.
The disc version can be released at midnight because you don’t have anything to download, so they don’t need to monitor it.
Also, I say again, even if it is so that they can get their morning coffee as you say; who cares? I don’t know about you, but I think it’s pretty petty and ridiculous to expect a whole company of workers to stay up half the night or get up ridiculously early, on launch day (which will no doubt be a hectic day for them anyway), just so that the minority audience who have nothing better to be doing at midnight can play the game less than a day sooner.
How do you NOT see the problem? People get the damn disc at midnight. There’s no excuse for making digital customers wait until the middle of the afternoon to start campaign.
surprised i didnt make more mistakes honestly