[imiric]

You don't pre-order, and you wait for reviews. But usually this is a problem of repeat offenders. Fool me once...

Nowadays with shovelware and AI slop, new studios can also release garbage, but you don't have to play on day 1. At some point you start trusting certain studios and publishers, which makes things a bit easier.

Trust is difficult to earn, but easy to lose. The problem is that many people keep trusting consumer-hostile companies even after they screw them over.

[wvenable]

> You don't pre-order, and you wait for reviews.

...you wait several years for them to not shut down the servers?

In the end, without government intervention, is there any hope that any game beign developed right now will be able to be played in 20 years? I don't think so.

[krige]

Lately it happens that the support is dropped within weeks of release.