10 Recent Video Games With Disastrous Launches You Didn't Realise Got Fixed

Free-to-play open-world RPG Wuthering Waves was hugely anticipated when it launched last May, having more than 30 million pre-registered users, though the general sentiment is that the game's launch period was a catastrophe.

The title was marred by performance issues, random crashes, and players not even being able to launch the game at all. Hilariously, some even discovered that they could access unreleased content by simply moving their system clock forward a few weeks.

Developer Kuro Games did promptly apologise to players, though things got even worse when a hastily released patch intended to fix bugs ended up removing the game audio entirely.

Kuro kept plugging away, though, and in early January released the game's huge 2.0 update to coincide with its PS5 launch, which in addition to providing innumerable quality-of-life fixes, added a new region, more weapons, story elements, events, and more.

Granted, it's much easier to be forgiving of a game's flaws when you haven't paid a penny for it, but even so, the marketplace is so jam-packed with quality free-to-play games these days that a rough launch can instantly make players look elsewhere.