8 Ways All Video Games Are Becoming Exactly The Same

6. They Don't Work Without A Day-One Patch

Assassin's Creed Unity glitches
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The days of picking up a game at the store, putting it into a console and playing immediately are long gone. Not only have lengthy installs killed the immediacy of gaming, but day-one patches have meant that even if you could start playing straight away, there's a good chance that the game itself probably wouldn't even work.

Before online gaming took off, the game that shipped on a disc was the final version that players received, and if it happened to have a game-breaking bug then the developers couldn't do anything about it.

Now though, the ability to constantly update titles has meant that studios have the opportunity to fix problems long after their initial release.

Consequently, with the knowledge that they can push a game out and fix it later, most contemporary releases ship with bugs and mistakes that are remedied with a day-one patch. Unfortunately that's meant games are buggier than ever, and buying day-one isn't always the best option.

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