"Nobody cares about a junk game that goes out on time." When the founder of CDPR, Malchin Iwinsky, uttered this sentence, even he could not have imagined that it would become a joke from players in the future.
From the semantics of the sentence itself, it is actually not too much of a problem. If you have to choose between on-time release and game quality. Most players, presumably, will choose the latter.
On the contrary, in order not to disrupt the original plan, some game companies have made hasty decisions about unfinished games. A few days ago, Konami, which just announced the update to pro evolution soccer 2022 v1.0.0, admitted this in the announcement:
"We want to bring a new football gaming experience to fans around the world, showing unprecedented authenticity. To this end, we went through a two-year development period, but we initially paid less attention to quality in order to launch the game in time. Many players have been disappointed by this and have clearly expressed their dissatisfaction, which we can fully understand. ”
Pro Evolution Soccer 2022 is currently one of the lowest-rated games on Steam, or even one of them. The 8% praise rate will probably not be broken by works for a long time in the future.
As early as the beginning of the game's launch, Pro Evolution Soccer 2022 was criticized by players for optimization issues, bugs, players' ghost animal expressions, and poor feel. This is not unrelated to Konami's change of the Pro Evolution Soccer series to free-to-play games from this generation.
The good news is that Konami has at least not given up on this IP, and is still under pressure to update the game.
Yesterday's "Pro Evolution Soccer 2022" update announcement shows that the game will have new elements and instructions after the update, such as "strong passes" on the offensive end, "pressure on the defensive end", "shooting trajectory" added to the game in terms of feel, "tactical evolution" in terms of game content, and so on.
In addition, the mobile game version of "Pro Evolution Soccer 2022" is also under simultaneous development, which shows that Konami has long-term operation plans. Otherwise, they would not choose to publicly admit their mistakes in the development stage at this time.
As a series of games that are updated every year, Pro Evolution Soccer has been the benchmark for competing with FIFA for more than a decade. Players and the media have given it a good rating, and the two works have been constantly improving and breaking through in the competition.
But pro evolution soccer 2022 has changed too many things by canceling the buyout system, not only the suspension of the Pro Evolution Soccer series, but also the "FIFA" of the EA company next door. In the past six months, there have been rumors that EA will rename FIFA to EA Sports Football Club, and even the trademark was registered last year.
The main purpose of this is that EA is dissatisfied with the high naming fees set by FIFA every year. At a conference in March, EA President Andrew Wilson made this statement: "The only benefit we get through licensing is the four letters on the game box. ”
With Pro Evolution Soccer withdrawing from the stand-alone market, EA doesn't want to continue to pay hundreds of millions of naming fees every year to buy the four letters "FIFA". The competition between Konami and EA may only appear in the mobile versions of Pro Evolution Soccer 2022 and EA Sports Football Club in the future.