Wich makes it confusing for people that still believe version numbers are logical or are around long enough to remember the days when 1.0 ment a program was ready and not early acces/beta/alpha.Of course, is this stil Alpha, "V1" title is just a formality for releases on consoles.
Games also did not release in a complete mess back then. I could name 5 hyped games that was released with missing content. Game development was easier back then.
I agree. But this is a consequence. The rules that the platform holders or publishers have come up with are not perfect and work in the wrong direction, forcing others to come up with workarounds and confuse themselves and users.
Back when?
This means platformholders need to be confronted with those rules and rules should evolve in the right direction. Workarounds are the way of least resistance and will keep the wrong rules in place. Note that we, as users, also have a responsibility. If we don't speak up and just keep on buying nothing will ever improve.
Released games usually means finished game being sold. Maybe I sold have added fully Released.
Yep, I have been playing since A6 and I have never had this happen. 1000+ hours and NEVER lost anything. So.... That must be on your game config or mods my guy. If the game updates and your mods aren't compatible, this can certainly happen.
A complete updated version with new features or a remaster. Not a sequel per definition. Often also the point you had to buy a new license and support for previous version got limited.
Maybe not, but you're going to have even more people who believe it is a finished game. You are welcome to your opinion that version numbers are irrelevant and that people shouldn't have any preconceptions about what the version numbers mean, but that doesn't change how a very large number of players think. I don't think there has ever been any poll or study of players large enough regarding what they think of version numbers in games to know what the majority of players think, but I am fairly certain that more than half think that if a game is 1.0 (and definitely 2.0+) it is a completed game. Yes, there may be updates afterwards or even content added afterwards, and there may be DLC and expansions, but the game itself is complete. Now, if this game was stated to have only the features that we have now for release and then they were going to add new stuff in later updates/DLC, that would sit differently for players. But they've clearly said that the finished game will have specific features that aren't in the game yet. That's a different thing than if the game wasn't intended to have something like bandits for the completed game but would add them later as an update. At that point, players accept that it's a finished game and 1.0+ makes sense to them. But when it's so very clearly incomplete, a lot of players don't see 1.0+ as making any sense.
Yeah... Modern days disease: If you don't like the reality, create your own
Self-inflicted wound by TFP.