Game breaking bugs/glitches are acceptable?

This is one of the most frustrating things of gaming for me, when something in the game is broken and it prevents you from completing a mission or quest and also prevents you from making progress and/or getting an achievement. No matter what you do it stays broken and you're completely at the mercy of the developers fixing this problem. Is this acceptable? I don't think so!

Game breaking bugs/glitches ruin a game?

Yes they absolutely ruin a game, even if it's pretty small and might seem funny at first it's possible that just a small bug or glitch can mess up everything. The amount of times I got stuck on just a pixel and had to reload a previous checkpoint which sometimes means losing an hour or so of gameplay is very annoying. But more recently I played the Hearts of Stone dlc for the Witcher 3 and found out that in a side quest a diagram doesn't show up in a chest, eventhough the chest is marked red (which means that it has a quest item inside it) and the area you have to look in only has this chest in it the diagram isn't in the chest. Which means I can't complete the quest and that means I can't get a certain achievement. It doesn't prevent me from finishing the story but it's still frustrating that more than a year after the dlc has been released this bug is still in the game and by the looks of it also stays in the game. In that way I think that even a small problem likes this ruins the experience for me, because if you can't complete a certain quest and not earn the achievement that comes with that then I feel robbed and that's not a good feeling! Maybe not everyone sees it this way but I absolutely hate wasting time on quests that I can't complete because of bugs and glitches.

Why do developers not fix these bugs and glitches?

Sometimes a game is so big that some bugs and glitches find their way in the game, this is frustrating for players but it happens. But the question is why don't these get fixed the moment they are found in the game even after launch? Well sometimes the developers just don't know and if players don't speak up then these bugs stay in the game and the problem isn't resolved. But sometimes players do let the developers know about the bugs and glitches and they won't take it seriously. They'll give you cheap answers like reload an earlier checkpoint or delete the game and then install it again. Even if you feel like going through all that trouble then that doesn't guarantee anything! Sometimes it's still bugged and you just wasted all that time for nothing! It might not be exciting work fixing bugs and glitches but I think that when you buy a game then that game and also the dlc should be good and if it's not then it's up to the developers to fix that. Unfortunately not all the developers see it that way and some are probably busy with other things and can't be bothered with the problems you have in the game. I guess the only way to make them listen is when you have enough people that complain with you so they can't ignore you anymore. Unfortunately that's not as easy as it might seem and there's still no guarantee that this means they actually fix the bugs and glitches in a game. I guess sometimes you just have to accept a loss and move on because the longer you waste time on a broken game the more you get frustrated and there are enough games out there that aren't broken and do have developers working on them to keep them in good performance!

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