Why do people still buy games or order it release date.
They are always buggy as hell and in need of several patches.
Or your SLi'd machine is getting low fps. Ditch a card genius.
Or it sucks. Omgrlyitwasalljusthypeomgomg...
The same stories we here time and time again yet no one learns.
Games are worth £10 peeps. No more. And £1 if on EAs origin.
I bet most people here who bought this game on ps4 have played skyrim on pc and yet ordered the ps4 remaster at full price to play the same damn game again. Oh the logic.
Probably the same reason people go to a movie in the theaters on the release date. They've been waiting for a long time to see a particular movie, and want to be able to decide for themselves if it's a good flick or not, rather than letting some mouth breathing critic decide for them. The same applies to games in my opinion. I don't trust many critics, and I would rather spend my money to see if I think it's going to be something I'll enjoy. In this case, the NMS was a flop in my book. I took it back, and traded it for another game I've been wanting, and I couldn't be happier with the swap. No loss here.
And while I get that critics are an opinion and forming your own is smarter. So is understanding that hype sells crap, and crap is usually what they are selling. So why pay 10 times something's worth before a patch, a fix. Why be one of the plebs who don't have a clue or haven't learnt from every other freaking game, movie, album etc since the invention of the internets.
99℅ of humanity rides the special bus...