Value and Conclusion

So it comes to this. See the screenshot above? The left and right characters are the gaming industry releasing broken/unfinished games at launch, and us gamers are the one being sandwiched in the middle for being misled out of our hard earned cash. I figured that most games like this suffer from first and second day launch problems but even in my last session, almost a week after launch, I jumped online for several casual and ranked matches. I won several of them but after every single match, I got some sort of server error and NONE of my wins or progress was recorded whatsoever. Not to mention, several matches, people quit when they were going to lose and there was no credit given to me and no punishment to the quitter. This makes would could be an incredibly tense and fun game, next to pointless.

I keep trying to give this game so many chances and I really, really wanted to master it, love it, and compete somewhat competitively online. As it stands, all the bugs, connection issues, and lack of game modes is just plain unacceptable for an online, competitive focused game. Not only that, the single player content is extremely sparse for a $60 title. We as gamers deserve better. We as consumers deserve much better for our gaming dollar. As a game reviewer, I honestly cringe at scoring games like this. I see huge wasted potential and when the game works, it feels fantastic but that is so far and in between, there is just no excuse. This game may be fixed in six months from now, who knows, but as it stands, it's beautiful yet broken mess.