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Re:Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017) by wackget on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:07PM (#27077363)
Shame the PC port was so terrible, and the developers flatly refused to fix or improve it. So much so that in the end a fan made a patch which fixed many of the issues.

If your game is so crappy that the customers have to make their own patches to fix it, then you don't deserve to be supported as a game developer.

P.S. the game also shipped with Denuvo DRM, and the fan-made patch mod also had its own DRM/piracy checks.

That's why this game will never get my money.

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Re:Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017) by Ambrosia on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:22PM (#27077601)
That's on the publishers, Square Enix, who didn't want to play the developers to patch the game. They seem to have changed their mind recently as the patch is now in development for the steam version.
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Re:Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017) by Hamuko on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:51PM (#27077981)
Didn't the Steam version recently get a patch?
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Re:Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017) by dvlsg on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:54PM (#27078016)
No, but they announced they're working on it.
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Re:Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017) by brobinson on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:21PM (#27079870)
It's likely they did this because it shows up as an alert in Steam for everyone who owns Automata, and they'd see that Replicant was about to be released.
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