Honest question: was this game released too early?
Biased Answer: Yes, however, I feel 95% of modern games are released too early and mainly because of the direction modern technology has forced it to go. If you go back to 2000-2005 most games were purchased in a retail environment and therefore one had to make sure the game was stable and put on a hard copy. You didn't want to put a bug filled crash happy game on a disc as one would buy it and it would flop as most games didn't have an automatic update/patch feature or required hours to download on either a dial up or slow broadband/dsl connection.
Now days one can publish a game that is feature complete and is mostly stable call it gold and you make many players happy. If there are large bugs or un-balanced issues the company just can push out patches to fix it. Being many PC gamers have fairly decent Internet it's no big deal to download the update/patch.
So short answer is Yes, I believe this and most games are released too early and the Industry should go back to releasing a game that is feature complete and stable with all aspects of the game at release. Post release should focus DLC's, Expansions and balancing tweaks and minor issues.
I do, however, feel that this game is worth it and should be purchased now in it's gold form [e digicons]
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Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, people said the same thing about buggy releases: That publishers could get away with buggy releases because of patch accessibility, and that games that were made even earlier were much more feature-complete and less buggy because of necessity. The reality is that there never was a golden age when games were less bug-laden. It's been this way all along.
Daggerfall, for example, was released in 1996, and was very buggy. It also didn't flop as a consequence.
