It's not that bad. Software is more complex to test than the common toaster, and if we wanted to have a completely bug-free game (if that's even practically feasible), we'd have to wait for years and it would be much more expensive.
The silver lining is that the game is still being worked on, and the developers take the opportunity to modify it according to the feedback they get, which we can't do with the toaster.
(Hm, maybe it's a bad example and there are Android toasters that get patched after release)
I disagree with this. I was very young, but I still caught a glimpse of gaming before the DRM era, when everyone played games in cartridges, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, etc. Even in Cassettes, previous to my own gaming times. There was a quality standard even with a much poorer technology and tools, and the games were all released in fully playable status.
Once in a blue moon, you would hear of a game that had a game-breaking bug, and the company behind it was massively shamed and forced to refund anyone who had bought the game, which they promptly did taking a massive hit to their reputation.
Now the standard is, having no standards. It's fair game to knowingly release buggy games, sometimes with several dozen accounts of game-breaking bugs (ie, both Pathfinder games) and because we have no standards, and our brains have been washed to accept this no-standard new status quo, you even see people actually happy, championing the idea of "Oh my, they are patching a lot, they really are a good company!".
To me, that doesn't cut it. I know it does to others, I know it's impressive for some people that a company would push out 6 version upgrades of a game within one month of release. Easily impressionable, I'd say, but alright. Suppose they were fine with paying for a product that was purposedly given to them in a broken condition just because it was convenient to them to take their money at that time, right? It's all fair when you have no standards.
To me, what would be impressive is to have no version upgrades within one month, because the game didn't need it, and that is the kind of game that I will praise and support. To the scammers that dishonestly take my money to fit their financial windows while well knowing it's not a finished product, they will get my most profound critique, and generally, everyone around me will know well what my opinion is on, whether they have standards enough to see that they are being scammed or not.
