&gt; A close cousin to crowdfunding is the trend of pre-releasing games before they are finished.<p>This has contributed to a disturbing trend of actually releasing games before they are finished.  AAA titles have been released in the past couple of years that should have been delayed several months to be fixed and polished first.  Batman: Arkham Knight was so terrible on PC that all stores offered no-questions refunds, and even stopped selling the game altogether until it was patched.  Fallout 4 committed the cardinal sin of tying physics to framerate, so people with high-end gaming machines are actually experiencing more bugs and issues than most, unless they cap their framerates.