Buying Software used to have more quality control in the days before "investor driven deadlines" and "day 1 patches" were a thing.
Bad games. Unplayable even ? Plenty. Cyberpunk2077. NoMansSky etc.
So you think to yourself ? "Ha ! That. Will never happen to me. I only buy X !"
And then. it happens.
So let me list my own "Failure list".
2026/08/04 - Atelier Yumia (Platform: Switch2. (Edition: Ultimate,+ Switch2Upgrade)
Update -2026-Aug-07-
Wow #KoeiTecmo replied
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your inquiry.
We understand that your issue may be that the workbench has been removed. Please try the following steps to see if you can place it again.
[Steps]
1. While Inside the Atelier, press and hold the "L Button" or "R Button" and select "building" from the Radial Menu.
2. Press the "Y Button" to open the furniture list.
3. Select the workbench from the list and place it.
First of: I did indeed wait until this game dropped in price, so I did feel safer going in... And this was over a year after it released for the original switch. and soonthereafter it received a patch (just in June. So two months ago from time of writing)
The Issue ? You play the game. Everything works sofar. You go through the games story. Enjoy the characters. Find the gameplay and ways to be able to jump across walls fun.
Until. You are tasked to return back to BASE to "build" something with the crafting workbench
Sure lets do that.
And.?
The workbench. The object REQUIRED to advance the story is.
GONE
Now what ?
Now what ? Well. Contact support - obviously. But others had the same issue (2). A YEAR AGO.
So the question arises:
What do these companies do, that force you to get a overpriced "ULTIMATE" Edition of a game, just so you can have a pretty dress ?
Who knows ? It appears they certainly have no time for lots of bugfixing or even reading on, let alone consider checking the bug reports other than
"We will look into it, kthxbye"
And the end consumer ? Can they ask for a refund ?
Depends:
Steam: Yes
Sony: Mostly no
Nintendo: Very likely no.
I personally don't want a refund. But it is very annoying that something that costs good money - even a YEAR after the release,
is still in such sorry state.
Depending on this I might consider blacklisting some devs for future purchases.
Life is too short to wait for patches or chase developers and help them with THEIR DUTY.
...
First world problems ? Maybe.
However that is exactly the mentality most software firms have nowadays.
It's deplorable.
And the user cannot be expected to "read up on a game intensifely" until it becomes clear this will be a buggy mess or not.
Edit: You CAN fix this yourself by L (Edit mode) Build Mode Y (list inventory) => Select workbench => place it
So basically everytime you wipe evErYthing, it wipes the workbench too. Great Thinking KoeiTecmo !