Originally Posted by Grey_Fox
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Originally Posted by Grey_Fox
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You may not care about war, but war cares about you!
Im thinking hopefully sega will mean that many patches will be brought out, i mean most decent games have patches out for them all the time. I mean you cant expect to get it right first time. CA hopefully will be forced to bring out more patches. Though i doubt it as EA have excellent support for alot of its games, activision im not so sure about not got many, if any, games published by them other than MTW.
And the fact that they're are debating whether or not to release a patch when its obvious there are so many bugs really disapoints me
Last edited by manbaps; 10-14-2005 at 22:58.
You do realise that Activision refused to fund the 2.01 patch for Viking Invasion, but the developers went ahead and made it anyways working on their own time without pay, right? You also do realise that Activision is one of the biggest games publishers in the world and that countless titles have been crippled due to their brand of customer support?Originally Posted by manbaps
There's been bugger all bugs found so far.Originally Posted by manbaps
Last edited by Grey_Fox; 10-14-2005 at 23:10.
I hate Activison patch policies from times of Call to Power 2.
Oh, boy that game really needed some patching.
BUG-FIXER, an unofficial patch for both Rome: Total War and its expansion pack
I did not say Activision's policy was good i was saying i have had little experience of them. EA on the other hand i have, though i guess there were enough patches for STW i found it quite playable.
As for "bugger all bugs found so far" i think that is quite debatable.
You were biten by that game too, huh? I think our own WesW, of MTW MedMod fame, did a good job trying to salvage the game but I could not stomach it. It could have been great, instead it was just brain dead. People who complain about RTWs AI really should have tried that.Originally Posted by player1
The only other game with a higher potential to achievement ratio I've encountered was Napoleon 1813. That game could have been better than any TW series, but instead was just unplayable. (I quit in disgust when my French Imperial Guard marched off to join the Russians.)
I have to say I never experienced major problems with BF1942, but the fact that they let the BF2 demo (and I would assume the full version) go out with so many horrible bugs and the new drivers requirement more than negates that IMHO.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
At least, it had good scripting language.Originally Posted by Simon Appleton
Although some functions were bugged and never fixed.
BUG-FIXER, an unofficial patch for both Rome: Total War and its expansion pack
EA isn't that good either.Originally Posted by manbaps
If the game doesn't sell then they refuse to patch it even when the low sales are because of the bugs.
And another lovely tactic is to release expansion pack that contain these fixes thus making you pay for a patch something that SEGA cleverly avoided by releasing 1.3.
But as other people have said, SEGA needs good PR and so far they are on the right track IMO.
EA has a horrible patching policy. Generals obviously needed massive multiplayer patching (it lagged with eight people no matter what, the internet play is atrocious because of stability/connection issues) but it never recieved patching that fixed those problems. I can't think of a game at the moment that EA has released and given significant patching support, but there could be a couple.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Well, BF1942 had a great support.Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
That's because it sold well.Originally Posted by KSEG
BF:Vietnam didn't get enough tho.
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