An interesting development

[Grey_Fox]

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We have been made aware of racist abuse and other offensive topics in the chat areas of the lobbies for Total War and Total War:Barbarian Invasion online play. Since the lobbies are community areas to support the enjoyment of the games, we regard such comments as unacceptable and restricting other users from enjoying the services.

Since it is techically not possible to ban the offending users from the lobbies, we regret that we will be turning off the chat facility in the lobbies to ensure that this forum is not used further for indecent topics and users do not become offended by such behaviour. Please note that this board for arranging online battles will remain active at this stage.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this action but we hope that you will appreciate that our aim is to provide an enjoyable gaming environment for everyone.

I'd like to thank all the [This word has been edited out by Rob The Bastard as he deemed the word used to be profanity... a PM was sent to Grey_Fox asking that the word be removed but there was no response in the time frame allowed... I tell you there is nothing but work!, work!, work! around here. I return you to the regularly scheduled harangue]so online that made this possible, they have apparently achieved their aims of ruining TW online.

I'd also like to say that this would have been avoidable if CA had created a ban/ignore function that actually worked permanently, instead of breaking after either logging off or coming out from a game. This action is like burning down a house to kill one or two fleas.

[Alrowan]

CA's own incompetence finally led to thier downfall, MP TW has officially been destroyed

[AquaLurker]

Good job shogun, you just buried RTW MP for me...

If thats all CA is capable of... their incompetence is legendary.

1.)1.3 memory leak and lag in mp
2.) worthless AI
3.) shutting down lobby chat...
4.) patch 1.3 = downgrade of 1.2
5.) bad mp features
6.) bad PR


What next?

"Originally Posted by The Shogun

Because we the CA staff are bad progammers therefore we can't make MP RTW a smooth game, produce good AI, stop racist remarks in multipayer, excel at lagging there for we have to "convince" SEGA to buy us over.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by these action to convenience our incompetence. But we hope that you will appreciate that our aim (though we don't really care) is to provide an "enjoyable" working environment for everyone in CA. Sorry for all those gamers who had bought our crap."



I would like to see them post that for once...

[Duke John]

This is stupid! How are people now supposed to give passwords to each other?

I know now that I won't buy the next TW unless CA seriously improves his act.

[Lord Adherbal]

long live Ensemble Studios & Blizzard Entertainment.

[Wishazu]

long live Ensemble Studios & Blizzard Entertainment.

Thats what i was thinking untill i actually played AoE III in my opinion the most boring game of the AoE series

[Jochi Khan]

This is stupid! How are people now supposed to give passwords to each other?

That is just the 'tip of the iceberg'. So now we can no longer set up a game where we agree...which map...we attack or defend...who is playing with who...which players are going to be in which team...who shall we invite etc etc.
This attitude by CA is nothing short of rubbish.

Had they not ruined the lobby by going 'backwards' and undoing all the work that was put in to make it 'workable' a lot of these problems could have been sorted by the players. (the ban/ignore option worked before, why was it changed?)

I can only hope that they see the foolishness in their decision and reinstate the chat lobby.

What happened to their option to withdraw/invalidate the CD Key, which would have made it impossible for the troublemakers to log on to the Lobby?
Chatmonitor was there to witness who they are?

If nothing is done this will be goodbye to MP Total War. It will be impossible to play the game this way. Or are CA only concerned with the marketing and sales of their product?

Jochi

[Loinnreach]

Communication is possible with private message option and in hosted game. I'm wondering if this would be now disabled as well.


To CA:

You have heard a lot of suggestions, what to improve, what to add in upcoming TW - befor RTW was out.

People have paid for your product and now you are disabeling one option of it, becaus you have not listened to almost none of the suggestions when you have been developing RTW which might be a solution for this situation.

You have obligations toward customers who 'support' your products, to ensure them best possible quality for the product you are offering on the market.

Your actions are unresponsible.

As far I know as well, those who write such things in lobbies as they do, can be BANNED.

Why to 'punish' all MP players becaus of few?

Ensemble Studios & Blizzard Entertainment

You should check their community forums.