Latest Update on patch 1.2

[Nebuchadnezzar]

The analogy with the car industy doesn't work, if the car industry was like the pc gaming industry if you took the car back because of faults and went for another car, they'd all have faults!

Fortunately for consumers cars are subject to certain safety standards as well as consumer standards and a manufactureres warranty. Software games are not required to meet any consumer standards and come with a near useless very limited warranty that more idemnifies the developer than guarranties the game.

Metacritic disagrees with you. When a game can score an 88 out of the box, it's clearly good enough to be released. Sure there's a bunch of stuff that we've all found out are bugs, but as people have pointed out, a great many of them are very difficult to notice when you play the game unless you know exactly what to look for. I think as a result of hunting down all these bugs, we've all drifted a bit toward the negative side of things. We're so focused on what's wrong with the game that we're missing what's right with it! All in all this is a great game even without the much-anticipated fixes of the 1.2 patch, and frankly I'm quite happy that I've had it to play and tinker with for the past few months: it's been undoubtedly far better than most other games that would've filled that time instead.

It doesn't matter what a online/magazine game review scores. Its the end user that ultimately decides its true score.

I've found MTW2 a very bitter and frustrating pill to swallow that falls short of my expectations. Even without the crashes, graphics glitches, mouse/keyboard problems its very difficult not to notice the myriad number of bugs that are present in the game. Not quite gamebreaking but disappointing nevertheless.

Would I have liked to see a more polished product released? Of course - but that doesn't take away from the value of what WAS released. A 3/4 finished work by a master painter is still sublime when compared to a completed work by a novice, especially when the master is already working on finishing it for you.

For a driver, a ferrari without an engine certainly does not have greater value then a running car.

The finish of a product is a reflection of the pride of one has with their work whether novice or pro.

Unbeatable AI, new improved diplomacy, pleased with the finish of the product are words used to promote MTW 2. We were promised a day 1 patch that took a month and a day. Now I am being told that a new patch is in the making with many of the same fixes that were supposed to have been fixed in the first patch but were'nt. They took my money in November 2006 but its now mid march 2007 and still no patch. I have every reason to be angry but most of all I am appalled at the level of customer service I have received.