XPac vs Patch

**Slug For A Butt** · 04-15-2007, 20:22

I'd like to know how many people feel cheated by CA for releasing an Expansion Pack (more money) before they have fixed the major bugs in M2TW in any way at all.
I personally feel cheated, we can all see now what they have been spending their time doing. And bugfixing obviously isn't number one on their list of priorities.

**Lusted** · 04-15-2007, 20:38

CA = business
Business = money to keep on going and to pay for future games
Money = main priority for a business.

So yes they're going to focus more dev time on the expansion than on patches.

**Slug For A Butt** · 04-15-2007, 20:43

But I'm not going to buy their X-Pac because I feel so conned. That = less money.

**Lusted** · 04-15-2007, 20:46

And there will be hundreds of thousands out there who will. The amount of people who visit forums, and find out about the bugs is a small minority.

**Slug For A Butt** · 04-15-2007, 20:49

And there will be hundreds of thousands that, for exactly the same reason, will not download any patches and will never come back to TW again because the original game is so broken.

**Lusted** · 04-15-2007, 20:51

I have a friend of mine who owns all the TW games, and he's downloaded a patch for them and he's quite happy. I've never met a person yet outside of the forums who's noticed a 10th of the bugs.

Most people just don't notice most bugs, and carry on playing quite happily.

And the 1.2 patch will fix most of the major bugs, if not all of them as we know from the leaked version. Hardly not fixing it.

**adembroski** · 04-16-2007, 02:48

Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt

I'd like to know how many people feel cheated by CA for releasing an Expansion Pack (more money) before they have fixed the major bugs in M2TW in any way at all.
I personally feel cheated, we can all see now what they have been spending their time doing. And bugfixing obviously isn't number one on their list of priorities.

Feel cheated? God no, every expansion CA has made for the TW series has been worth every penny spent on it, and this looks... by leaps and bounds... to be the best yet.

CA has never made me feel cheated... nobody has produced a medieval war sim on par with any of the TW games. Not even close. There are bugs, and some very annoying ones, but if you wanna see what happens when a company doesn't give a damn about it's game and it's fans, try picking up Madden sometime.

My experience as a hardcore Madden fan has me more than prepared to deal with an uncaring company, which CA is CLEARLY not.

PS: If worse comes to worse, the patch will be released WITH the expansion, so no, in the long run, nobody will be cheated.