Fixing Total War: The Bigger Picture

[rich19]

This is my view, a view shared by many others.

Why is every Total War game overwhelmed with bugs and play balance issues? Why are gamers frustrated with CA?

Hah, stop whining. If it was overwhelmed, you wouldn't be able to play it at all. I personally am able to play the game and find that almost all units are bug free, and nearly everything works as it should.

Because CA has no immediate financial incentive to invest manpower in "released" products.

And yet we are on patch version 1.2. Kinda defeats your argument.

Bug fixes don't sell games. Two years from now when CA announces their Next TotalWar Game, players will be a) drooling over carefully staged screenshots, b) drooling over bogus feature lists, and c) drooling over rave reviews written by crackheads.

You need a working game to carefully stage screenshots. It is illegal to advertise features that are not in the game.

And when the can of worms is revealed, players are horrified.

You mean you are horrified. I personally, like thousands of others, will be enjoying the game.

The gaming community demands increasingly complex and lengthy campaigns, which inherently requires more tweaking and feedback to get things dialed in.

And we get them. Do you know how many campaigns are going to be in factions?



I am sick of hearing people whining about how the game is filled with bugs and is unbalanced. How can you possibly expect every bug to surface in the beta testing period if some bugs take months of careful combing of the game by a forum viewed by hundreds? I was suprised when viewing the bug list - I hadn't noticed any when playing myself. But then, I wasn't specifically looking for any.