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@Wipers wrote:
Not really – over the years I’ve played a number of new releases which have had patches available immediately. I think even BF1942 had a patch that came out a couple of weeks after release.
But it’s sheer bloody laziness on the part of the developers. It takes advantage of the fact that PC games are patchable, and glosses over the fact that this allows them to ship crap to start with. And when you get multiple patches out and also addons (e.g Armoured Fury, SF etc), then it gets bloody hard for an end user to get a decent install order together. It shifts the whole problem on to the poor bloody end user. For people like you & I who are (a) quite computer literate and (b) understand games and patches then it is annoying but not a stopper. But for many people its simply too much and they give up.
Compare this with shipping on and Playstation or Xbox – you simply cannot patch these as you need to recut the disks. So games on those platforms have some serious QA on them. Games companies save money on PC’s by having a lower standard for shipping games on that platform.
I’ve worked in the games industry for years – some of those at EA – and I know how these people think.
(Sorry – ended up being a rant ! 🙂
@itchinads wrote:
patch downloaded 🙂
Bloody good idea getting the patch now.
Anybody else find it simply gobsmacking that there is a patch before the game has even been released. Makes you think the QA process for cutting the gold disk was a bit wank, doesn’t it?
I can imaging the managers now:
Tech Director (aka TD) : Boss, we’ve still got shitloads of bugs. There’s so many in Devtrack that we’ve had to buy a new server for the bug database.
Dev Director (aka DD) : But my schedule says we are cutting Gold this Friday. Get your engineers to work late, while I talk to Commercial Director and get an extension.
TD (mutters under breath): But they’re already working 20 hours a day and have been for weeks…..what do you think is causing all the damn bugs…..Cut to DD walking into commercial directors office…
DD : Hi boss. We’ve hit a few snaggets in development. While my plan was great, those bloody engineers gave me wrong time estimates. So we need another few weeks before we cut gold.
CD
DD (gulping) : Erm – we didn’t run that long enough to fix the real bugs people found.
CD (vein on forehead still throbbing) : OK. Lets put out a patch.
DD : A patch available before the game has even been delivered??? That’s a record even for EA!! And I thought you didn’t want to look stupid?
CD : I just want my new Porsche….
DD : But I thought you didn’t want to look stupid?Personally I’m not bothered. I just ignore them. Jeez, our whole existence is surrounded by ads.
The slight irony here is that I bet all the people complaining about ads browse the web. I bet 90% of the sites you visit are stuffed with adverts. If, indeed, ads do “fuck with your head”, then you’re majorly fucked anyway. How many of you refuse to use Google because you get ads in the search results? I’m betting none.
Even our dear old Turks here is advertising Amazon indirectly with every post he makes…..Nobody has jumped down his throat for doing so.
As long as the data collected can’t identify me personally, and that the bandwidth consumed by pumping ads at me and sending my data back does not screw my gameplay, then I’m OK with it.
I’m finding the chat app to be a bit pants, to be honest. I start to type something, and it’s often 10-30 seconds before the text appears on my own screen (i.e. before I press Enter key).
Does it need a particular version of the Java runtime?
What? Waste even more time with you buggers!!! ?
Won’t let me in with “Lensman”, so I have signed up as “Lensman2”. Even though there’s only one of me.
Fan-bloody-tastic!!!
One point that struck a major chord with me was this bit about two laws.
Now, I wonder which UK politician or party will have the balls to says something similar here. The problem is that it would be interpreted by the PC -Brigade as anti-Islamic, which it isn’t at all.
Not seen it myself. But I know both this bug and the blacked-out Titan one were seen in the beta phase and so I assumed this was fixed before release.
Shall we run a sweepstake on how long before the first patch?
@RecoilUK wrote:
Hi m8
Ok I got schemes, but wtf am I supposed to do with it?
Search for “Bittorrent” 🙂
OK, I admit it, I wear dresses…..
Bloody hell – you’ll be joining the army next! Take Max with you next year and we can see if he is any good in the real-world.
Has anyone else noticed that the writing in red is a four letter word starting in C and ending in T. Was that what they thought of you Turks? 😈
@XDC_Wolf wrote:
lensman was giving me a butt battering the other day, and all I could do was scream in ecstatic agony!
All part of the service
…as was the butt battering…
@Mugworth wrote:
Apollo looks alot fatter in this season lol.
…which is a good thing. My wife has had a rather unhealthy obsession with him in the first two series.
🙄
