Quote (Itadakimasu @ Wed, Jun 11 2008, 04:11pm)
Too bad your opinion is meaningless mr 40%. Re-read my above post, I mention 2 very annoying bugs that happen way too often. If you want to keep telling yourselves (you and bubba) that the game is perfect the way it is, fine do it, I couldn't care less, and I'm quite sure you guys don't give a flying fuck to what I think either. I'm not going to be an asshole just to prove a point, so I'll just stop posting after this, it's not like I'm gonna win money for arguing with you both, so let's just drop it. We are a very small community on JSP, and it's no good if we start behaving most of the people on D2 forums.
And yes, I am unfamiliar with coding, but that's no excuse to have a game not work right. Can't even compare these, but was HL2 released with any bugs at all? Any game crashes? CS:S? Maybe they were, but they were quickly fixed, and these fixes didn't bring 10 more bugs for each time they fixed.
Let's just drop it, like bubba said, it's not a patch that was released on the live servers with bugs.
I've yet to encounter any of those bugs, so they're obviously not as common as you're making them out to be. I'm by no means saying the game is perfect, there's still a hell of a lot of balancing that needs to be done on the live servers, but hopefully 2.0 will adress that, once it's gone through a vigorous testing phase.
No, it's not an excuse, but that's what happens. Changing one parameter has an effect on many things, and most of the time it's impossible to predict what that change will be untill a bug pops up, it happens with every single game out there.
Quote (Icelord700 @ Wed, Jun 11 2008, 04:35pm)
you both make great points but im going with itadaki. FSS has taken a long time to fix their bugs. at first i was ok with it but i ended up quitting the game because of the bugs and how many things were still needed in the game for me to be interested. Age of Conan came out with a great release. yes some things are still buggy but its their release it hasent been out very long and they are making 2 patches a week now to fix everything. much faster then what it took FSS to fix all their bugs. now an upside to all of this is HGL is online so they can fix everything and the game has a lot of potential to be a great game but it hasent met everything (imo) that was said it was going to meet.
theres my 10 cents.
AoC had a hugely bugged release, and there's reports online of 30% of people dropping their subs because the game is too buggy or because they just don't like it. AoC has a huge amount of problems, just go read the official forums and you'll see what I mean.
Quote (Itadakimasu @ Wed, Jun 11 2008, 04:41pm)
Oooo Age of Connan!!! I pm'd you some questions man! I'm thinking about playing it, I'm not sure how much $ it is/month. But I also have no idea if my comp can run it :X
EDIT: I also forgot and have to mention this: People were discussing at the Chat channel in-game, how everyone says "Ohhh HG:L is a great game, has a good potential, and when the game is completely done without any bugs, it will OWN!!". Someone simply said: "Everybody has been saying this for an entire year, and the game isn't even nearly close to be completely bug-ridden/patched/done." It's been an year. Face it, the game should have been completed and bug-ridden a long time ago. For example: IN THE RELEASE???
This extra content? Like Stonehenge and Abyss Chronicles? It's simply a "forgive us for having the game still this buggy after an entire year, missing contents such as PvP and a lot more stuff". And also a marketing strategy, to keep people from stop playing the game. Let's face it: would you guys still be playing if Stonehenge Chronicles weren't released with new content/areas/different battlefields from the 4-5 that we have in the quest parts/bosses/way to level faster?? I wouldn't. Not mention, very few people would subscribe if there weren't any extra content, or the extra content was released to non-subs as well.
I am a subscriber myself, have massive fun with the game, but I'm not 100% satisfied. The extra-content is the least they should do as a "forgive us".
HGL hasn't been out for a year, it was released at halloween.
The release was rushed, and bugged, FSS have admitted it, but the overwhelming majority of those bugs have been removed, how many memory dumps have you heard of since 1.0? How about bugged unique items? Not many I'd wager.
PvP isn't missing, it's in the game, and getting a big boost with 2.0. And your mention of SH and AB is retarded, why the fuck wouldn't FSS want to produce new content for a game people are paying to play? So yes, of course it's a marketing strategy, but it's not a bad one.
You really don't seem to be overly familiar with how MMORPG and online ARPG games function, they're constantly getting patched to fix bugs, add new content, balance classes etc. That's just how it goes.
This post was edited by Veilside on Jun 11 2008 10:28am