Third Seasons Patch is out....
Sleepycat:
heh
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If you look at message boards of any video game out there, you will find similar complaints about bugs in games. It's unavoidable. There is no game in the history of games that has shipped bug-free.
guess he hasn't played any console games... yes, sometimes a console game bug gets missed but most of the console games I've played in the past 20something or more years didn't have any noticeable bugs. yet when it comes to computer games - anyone with a brain knows there are going to be noticeable bugs before they even buy it ::) and not just in computer games but in other computer software too and it's accepted... because they can always patch it. (and too bad for those that can't get the patchs)
and now we expect the patches themselves to have bugs and/or break things :P
GayJohnScarritt:
And nVidia card owners, check back soon for an update. I should have one within a week.
That right there is what interests me. Tho i'll have to wait for the 'volunteer' testers here to check it before i download anything. lol
Orikes:
Quote from: Sleepycat on 2007 June 21, 06:03:00
heh
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If you look at message boards of any video game out there, you will find similar complaints about bugs in games. It's unavoidable. There is no game in the history of games that has shipped bug-free.
guess he hasn't played any console games... yes, sometimes a console game bug gets missed but most of the console games I've played in the past 20something or more years didn't have any noticeable bugs. yet when it comes to computer games - anyone with a brain knows there are going to be noticeable bugs before they even buy it ::) and not just in computer games but in other computer software too and it's accepted... because they can always patch it. (and too bad for those that can't get the patchs)
Not to really agree or disagree with anything MaxoidSam said, there is a really large difference between making games for consoles and making games for the PC.
Consoles are going to be standard across the board. The pieces inside an Xbox are going to match any other Xbox out there, generally speaking (hacked harddrives aside). Designers for a game on the Xbox only need to test it against one machine configuration to make sure the game is going to perform as expected. PCs on the other hand, it's nearly impossible to find two that are put together the exact same way. Motherboards, video cards, ram, processor, etc.
I used to do tech support for a company where I supported photo software that came with digital cameras. The designers for the software had dozens of machines that they tested the software on, and still the new versions would end up going out the door and within a week of the release, we'd find some stupid bug that only happened on machines from Dell (or HP or etc.) with a particular configuration.
And that's not even taking into consideration the crap that people put on their computers. That takes it out of hardware concerns and into software concerns. There's no telling what's going to cause a conflict or a problem.
I'm not trying to defend EA on this one, but comparing putting out games for a console to a PC is a little misleading.
Hook:
Bullshit. A bug caused by weird hardware configurations is one thing, but the Crying Babies had nothing whatsoever to do with hardware. At least test the damn gameplay on some standard system to make sure it works. It almost looks like they weren't testing gameplay at all, but just possible configuration problems. This is not acceptable.
Hook
trancejeremy:
I think part of the problem is, they test it, then try to fix bugs, but sometimes when they fix the bugs, they break more stuff. But they don't test it again to see if there are new bugs, only if the old bugs are fixed.
Like the Crying baby.
It's not just PC games, in the PSP game Puzzle Quest, it somehow shipped with a major feature disabled. And apparently, my scenario is what happened. They went to fix something, broke the feature, but didn't notice until too late. At least on PC, they can patch it. But I think developers are just skimping on testing these days (or publishers are)
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