Unfinished Products?
October 30th 2006 23:48
Since a couple of Wednesday's ago (18th October) I’ve been addicted to the latest online game to come out, Battlefield 2142 (Designed by DICE; Produced by Electronic Arts) the third in the series followed by Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2. I just can’t stop playing it, maybe it’s the thrill of chasing down cyber enemies piloting my giant walking robot (reminiscent of the giant walkers in Return of the Jedi), or working together with thirty odd others to take down a giant flying Titan (a sort of hovering air craft carrier on land). The fact that the more you play the more of the game you can unlock and the higher your rank goes is another factor for those of us in cyber land who like to stand out. As much as I like this game a lot, for every positive thing about it I seem to find two negatives. The biggest problem? It seems like I’m playing a Beta test.
Having bugs when a game is released is one thing, but Battlefield 2142 is borderline ridiculous. There are clipping issues; account problems; random crashes; the whole ranking system randomly resets itself so that you can go from playing as a Sergeant while next game you’re back to a recruit. It took me an hour just to get it installed, patched and running. I even got the typical ‘CD key invalid’ problem that seems to plague so many Electronic Arts (EA) games. Finally after reinstalling, repatching and creating a new account I was up and running. Here’s a list of problems/bugs I found with my copy of Battlefield 2142.
*Game doesn’t install properly, the patch cannot find install folder.
*My CD key is ‘invalid’ and I can’t login to my account.
*When killed anywhere on a titan my body would sink into the model of the ship almost as though it was made of water. This seems to randomly occur and makes it impossible for your soldier to be revived by medics (I’ve seen dead bodies fall through the roof and land next to me, then proceed to fall through the floor into the next level).
*Game crashes to the desktop. No explanation.
*My rank randomly goes from say a Corporal, all the way back to Recruit. I lose all game unlocks and experience points. Re-loading the game or logging out then in again fixes it most of the time.
*The terrain goes black.
*The load screens fail to load graphics.
*Game becomes incredibly laggy when the commanders move the titans too close to each other.
How much would you expect to pay for an unfinished game? One that is basically the same as its predecessor with a new flashy makeover, $20? $50? $80? How about $109.95 AUD. Quite possibly one of the most expensive games I’ve ever had to pay for on the PC. Hell I wouldn’t mind paying that much for it, I can surely see the future potential for the game (even though it is just an expansion pack of Battlefield 2 in a sense). But to be asked by EA to pay about $110 for an unfinished game is disgusting; already the word around the net is that people are returning the game en masse. Battlefield 2142 will be a great game, I love it a lot, but it’s not a finished game and to try and sell it as one is an insult to the entire gaming community. Come on EA and Dice get your act together.
If you think Joel is a whiny girlie gamer who cries in the corner when he finds game bugs then giventogaming.com wants to know (If you also do the same then let Joel know he’s not alone). What does the rest of the gaming community think about ‘unfinished/buggy’ games?
I think I got the budget version...
*Game doesn’t install properly, the patch cannot find install folder.
*My CD key is ‘invalid’ and I can’t login to my account.
*When killed anywhere on a titan my body would sink into the model of the ship almost as though it was made of water. This seems to randomly occur and makes it impossible for your soldier to be revived by medics (I’ve seen dead bodies fall through the roof and land next to me, then proceed to fall through the floor into the next level).
*Game crashes to the desktop. No explanation.
*My rank randomly goes from say a Corporal, all the way back to Recruit. I lose all game unlocks and experience points. Re-loading the game or logging out then in again fixes it most of the time.
*The terrain goes black.
*The load screens fail to load graphics.
*Game becomes incredibly laggy when the commanders move the titans too close to each other.
How much would you expect to pay for an unfinished game? One that is basically the same as its predecessor with a new flashy makeover, $20? $50? $80? How about $109.95 AUD. Quite possibly one of the most expensive games I’ve ever had to pay for on the PC. Hell I wouldn’t mind paying that much for it, I can surely see the future potential for the game (even though it is just an expansion pack of Battlefield 2 in a sense). But to be asked by EA to pay about $110 for an unfinished game is disgusting; already the word around the net is that people are returning the game en masse. Battlefield 2142 will be a great game, I love it a lot, but it’s not a finished game and to try and sell it as one is an insult to the entire gaming community. Come on EA and Dice get your act together.
If you think Joel is a whiny girlie gamer who cries in the corner when he finds game bugs then giventogaming.com wants to know (If you also do the same then let Joel know he’s not alone). What does the rest of the gaming community think about ‘unfinished/buggy’ games?
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