BF2S Forums Boycot Battlefield 2 Special Forces

dop3man wrote:

i agree with the op,bugs bugs and more bugs,but the game has given me and my bro nearly 400 hours of gaming and awesum gaming at that,it doesent live up to its potential but then again hardly anything does.
ive pre-order'd it and im gunna love it even more than BF2,also ive read that another patch will be out for the release which may address sum issues,a boycott would be nice to teach EA a lesson,but that aint gunna happen,too many bf junkies out there(me included).
good points tho

A boycott to teach EA a lesson?

What lesson would that be?

Seriously, if you're such an expert - what is this new magical development process you've devised which produces flawless code with an incredibly short and perfect QA process that releases perfect software?

I still am unclear on what all of these horrible show-stopping bugs are that you're all whining about. A little red-named teammate is annoying now and then, but it's hardly the end of the world. A funky and half-useless server browser sucks, but that's not the end of the world, either.

Lag? Where? I've played BF2 for a couple hundred hours so far and it has been (except for the couple brief login-server outages and maintainance outages) nearly flawless. I've been playing PC games for 20 years and in the software industry since I was 16. BF2 is impressively well put together and smoothly operational. Are there places to improve still? Sure. But is there something so horrible about the game that I either can't play at all or can't enjoy the gameplay? Hardly!

Oh, the one thing that does happen a lot is that the game crashes out to the desktop on launch fairly often. Or even while playing a game or loading up a server. But guess what? Shit like that isn't EA's fault. I'm running a GeForce 7800 with NVIDIA's 64bit drivers on XP64 (I only know enough Windows to get by as I'm an OSX / Linux / Unix man and this spare gaming box is host to a Debian compile base on the other drive). I'm using a Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drive. I'm using an SLI capable board (soon to add another GeForce 7800). I'm running it on an Apple Cinema Display (30" LCD).

And guess what? It still works. I doubt EA tested in such an environment. Software developers have surprisingly little test hardware to work on usually. Especially when it comes to variety of test hardware. The crashing to desktop sucks, but I'm hardly going to complain to them because their 32bit game doesn't run perfectly on an unsupported OS. Just like I'm not going to bitch to them because my internet connection can be buggy (especially when oversaturated in these apartments - probably all the golfers on the golf course I live on playing Tigerwoods online or something).

If you're twelve years old, you might expect everything to work perfectly all the time, because big companies are powerful like that. At least, if you're twelve years old today. You haven't had the depth and experience with hardware and software to see that it's not, as I said, a toaster or a television and that it is infinitely more complex than such devices and failures and glitches and buggy software is just part of the landscape. Some people do it better than others, but nobody has ever released a flawless piece of software (on the Windows platform, at least).

Honestly, what are maybe, 200 people boycotting to buy the game going to do to EA? Everyone knows that millions will buy the expansion probably on the first day it is released world wide, so there is'nt a point to boycott the game. DICE knows how to release games when they're finished, EA does not. Live with it, and if you're so obsessed with not buying the game because their are bugs, go to EAHQ and tell them what you think of them... Then be escorted off of their premises because of trespassing.

Just look at all games       you will find problems with all of them     you just to take what you can get     its like everything pretty much to gain something you loose something   so if you like the game play it if not play something else....

look at sims. huge seller.
if bf2 was as big as that, they would be putting more time into it.
and im sure they will put more time into, just be patiant. please.

BiRdMaN829 wrote:

a word to the wise: it's spelled boycott.  And do it.  EA should be patching Battlefield 2 every 2 months minumum, not coming out with worthless expansions.

A word to the wise: it's spelled minimum.

get a life speedball

i totally agree with the topic starter and will not be purchasing BF2: Special Forces until at least the first patch is released.

Speelbal wrote:

I don't have to tell you guys why. Boycott the new game untill the game is fixed!
People who buy their stuff are helping them and supporting their mal marketing system. I.e. Battlefield 1942 had about 8 patches. Vietnam had 2. Battlefield 2 has 2, and is probably not getting anymore new patches.

For people who don't know a reason to boycot:

- Recognice when you play in a server and suddenly the message "There are problems with your connection" and the server kicks you for a high ping.

- Starting Battlefield 2. And then dropping you without warning out of the game.

- Server "find" options that are not included or don't work properly. (Why does the server you just played on not appear in the favourites list?)

- High unexplainable pings

- Crazy gun accuracies. (I.e. The L85A1 (medic upgrade) has a deviation.)

- Overpowered and underpowered weaponry. (GL & Mp5)

- Server slots that don't appear or appear way too late. (Just clicked twice, seeing that there are 16 reserved slots! Waste of server imo.)

- Not having an option wich will give you the oppurtunity to update your server list on map/player/ping/ server text etc.

- PB overrides. (HACKERS CHEATERS ! )

- No bots compatible with LAN. (Coop as in 1942 and Vietnam wich was left out)

- Other game options besides 'Conquest' (They made an option so that you can change the server mode. Only all other fields are empty so you can only choose between 'Conquest' and ...nothing!)

- All fixes that have to be made for ingame play. (Like building glitches, when reviving someone they look funny.)

- A bug in Shongua Stalemate. (Don't know where.)

- Stat upgrade missing. (No tk punish stats are listed in their database. I think this is a good way to show people how many times they punish and forgive. Btw: server can inprint this in a coded message. Very handy!)


Do I need to say more? You think you can add something that isn't mentioned? Be my guest. More reason to boycott is more than welcome. I ask of you, please, help the ones that think this game needs more patches.

Thanks!

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What an idiot they are making patches its not a 1 day thing such a noob....uninstall please.

I personally will get it.  Games have flaws, nothin is perfect.  I've experienced most of the bugs in BF2, but really don't care.  It's just a game, plain and simple.  Doin well and getting the most kills or medals or even stayin connected to a server won't better my chances at getting a job...or anything in real life...if anything, the bugs are a good thing.  You will get so aggrivated...turn off the pc, walk outside...and realize there is a big shiny circle outside...it's called the sun. 

LOL, look at all your bitching and yet you have put in 6.5 weeks of play time in 5 months.  Basically, 25%+ of your time has been spent playng BF2.  Must be a really shitty game for you to spend that much of your time playing it.  Can anyone really take you seriously?

I guarentee that anyone that has more than 250 hours of play time in BF2 at this point will own BF2SF by the end of year.  But look at this way, when you buy BF2SF then you will have a whole litany of new things to bitch about, which should make you happy.

I'd be curious to know how many people here bought BF2 with thier own hard earned cash vs. mom/dad....just wondering.

I agree with the notion to pass this one up. I personally have no interest in plunking down anymore money on this title. But....this surely isn't the place to call a boycott knowing all the fan boys would hit this thread hard.

Cablespider wrote:

I'd be curious to know how many people here bought BF2 with thier own hard earned cash vs. mom/dad....just wondering.

I agree with the notion to pass this one up. I personally have no interest in plunking down anymore money on this title. But....this surely isn't the place to call a boycott knowing all the fan boys would hit this thread hard.

Who knows anymore? When I was a kid, you go stuff on your birthday and christmas, but it seems like every kid today gets whatever they want whenever they want it. Television, stereo, computer, internet connection, cable television, cell phones, cars, videogame consoles. You name it.

I bought ten copies for myself, my younger brother (we game a lot together since we both moved to Denver) and people we know. Then again, I'm 28, so I don't count.

Seriously though, I already bought the expansion last week and while I think it should have been stuff that was included (either on release or later on) for free, I'm not going to whine about it. For a measely $30, I'll just get it and play it and by the time I'm done, it'll contributed to hundreds and hundreds of hours of enjoyment at the rate of a few pennies per hour.

Somehow, I'm sure we'll all live.

Heretic wrote:

EAs console work far surpasses there PC work.

Well, duh. Console games typically work better than PC games, because they're developing and testing for a single specific set of known hardware rather than taking into account hundreds of pieces of hardware in thousands of various combinations with half a dozen operating systems.

You couldn't pay me to touch a console game, though. I prefer high-resolution (that even HD can't provide) and nice controls (that console controllers simply can't, haven't and probably never will attain).