Poll

Do you think EA/DICE delay patches on purpose?

Yes!62%62% - 149
No!37%37% - 91
Total: 240
Sydney
2λчиэλ
+783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.
No, because that would cause the sales to decrease for their next upcoming products.
gandlers
Member
+4|6964

[JiF]Timmay! wrote:

Eboreus wrote:

well i dont think they do it on purpose... they do as much as they can... but with only one guy left in the BF2 team (the rest is into the bf214233 and bad company bullshit) there is not much they can do at all
BF2 patches are being done by DICE Canada, 2142 is being done by DICE Sweden.

I think the EA/DICE contract specifies some number of patches - they only have to do so many or the price goes up or something like that - so they're trying to stuff as much into 1.4 as they can. I'd bet good money that 1.4 will be the last or next-to-last BF2 patch we'll see.

If I'm wrong then DICE is a bunch of dorks. Any software house worth its weight in spam has some kind of source control system that'll show them what changed between releases. It would not speak well of them if they didn't know what was causing server crashes within a few days of the 1.3 release.
I agree with Timmay I think that 1.4 will be the last patch for BF2, why else would they be delaying unless this was the last, they've released plenty of gash patches before, what's stopping them this time? Maybe because the BF2 Patch team are winding up an ready to move onto patching for BF2142, and my god there will be plenty of work for them if BF2 is anything to go by.

What is more worrying is the innernet buzz.....another BF2Stats site...dare I day it http:..www.bf2player.com has this alarming news on the main page.....bullshit or not you decide......

http://www.bf2player.com wrote:

‹2:35pm› <namewitheld> EA's agreement with Gamespy ends on October 1, and as EA will use their own EA membership service to log player records for BF2142, the BF2 gamespy service will terminate on this date, meaning all current BF2 ranked players will lose all playing records.
‹2:35pm› <namewitheld> The final BF2 patch release will be a new 1.4b patch, which will remove the log in screen function but as a small bonus will allow all bf2 players to have all unlock weapons ingame, hardly much reward for the hard work put in by the legions of let down bf2 fans.
If that is true, and I for one wouldnt be at all suprised....then EA are set to loose alot of faithful BF2 fans....
My stats arent that great, but I'm proud of what I have done. If EA wipe me I for one will not buy another EA game as long as I have breath in my body. If thats how they treat customers...no thanks.

I just hope that it ain't true and that Im a cynical bastard.

Gandlers
Rogue_granny
Member
+22|6829
I used to be a BF2 junkie but since the treatment of the patch my game play has gone right down, it makes me angry when you login get in to a server press join then ctd, try again and the same thing happens, third time lucky get into a server start playing a round and then the server crashes, you look around for another server and find that they are all going down and at this point you think fuck it. I wonder if they had another booster pack coming out would it have taken so long, answer : no fucking way, they are a bunch of no good fucks as the last patch only was released on the 23/05/06, Christ that was like back in may over 3 frackin month ago which is just not on, so do i think EA/DICE delay patches on purpose, of course not as they are a bunch of stand up guy and in noway a pack of lying lazy fucks more interested in 2142 than bf2 and in no way would think of screwing the bf2 community as there is money to be made.

I have 42 player on my leaderboard and would always take a look to see who is playing before i login to bf2 and there used to be  around 15 at least on but now i would be lucky if there is 3, it just seems that everyone is sick and tired of bf2 and its fuck ups, lets go back in time to when they released the 1st patch, now that was a great patch that good that you had to uninstall your game then reinstall it and forget about the patch all together as it was a complete fuck up, i remember reading PC Gamer and a few other mags and they were all killing themselves laughing at the incompetence of EA&Dice never had a company released a patch and then had to unrelease it because it had been programed by  idiots, every patch after that was screwed and now just on the verge of bringing out the new patch they have just noticed a few problems which wouldn't effect gameplay but should be addressed before they release the patch out in full, Sniff Sniff i can smell bullshit, it looks like they have fucked it up again and instead of releasing it they have gone back to the drawing bared to go through it again due to incompetence by there overpaid programmers.

Now to the big question will i be buying BF2142, well at the moment with my hand on my heart i can say no, i wont be buying into a game that will have the same bunch of retards in the background pulling the string because as i can see it just isn't working.

Last edited by Rogue_granny (2006-08-30 06:30:54)

Slickfish
Member
+24|6887
Im not even sure if I played bf2 before 1.3, the only thing I give a sh*t about is the crashing, If they fix that, then I might think about buying 2142, but if they dont, then no chance im I spending my cash on something they will slowly cripple until they release a new game!.
If they want my money they need to fix the glitches in bf2 they have put into it, if not then my money will go on other games.
||3rb||MOBB
Member
+68|6753
rogue granny +1 for you bro, I think you hit the nail on the head.  I've been posting on investor sites everywhere from money to business week warning investors how fucked up EA is and what they have done to customers, as it stands I wouldnt piss on EA if they were on fire, another tuesday rolls by and no patch...  at this point patch 1.4 doesnt matter,  way its too little...way too late.  Do people realise that we have the exact same problems with this game that we had a year ago?  not a damn thing's been fixed!!! how the hell can you say oh, i suppose they will do better next time on 2142.   what incentive do they have to be better if you still pay for broken product, they dont.  my answer to EA is the same answer they had to the gaming community when it made any kind of request...

FUCK YOU!!!

Last edited by ||3rb||MOBB (2006-08-30 21:33:25)

Rogue_granny
Member
+22|6829
No i have to admit EA didn't say fuck you as they are a lot more subtle but they may just as well have :

The 1.4 patch will not be out tomorrow, today, or any time in the next few days.

We don't have a fixed release date for the patch right now, but as soon as we do we'll let you know.

Locking this thread as it is misleading.
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Last edited by Rogue_granny (2006-08-31 06:58:58)

twood375
Member
+16|6911|Washington, D.C.

chittydog wrote:

That makes no sense at all. If you buy a Toyota and it sucks balls, are you going to buy another Toyota? Only if you're stupid. The happier we are with their games, the more likely we are to buy their new games.
Good point, but the part about the toyotas wont ever happen, i just got a new sequoia an its real nice, and ive still got my '96 avalon with 150,000 miles (not a single problem in 10 years). Toyota ftw...EA eat shit!
Buzerk1
Member
+44|7100
LOL... so many people complaining, so many people saying they won't play the game and yet they are all here talking and playing the game, complaining about their stats not being update.... So many theories.... people convincing themselves EA did it on purpose...

It's a game... go play it... you can't? Go outside, it's sunny and women are beautiful

Peace....

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