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Enough is Enough
Avra
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I was on of the first to jump on the VG bandwagon. I wanted this game to be popular..but enough is enough.
The players are now playing.. I can understand there may be some bugs still to "iron out" - unanticipated bugs, problems etc..but the game has now been in retail a month, and the bugs and problems abound...just today, I have died over 5x due to lag/computer crashing, and when I log onthere is no tombstone, my petition has been in the queue since 9am..over 10 hours. this is unacceptable.
Sure they are fixing things, but there was one patch this week, and I dont exactly see them scrambling to fix the issues. Guess they need the customer money first....
I am not a fan of WoW, and I like the challenging aspects of this game. But, every nite I log on, I find myself more frustrated and angry than having fun due to bugs, crashes.
SoE screwed me over big time on EQ 2 - do you know I STILL have a petition open waiting for a GM response since October 2006? LOL. I thought I would give this game a try, despite being now owned and operated by $oE, but this will be the last time. Sorry to SoE fanbois, this isnt trying to start a flame war, its calling SOE out on thier horrible customer service. Fix your crap, seriously.
A fan who has had enough.
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Thnx for letting us know
QQ more though..
When I saw SoE on the box, I said "no thanks." (And that comes from more than just reading what happened to SWG...I have professional experience dealing with Sony...trust me, just about everything Sony does is crap).
yeah, i wont buy an SoE game again. I have had it with this company. If you ever need to deal with their customer service, god help you. At best they ignore you, at worst you get a consdescending, mildly threatening attitude.
From now on, i will buy other games, I think the future is there anyways. Sony's rep sucks.
I was in Beta and it clearly was not ready. It was released in the blundering style of SOE. Maybe someday they'll get people who care about quality and who realise it doesn't help the bottom line to release a piece of junk. If you want to compete with Blizzard you have to make games like they do. Quality above everything else. They are frustratingly anal about it but by compairson SOE doesn't seem the least concerned.
I didn't buy the game because I wouldn't have paid at any point in Beta to play the game and it never got to a point I would have. It was almost impossible to play because of lag the day before the Beta servers were taken offline. So I didn't buy the miracle build crap they spouted and I'm very glad I didn't. I wounder how long it will be before SOE forces them to redesign the game so it works even worse or before they roll out an expansion that is equal parts imcomplete content and broken content?
A lot of gamers have misconceptions about how fast game development should be. They expect everything, and they expect it next week, or else they'll throw a tantrum and demand that things speed up; as though the development team has been loafing around, not even caring about the game, just to piss you off.
It's not for lack of caring, or lack of effort, or lack of listening. Development, bug squashing, and performance enhancement all simply take time. And this dev team is clearly passionately commited to the game and it's betterment, and have been running in crunch mode non-stop since a month before the game released to polish everything up.
Demanding, tantrum throwing, or even canceling your account will not make the process go any faster.
E8400@ 4.0Ghz ~ Saphire HD 4870 ~ 6GB DDR2@ 860MhZ
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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What really make me angry about Vanguard is the performance of the game. That is really making me consider quiting.
I got a Code 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, ATI 1300 pro with 512 MB and I can't get more than 14 fps in moderate settings! I think my machine isn't that bad to properly run a game. I can run most of the newer games with high graphics and Vanguard is the only one Im having problems.
CONTRIBUTE INTO THE GAMING INDUSTRY! STOP PAYING FOR BORING COPYCATS, UNFINISHED BUGFESTS AND CRANKY JUNKWARE. BE A RESPONSIBLE GAMER!
And if you don't see people getting fed up and quitting, you aren't paying attention. Of the group of 12 I moved into retail with from beta, there are 3 left still playing- in less than a month, and mainly because despite a multitude of patches nothing is getting fixed. One of the final straws for me was that they found time to nerf the crap out of the damage I could do, but after 10 days hadn't changed the fact that the diplomacy quest line was broken and was preventing advancement. The last week and a half of beta showed a lot of promise, and the first 3 weeks of retail reversed it all. They messed this up horribly.I will very honestly be amazed if they retain 50% of the playerbase after the free month is over.
EDIT: Spelling
Bite me, Turbine.
For your case in particular I would say its the graphics card but thats simply my guess. I see so many of these doom and gloom post but in game I rarely hear anyone complaining about this stuff. I don't know, sometimes I wonder if the loudest complainers have even played the damn game since beta 5 but then I realize I honestly don't care. The game can and will run well if you A. have the system to handle it and B. have the correct settings for the rig you're using.
My rig: Opteron 185 3 gigs dual channel memory 7800gt 256 and two serial 3 gbps drives one for OS one for games AN8 32x mboard
My system is pretty decent but in no way is it bleeding edge and I can run it on high settings so to me it seems people must be doing something wrong. Hell my second machine is P4 3.0 ghz with 1 gig dual channel ddr2 and a 7600gt oc and my best friend runs the game on balanced settings with no hitching and gets fps above 30 basically all the time.
If you're system can't handle it that sucks but don't say the game doesn't run well for anyone because that simply isn't true. The last patch alone added between 5 and 10 fps per sec for me which shows that performance and bugs are priority one for the developers. I wonder if the biggest haters of the game have ever been in game at launch in a MMO before. I've been there for 3 or 4 games and every single one suffered from bugs, performance issues, and generally they weren't released with all features in place, thats par for the course.
Peace
Saying you haven't come across any players in game that have claimed they were going to quit because of bugs makes sense. The ones that have had continual crashes and 10 fps like myself probably just quit and instead of spending painful time ingame, came to forums like this to voice those complaints. When a place like Gamespy writes an objective piece about a game, then says they still had performance issues on a very good rig, a lot of people listen.
"and generally they weren't released with all features in place, thats par for the course."
"Every time I go to a new restaurant, I get maggots with my rice. That's just par for the course."
Bite me, Turbine.
I died because of a crash but always been able to get my stuff.
Devs are all over silky venom so i suggest you post there and not here. You will not get help here. All you are gonna get is the usual flamers telling you "we told you", "SOE" and "dlfsjdaklfdjfk".
http://www.silkyvenom.com/forums/showthread.php?p=110626#post110626
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Its just been release so the game will have performance problems. Go have a look at any forum for a new game. There will always be ppl complaining about poor performance.
The grind. This is not a problem of the game. You guys just don't like mmorpgs anymore. Your looking for something different and when you don't find it you find someone to blame.