Curse

Monk Mystic · Oct 29, 2006, 09:46 PM // 21:46

if you think about it, they cant replay the game every time they fix something. for all you know, which isnt much, while finding a glitch later in the game and fixing the code they may have accidentally dominoed and messed up code elsewhere, shit happens. if they noticed a bug 2 days before launch, its not possible for them to fix it, then replay everything to make sure it all still works. yeah i was pissed that it was broke too, but they fixed it in a timely manner and i got over it. so let me just say this, build a damn bridge and get the frack over it.

Whiplashr · Oct 29, 2006, 11:15 PM // 23:15

Saying that "all games are released with bugs" is a blanket generalization that could be used, in the way you guys are using it, to excuse even a game that has NOTHING but bugs and is virtually completely unplayable.

Surely there are degrees of acceptability here. I haven't personally come across any of the gamestoppers yet (haven't gotten very far in NF), so I'm not in a good position to judge. But while it's clearly impossible to release a complex game without ANY BUGS, that should not be an excuse for any and ALL bugs. Surely there is a level of bugfree that should be strived for and acceptable. It's just a question of what that level is. From what I've seen/played so far, NF seems good enough to me. It just bothers me that so many of you are complete and utter fanboys and yes men and just accept anything and everything without question.

Apocrypha · Oct 30, 2006, 01:34 AM // 01:34

uhh, I haven't run into a single bug yet. Bought it the night it came out and have been playing it since. No idea what you're talking about.

and to the guy with the solitaire comment: that's not a bug, that's a programmed cheat, congrats.

BaconSoda · Oct 30, 2006, 01:57 AM // 01:57

Well, i defense of Anet and Ridicule of Anet, here are some of my flamable words.

NC Soft is the publisher of GW correct? I may not be a game designer, or a publisher, but i beleive that to stay afloat in buissness money has to be made at a certain time, yes? NC Soft (in it's generousity) accepted the terms to publish GW with no fees, but with optional exp packs (like the episode system for Half Life 2) that come out regularly. Every six months is the deadline set for these exp packs by NC Soft (i believe). This contract is to be held by Anet, and Nightfall is their product. Miscommunication? Maybe, but it may not be Anet's fault entirely.

This does not entirely take them from judgement, the game should have no gamebreaking bugs due to testing in the beta event. Please, take some time to read the Nightfall FAQ on the GW website. It states that the preview event was the beta....Notably it did not expand past Istan, bad move Anet....Due to this not all of Nightfall was tested, so this might actually have been expected.

Well, what's done is done, and cannot be undone. Lets just go and play the game now....

Daemon Loki · Oct 30, 2006, 02:21 AM // 02:21

I love how people have never wrote a program in their life and expect something to be bug free. Guess what sometimes even if something is well tested there are bugs even major ones that can pop up. Guess how many bugs can come up even after something has been tested for the 100th time and works fine but then later down the road something else gets updated in the engine and bam you have a bug in that area that you tested 100 times and knew it worked.

Programmers = Human

Humans make mistakes and when you have a full team of people working on something there is bound to always be miss communication. Games like WoW were tested way before they were ever released because guess what they had the time to fully test it before they ever threw the game out the door, they also have boat loads of money from previously written games/titles to support this. A-Net wants things released every 6 months and to be honest Nightfall changed a hell of a lot of things compaired to Factions and also Prophocies cannot be compaired because prophocies was written and fully tested before shipping. Nightfall on the other hand has been receiving many updates throughout the whole time between the preview weekend and the release date and I bet even the night before it was released things were updated and guess what some stuff didn't get tested.

And for my last note, I haven't really seen as many game breaking bugs as you people keep saying there are but I also haven't been that far through the game yet either. Even if their is a "game breaking bug" I'm sure Anet will get it fixed in a real big hurry because people paid money for the game and they don't want to lose money because of something like that.

Savio · Oct 30, 2006, 04:48 AM // 04:48

This isn't a constructive suggestion; if you want to contribute, go find a bug thread and talk there. Closed.