Babbler Badge for all involuntary betatesters
Novis
Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19193Members
Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19193Members
I'd like to suggest some small symbolic "sorry" kind of badge for all those of us who suffered from the rushed out engine rewrite, for betatesting an unstable release for a week without reverting now, because we silently accepted that it "had to be done" for PR-reasons.
Technically we should count as "supporters" for donating our time on generating .dmp files (not to mention the psychological suffering) - at least I do hope that this stunt has paid off business-wise for UWE.
Technically we should count as "supporters" for donating our time on generating .dmp files (not to mention the psychological suffering) - at least I do hope that this stunt has paid off business-wise for UWE.
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Seriously this past weeks release was done poorly, but they have been doing things their way from the start and I'm sort of ok with that.
Being OK does not mean I'm going to stop bitching about AV, rine jump, Exo beacon, performance,..., If they don't want our input they should tell us, and until then bitching whining is our bread and butter.
...oh wait
...some of whom wish they didn't spend their money to encourage devs to steepen the learning curve on a game the majority of us were reasonably happy with.
But a badge? Hardly appropriate... Instead of that, I'd be happy if the next update(s) were about fixing lag/fps issues, memory leaks, crashes, improving loading time and, once and for all, resolve all those errors we get in the console while loading the game (which, it seems to me, nobody has addressed in ages).
In other words, I don't want more stuff - I just want to be able to play the game. That's why I contributed money, not to fund the devs' license to skew the game around when it already has so many issues.
With the difference that the people testing the beta know about it and they sign up for it.
I think it's cool you guys defend the devs, don't get me wrong. Just try not to give them too many cookies either.
Personaly i am still paying back for the years and years of FREE and awesome fun i had in NS1.
Even if i did not enjoy the hell out of NS2 games.
Maybe someone can create a 'No 1 supporter of feeling sorry for myself' badge for Novis? Here is a start:
Edit: damn, thats a big ass badge.
Edit2: i removed the big 'FU' badge cause it was too huge.
This game was already playable, @Eucomolhamas. It was rendered unplayable (for me and a bunch of other people, granted) by the last update, which featured all kinds of new, shiny stuff. Given choice, I'd choose an OK game I can play, over one with all kinds of features but which will crash every 10 minutes or so.
I think that's not really that difficult to understand. I regularly purchased the game and contributed towards the Reinforced Program. I don't understand what's so inappropriate about expecting the game to work. If updates always bring such massive issues, probably we need less of them, not one every other week.
If OTOH you're happy with the new update, good for you! As for me, I just want to play the game. That's what I paid for at the end of the day, unreasonable as it may seem.
"I paid for it, now let me use the product" might sound like an insult in the ears of hardcore supporters, but it doesn't mean I not going to pay for what might be developed when it's done, I just don't want to participate in the development process - where in this case not reverting to a working state seems not so much a technical but a business decision, and providing financial support for future products shouldn't be a requirement.
I understand your supporter's compassion, and accept your disagreement - despite some comments sounding like yapping fanboys - but I just do not share this level of dedication for NS2 at the moment and hence wouldn't like to see this release strategy as an accepted procedure.
About the crashes etc. I've been sticking to UWE servers and those with guaranteed stability until a fix for the lagging servers, and so have been playing perfectly ever since the patch came out.
Bare in mind that there wouldn't be any need for constant support if the game wasn't so broken in the first place. You're fooling yourself if you think otherwise, NS2 is a great game but its no technical marvel.
The free "DLC" is a nice nod to the community but its not quite the selfless gift you make it out to be (it was rushed to be ready for PAX, that should be a hint). I'm not getting into this again, but lets just say its our responsibility as consumers to call a company out if they pull something, be it a titan like EA or an indie studio like UWE. Give credit where credit is due, and UWE certainly deserve their fair share, but hold up on the "blind praise no matter what" unless you want to prove that it doesn't matter how they treat their customers.
As for me, I've already specified what would make me happy: And guess what? Looks like they're hard at work, so - assuming they do iron out the bugs, you won't hear me complain, I promise.
No, it isn't.
Our so called "thank you beta testers" isn't so exclusive.