Strike of the gamers.

[BrandX]

What a good idea.....

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27959

So they are going to call a strike for COD2 over how bad the game is being supported!

Roll on the BF2 strike. I was firmly in the nothing wrong with BF2 camp. But the last 2 patches I've had such bad problems with can't they just fix it! I don't enjoy having to spend days on end searching for bloody fixes for things that shouldn't be broke in the first place.

We paid for it, the least we ask is to actually play it!

What other games wouldn't go a miss with a strike?

[XA04]

..How are they going to actually strike then? Not join the servers? Army of zombie-computers to take out a DDoS?

I couldn't see anything in the link..

[BrandX]

Close all the multiplayer servers. Just to make a stand more than anything.

[unreal]

Better than nothing, good for them aswell. I have a feeling though that all these Xbox360 release developers have been very busy with the console versions of their games recently though, so maybe they have not given as much time to the PC version as they planned?

[specofdust]

Good for them indeed, its about time gamers stood up against publishers, who are basicly releasing half finished games and now it seems, some of them aren't even doing the usual task of fixing said games in patches, but rather just ignoring them and getting on with the paid sequal.

[unreal]

Good for them indeed, its about time gamers stood up against publishers, who are basicly releasing half finished games and now it seems, some of them aren't even doing the usual task of fixing said games in patches, but rather just ignoring them and getting on with the paid sequal.

The gaming world is getting far too competitive in a way, now that all these developers are trying to get their games out asap. Funny when they issue a patch same day on release sometimes :/

[dkmech]

The gaming world is getting far too competitive in a way, now that all these developers are trying to get their games out asap. Funny when they issue a patch same day on release sometimes :/

Not at all. Say the game goes gold 2 weeks before release. They have two weeks to make enough copies of it for the release day. What should they do in the two weeks? Twiddle thumbs? How about some more testing and a patch on release date to fix any bugs found? What a jolly good idea!

If you think that having a patch one month later is fine then surelly an early patch fixing the more obvious bugs makes just as much sense.

[Spud1]

What a good idea, if only people had done somethign similar when Deus Ex 2, Halo and Thief3 were released...

I'm picking up on the small point raised in that link - that they think COD2 was developed for a console then ported to PC..and I have to agree that it feels like that; mainly because fo the dumbed down health system. Just another example of how consoles are slowly degrading some of what should be the best PC games out there. at least they can't do it with RPG's or RTS games..yet

I'm surprised at activision though, they are normally a good publisher who respond well to their community..

[jericho64]

Good on them. I still think its unforgiveable that EA (conspiring with Nvidia?) made it so that BF2 wouldn't work with the GeForece 4 TI range. As I understand it didn't work simply because of an effect for the water.

So to make the water look pretty, they lock out a large userbase that was loyal to BF1942. Yes, I could've spent money on a new nVidia card, but no, I'm keeping my GF4 in principle (and because I'd only be spending the money for BF2)