How do we punish Firaxis?

[t0mme]

You lame f*ckers!
It's easy to complain, isnt't it? It's obvious that you all don't know how it is to make a damn good game as Civ III. First all the Firaxis-programmers spends years of developing and programming. And when they're finished, all the "fans" do is complaining. Don't you suckers know that a game without bugs is impossible to make, especially when it has to run under Windows ****.
A real Civ-gamer respects this new Sid Meier creation. If you don't like it, you're not true Civ-gamers. I started playing Civ from the early beginning. I know everything about Civ II and I even played Civ: CTP (it's not a Sid Meier game, but still fun to play). And I must say; Sid Meier rocks and you so-called "fans" are the biggest idiots alive!

[Kaesar]

huh

everybody take a deep breath

now my little rant:

hardware compatibility:
I personally haven't had any yet. I could see that this could be a frustrating problem as I have experienced it with other games. But just because there is a problem by no means does this mean it is wide spread.

It's like the news. Most of the time bad things gets reported on the news, but by no means is this a proportional representation of what's going on in the world. So even if you've read 50 messages about hardware incompatibilities it doesn't mean Firaxis sold a bad product. Have patience, send a nice email to tech support and eventually most people will be happy.

game balance:
I believe you're refering to the fact that outdated units are defeating modern units. Yes, this is unrealistic, but I rather enjoy this aspect. In civ2 I built tons of stealth fighters/bombers, howitzer, tanks during endgame. There was no way I could lose. It pretty much turned into what I called "continental lawmowing exercise" Now you can't just rely on this but have to figure out new strategies for military conquest. There's been quite a lot of posts about this in apolyton so I think you should check it out. I find it makes the game a lot more interesting now.

bugs:
I really haven't encoutered any bugs yet, although there does seem to be a resource leak in the game that makes it take forever when I try to quit the game. It seems the length of time is dependent on how long I have been playing.

So what am I trying to say. I am rather enjoying this game and I am sorry to hear that it has been the opposite for you. But if you really feel like punishing Firaxis, then don't buy their next game, just don't expect everybody to follow your stance.

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[Blisterz]

Originally posted by Baloo
Here are some ideas from your humble servant:

--Post desultory posts on Firaxis to every newsgroups in the Internet. Maybe some members of alt.homosexual or alt.sos.Kiribati will get the message and join your cause.
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Was that intended to be a homophobic statment? If so then i guess there is no reason to read anymore of your postes 'cause we know that there is little to no logic behind your statments.

Sorry but had to speak up

[Cavalier_13]

He has a point.....

You know, the original poster has a point.

Games companies, not just Firaxis, but all of them save the rare exception put out the game after it is 75% complete. The final beta testing is being done by the paying customer and that is just wrong. This is true, and you just need to look outside of the gaming industry for examples.

If GM or Ford or Honda would produce a car that is 75% finished, consumers would be in an uproar. Since a greater percentage of the population consume cars than PC Games, then for sure their voices would ring out louder.

I myself am beginning to be quite fustrated with the WHOLE industry of gaming. What can I do? Nothing, unfortuneatly since I am a gamer, and I find SOME satisfaction in them.

Because I have SOME enjoyment, does that remove MY right to complain and criticize the publishers and the developers for games that are released as betas? No, it doesn;t. MY cash goes towards these games, and as a consumer, I am allowed to expect a better product.

This game is very good, but as good as it is, it has flaws, and many of them could and should have been caught during beta testing. Air Superiority that is broken, Theory of Evolution wonder that works 10% of the time (in 10 games, I got the 2 promised advantages only once), over expansive civs that know exactly where every hole on the map lie, AI units that can see my subs but I cannot see theirs, a woefully SLOW performance as the game advances due to so many reasons it is hard to pinpoint, all of these are bugs that could have been caught in beta. Let's not forget the doozie, the 1,000,000 per turn gold bug. I mean, this is BASIC bug squashing.

The rest is pure gold for me, and for many people. The reason many of us complain and ask for publishers/developers to be held accountable is because the resources ARE out there to create a superiour product.

Game magazines are at the mercy of all these publishers/developers because if they know a magazine will give an ACCURATE portrait of their product, then it will sell less....so they don't give that magazine the advertising revenues and offer it to their competitor that will give them that 5 star review. Again, the gamer is the one to pay for this. That is why forums like this are so great. They allow all civ/game players to exchange their ideas and their dissapointments without the need for partisan reviews.

I, as a gamer, will NEVER be 100% happy with a game, but their is a level where where the flaws are outclassed by the features... but unfortunately, it's not quite there with CIV 3. But I know Sid and the team will patch the game to there. In the meantime, I have a right to be heard.

To use an old phrase, "The squeaky wheel gets the oil".....well, assuming you have The Wheel and Oil in your influence sphere.

Cavalier

[techumseh]

Originally posted by t0mme
You lame f*ckers!
It's easy to complain, isnt't it? It's obvious that you all don't know how it is to make a damn good game as Civ III. First all the Firaxis-programmers spends years of developing and programming. And when they're finished, all the "fans" do is complaining. Don't you suckers know that a game without bugs is impossible to make, especially when it has to run under Windows ****.
A real Civ-gamer respects this new Sid Meier creation. If you don't like it, you're not true Civ-gamers. I started playing Civ from the early beginning. I know everything about Civ II and I even played Civ: CTP (it's not a Sid Meier game, but still fun to play). And I must say; Sid Meier rocks and you so-called "fans" are the biggest idiots alive!

Sad.

[Setsuna]

Originally posted by techumseh


Sad.

Scary too. I'm going to have nightmares tonight about being unable to properly enunciate my points.

[Dis]

[The Templar]

Rasbelin - weren't you the whiney kid who cried and cried about your limited edition and how unfair it all was? Stick your head in your cookie tin, shut the f*** up, and get the hell out of these forums. Your the last person who should throw stones. Go play with your cookies they way I play with your mom.

And Civ3 is a damn good game. It has some serious bugs (like air superiority and ways to deal with corruption), but its fun so far in my book.

[Dis]

lol

all LE games are ripoffs. My brother got the diablo2 LE. whooppee. a cd with the music from the game.

worthless

stop wasting your money and complaining about it

but in case it isn't clear.

LE is for suckers

[Blisterz]

Re: He has a point.....

Originally posted by Cavalier_13


If GM or Ford or Honda would produce a car that is 75% finished, consumers would be in an uproar. Since a greater percentage of the population consume cars than PC Games, then for sure their voices would ring out louder.

Cavalier

Well, a 75% finished car would kill someone, no patching no expansions nothing, just dead...

A game can be fixed and can be made to work better.
As long as you don't have to pay for the patch then I don't see what the big deal is.

Just my 2 cents...

[Dis]

they do produce unfinished vehicles

at least the american companies do (yes even my dodge truck had to be taken in a couple of times for manufaturing defects- a seal on the tranmission- linkage on my steering column)

and Firaxis is an american company- do you see where this is going?

I want better analogies than that for your silly arguments!!

conclusion: american companies suck ass. buy european games if you want perfect games (hehe- like black and white)

[Deathwalker]

I agree Civ 3 is a good neh great game, Some of the ideas are great and way better than CTP. But they did not finish the job, no matter what you say we got a beta and now they cant fix all the little problems, so we either wait for for Ultimate Civ 3 or make do

[MarkG]

Originally posted by techumseh
an 'anti-fan' site, complete with some game reviews based on actual play throughs by actual civ fans?

you mean like the ones posted on this site?

[JerryK72]

I completed my first full game of CIV III last night. No real problems. Maybe just a few minor bugs, but nothing to go boycotting a company for.. CIV III is a great game in its current state. After a couple patches, It'll be awesome. But if you want to boycott the company, go right ahead. So I guess from this point on you should have no more complaints about the game, because obviously you stopped playing it. Which is a good thing so we don't have to read your nonsense anymore...

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