Patch confusion!

[David Murray]

So I load up Civilization 3: Play the World, bought in the UK. It's ostensibly identical to the American version--talk of recycling "centers" rather than centres, Shakespeare's "Theater," etc. Yet, when one downloads the US version patch and applies it to the English language European edition it makes the game unplayable. Maybe Infogrames did make the European and American versions different but couldn't be bothered changing the spellings--although I doubt this. I suspect they are actually probably 99 per cent identical.

Infogrames would also do very well to look at a dictionary. In Britain, spellings with -ize are (academically speaking) not only acceptable, but preferrable to spellings with -ise (thus "civilization" is quite acceptable in Britain). Changing a few z's to s's does not constitute localization. The "British" version of civ3.com is a joke. This whole patch business is a joke. Play The World is a joke (although I did still buy it, oops), and Infogrames are a joke. Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to bring myself to laugh.

[ThePlagueRat]

The copy protection is a joke too...

When I have bought a copy I can legally make as many backups
as I want. But Infogrames had to be difficult with their customers.
And cause a lot of trouble with the distobution...

[zulu9812]

That statement is rediculous. All games are copy-protected. so singling out Infogrames makes no sense.

[WarpStorm]

Of the approximately 25-30 games I bought in the last year only one had absolutely no copy protection on it (Hearts of Iron).

[ThePlagueRat]

If infogrames is responsible for distributing the game,
they should take on the distibutor responsibility seriously.

Now they released it two months too late in certain parts of Europe,
with no info about the only patch that works there.
Instead of making one copy prot. for the enitre world,
they had to do it the hard way and did not notify Firaxis in time.

So we can find our patch on a Deutsche-webseite www.civ3.de , downloadable for those who understand german download instructions.
(Luckily, I my Norsk-language is a little bit similar to German)

So I finally made it, and can play with da bugs...

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Of the approximately 25-30 games I bought in the last year only one had absolutely no copy protection on it (Hearts of Iron).

HoI doesn't have copy protection? Didn't know that. BTW, do you like it? It's on my list to Santa at least!

But, 25-30 games a year?! Holy sh*t! You're crazy!

[WarpStorm]

Originally posted by Nikolai
HoI doesn't have copy protection? Didn't know that. BTW, do you like it? It's on my list to Santa at least!

But, 25-30 games a year?! Holy sh*t! You're crazy!

Do I like it. Yes. The simple litmus test on whether you'd like it is, "Did you like EU"? It reminds me very much of EU in WW2. Sure there are differences, but that's the overall feel.

Yes, I'm crazy. That didn't include the console games (but they have rental so I don't buy more than 5 or 6 of these for myself).

They say you can't take it with you, so I'm gonna spend it here.

[Nikolai]

Why, of course I liked EU! And even more EU2! WW2 is fun as well. My parents has got the message!

Console games too... Boy, how much do you actually earn?

[WarpStorm]

Too much, but don't tell my boss.

[Panag]

hi ,

intresting to see that there is a patch in japanese on the firaxis site , ......

have a nice day

[mazzz]

gggrrrrrrrrrrr, do I have the most updated patch? 1.14f