Inforgrames Petition

[Azail]

"After buying a $40 piece of worthless software called Civilization 3, and waiting endless months for it to be patched and become "playable", at best, then spending another $30 on another piece of worthless software called Civilization: Play the World, which was buggy and at best half as reliable as the latest patch of the original Civilization 3, I have decided to start this petition. I am utterly fed up by the quality, or lack thereof, to be precise, with the work done by Firaxis Games. This is not to say that Firaxis has not attempted to correct their mistakes with countless patches, which they have, but said patches usually ended up making the game worse than it was before, which is disheartening to say the least.

As a programmer, I know that anytime you develop software it will have bugs, that's inescapable, however, as a programmer, I also realize shoddy work when I see it, and the titles referred to earlier are the most shining examples of that I have ever seen.

I hereby boycott all Firaxis products & all Infrogrames products (and will advise all my computer game playing friends and relatives to do the same) until I see a Civilization 4 produced by a reputable game development company, with a decent track record of producing quality games, or in other words, not Firaxis Games."

What do you guys think? Does this sound about right, or is there anything more you want to add?

[Tiberius]

No, it does not sound right.

And it's Infogrames.

[Azail]

And what exactly is not right about it?

[bigfree1]

I give no credence to your post Azail.

Civ 3 is not "worthless"; it has had it's share of problems, but NOT any that would make it "worthless". In fact is was a pretty fair game out of the box, I had fun with it, sorry you didn't. Since you're a programmer don't spned anymore money on other peoples' game's; write your own!

[Azail]

Ok, bigfree1, you got me on that one. It was not worthless, the artwork was great... now if only the programmers knew what they were doing...

[zulu9812]

The biggest mistake Firaxis made was hard-coding just about everything early on. It's caused them, and us, no end of problems...

[Maquiladora]

Its an average game thats all, its just we think it couldve been much better, whereas other less discerning players love it Id disagree and say Firaxis does have a good track record though, until now that is. Now lets never speak of this again.

[WarpStorm]

Sorry, no.

[wilbill]

Guess I'm just lucky. My copies of Civ 3, PTW, and all patches have been stable and enjoyable. I'm too busy playing to sign a petition that doesn't even correctly spell the name of the party it's addressed to.

[Wittlich]

Nope. I'm happy with PTW and the support of Firaxis in releasing the patches for it.

[Alfonso]

Infogrames NO more!!!

[Spiffor]

The game is enjoyable, and one of the longest lasting game investments I've ever made. Civ3 encourages me to buy future Firaxis products, and not the other way around.
I acknowledge there were bugs and the games were rushed, but they have been enjoying from day one

[asleepathewheel]

A little late to the party, eh Azail?

[SkiFletch]

I have to agree with everybody. maybe you just got completely unlucky and are experiencing every bug known to man, but my experience both with Civ3 and PTW has been wonderful. no problems whatsoever... my only issue with the game is latency problems with multiplayer combat, thats it.

[Nubclear]

no problems whatsoever..

Anyway, I hated the game. I've given it too many chances, its failed each one of them. Oh well.