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[JasonCline]

So here's my situation.

I was happily playing through Dragon Age, a few freezes here and there, nothing major and things are going smoothly. I have done every available quest except for the Urn of Sacred ashes quest, which am unable to complete because Ban Teegan (something like that) is not by the Arl, or anywhere to be found. I did some searches online and discovered that this is a common bug that is fixed by the patch. Alright, no biggie, I download the patch and continue to cruise through the game. Nope. Clicking the patch does absolutely nothing other than to bring up nonsensical text boxes. I downloaded 1.02 hoping that would work, but same thing. Am I missing something here? Am I doing it wrong? Did I download the Windows only patch? Are there no patches for mac and am I screwed?

Please help! 

[JasonCline]

Alright, I just discovered the FAQ, and found that there's NO WAY to install the patches? Seriously? I bought a game that is unbeatable due to a bug that as far as I've found, there is no way around. So I essentially paid for a broken product with no way to fix it. Absolutely f***ing absurd, Bioware.

Modifié par JasonCline, 21 juin 2010 - 12:42 .

[thewarden500]

My thought exactly. I personally never got that problem but I'm still majorly annoyed by DA:O Mac's status as an abandonware.

[Janichsan]

JasonCline wrote...

Alright, I just discovered the FAQ, and found that there's NO WAY to install the patches? Seriously? I bought a game that is unbeatable due to a bug that as far as I've found, there is no way around. So I essentially paid for a broken product with no way to fix it. Absolutely f***ing absurd, Bioware.

Seriously. But don't blame Bioware, who are merely EA's lowly minions. Direct your wrath at Transgaming, who are responsible for the Mac... um... "port".  Feel free to swamp this email adress with your complaints: support@gametreeonline.com

Modifié par Janichsan, 21 juin 2010 - 02:59 .

[Jhime]

The twitter page really could be a good place for feedback as well. They post everything from web if the tags are to be believed so if they see a big number next to @transgaming they'll be sure to read it.

[Marooned-Game]

Janichsan wrote...
Seriously. But don't blame Bioware, who are merely EA's lowly minions. Direct your wrath at Transgaming, who are responsible for the Mac... um... "port".  Feel free to swamp this email adress with your complaints: support@gametreeonline.com

But is EA keeping Transgaming from releasing an update? Why doesn't BioWare have ownership of this, like the City of Heroes devs seem to?

There's some sort of breakdown here that we don't know about. EA <-> BioWare <-> Transgaming... who actually controls this?

And why won't they tell the users anything concrete?

[ladydesire]

Marooned-Game wrote...

Janichsan wrote...
Seriously. But don't blame Bioware, who are merely EA's lowly minions. Direct your wrath at Transgaming, who are responsible for the Mac... um... "port".  Feel free to swamp this email adress with your complaints: support@gametreeonline.com

But is EA keeping Transgaming from releasing an update? Why doesn't BioWare have ownership of this, like the City of Heroes devs seem to?

There's some sort of breakdown here that we don't know about. EA BioWare Transgaming... who actually controls this?

And why won't they tell the users anything concrete?

Maybe the party responsible for continued maintainence hasn't been decided; Transgaming appears to have only supplied the libraries needed to run the game (at least that's how I read the Cider FAQ page) and EA/Bioware are supposed to actually do the work.

[dualie11]

I'm on my FIFTH play-through of this game, and I have never once failed to complete the Urn of Sacred Ashes quest.

As for blaming a supplier to EA because they didn't get paid to finish the port? That's seems ridiculous to me. Clearly the parent company has to be at fault here, both for failing to market the game properly in the first place so that Mac users, unaware there would be a Mac version, didn't buy if for PC, and abandoning the software once it became clear that sales were lower than expected.

Again, you don't need no stinkin' patch to play this game. It plays just fine, and even accepts add-ons with the help of Modazipin. If your quest is broken, revert to an earlier version of the game and do it differently, or start the game over.

Modifié par dualie11, 07 juillet 2010 - 01:05 .

[Janichsan]

Maybe the party responsible for continued maintainence hasn't been decided; Transgaming appears to have only supplied the libraries needed to run the game (at least that's how I read the Cider FAQ page) and EA/Bioware are supposed to actually do the work.

No, that's pretty clear here: Bioware handles the PC maintenance, EA hands the binaries to Transgaming, they wrap some Cider around it, then hand the stuff back to EA for QA and then it's supposed to be released.* Somewhere in this chain, there's a broken link and that appears to be EA, since they have all the control.

* This is by the way the usual way "porting" with Cider to works. The only exceptions so far appear to have been Heroes of Might and Magic V and the original port of X3 Reunion. Even with CoH and EVE Online, the main ciderisation is apparently done by Transgaming. In these cases, the Cider wrapper does not seem to change significantly from patch to patch.

Modifié par Janichsan, 07 juillet 2010 - 11:54 .

[Marvin_Arnold]

Given that many WIN gamers are quite unhappy with changes introduced by 1.03, we might be lucky for the time being... (except for the unavailability of expansions that rely on 1.03...)

[Lacivicus]

so, now they're releasing Mac versions of the DLC's and Awakening and they don't even run without the patches. WTF is that about? Anyone think there's a way to get a refund for purchasing products that don't work? BBB.ca? Apparently, Gametree is from Toronto...

[fabiodatax]

The patch has been released...