switzki wrote...
DeadJediJamie wrote...
I agree though that a former PC only title is being held up by the idiotic quality testing from MS and Sony which almost never do their jobs properly. My worry is that this will be the final patch, and I don't have a particularly good feeling about this patch ironing out every problem.
The PC-only bit is ancient history now; DAO launched as multi-platform. In the grand scheme of things, a couple weeks spent waiting for console certification sort of pales in comparison to the months spent waiting for the patch to even get to the certification stage. If you want to be angry about delays, then by all means be angry, but don't blame a couple weeks of certification for months of delayed development. I agree with you that this will likely be the final patch for DAO.
Speaking generally (i.e. not directed at you specifically), I find it interesting how the perception of entitlement (I deserve what I want NOW NOW NOW) changes depending on who is doing the waiting. Console users have been told to be patient for nearly nine months now and have been accused of an overinflated sense of entitlement for wanting glaring defects addressed. Now that the patch is ready for certification, some PC users are outraged that they have to wait even a single day.
I'm as much a contard as I am a PC fiend. I own the xbox version too therefore I'm not bashing consoles at all. My preference however is the PC version which is truly woeful in its present form. The 360 version doesn't have the same problems such as crashing every 10-15 minutes, therefore in my view the PC version should have had a hotfix or at least a little priority treatment, due to the fact that the problems with the 1.03 patch makes Awakening similarly unstable, meaning I've been unable to play it after spending 20 English pounds on it.
Furthermore, the certification testing is a joke, I've heard of iffy patches being pushed out despite the supposed MS and Sony certification process, and to me seems like this extra couple of weeks is simply wrong, when the PC version has suffered the most. I will concede that the xbox has problems with game corruption, but this is otherwise avoidable if you know about it, the PC version is unavoidable and completely random and didn't need this additional delay.