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[jcmuki]

what do you expect it's bioware/ea

[Skeevley]

I generally play on MEDIUM, but with DA it's EASY for me. That's because combat is such a chore. Worse still, enemies respawn, so even after I have cleared the area, a few minutes later I have to say "Oh for f***s sake... " and have to fight again. It's tiring after a while and it's better just to quickly skip that, then to go through fighting over and over and over and over again.

 

 

Let's hope some brilliant folk manage to make some mods even though the game isn't designed for it. For DA2 I hated the combat so much that I not only played it on the easiest, I also installed a mod to make that even easier, and then (when it was finally released) installed an "instagib everything on the screen with a single button" mod. This allowed me to see a little bit of combat when I wanted, and then to simply skip it whenever I wished. Then I could get on and actually enjoy the story and the characters. (The combat in DAO was perfect for me. I found the combat animation in DA2 to be repetitive, boring, and too spastically-fast to enjoy.)

[SilentWolfie]

It's such a disappointment to hear the PC version is a subpar experience (which I have been following closely through the forum posts). I'm not sure how Bioware thinks this game can sell like skyrim if they don't have a robust modding scene. It's not your DRM or your aggressive marketing that brings the PC gamers to you, it's the respect that you give to the gamers. It is clear as day that DA:I was designed with consoles in mind, and there's nothing much to be "concerned with" because you won't be doing a new UI for the PC.

 

I even waited for a few days to see if there's any updates in this post by Bioware. Nope.

 

To be honest, I expect daily updates for the PC, on your plans on how this will be made better or what sort of work is going to be started on. That will show your sincerity in repairing relationships with the PC gamers. This BW post certainly didn't repair mine.

 

I'm glad I didn't preorder this game like how I did for DA/ME series. DA 2 and ME 3 were great wake up calls as to how far Bioware has fallen under EA. Time to jump to Projekt instead... at least they don't use DRM. I don't need to worry if there's any rumored DRM that's going to cause damage to SSD.

[BenGibson]

I have just about had enough with this game. I really do love the series and the game looks fantastic on my system but the stuttering in the cutscenes is ruining the whole experience. I have to keep myself entertained throughout the cutscenes because the stuttering is ruining the atmosphere. I have the requirements play the game on Maximum (I5 3570K, 8GB RAM, R9 280x) and yet the game STILL glitches and stutters during conversations. I have tried to do the "60 fps" fix and that made it slightly better but the stuttering is still there.The game runs fine outside of conversations (40-60 +) but the fps just plummet in conversations.

 

I just hope Bioware realise this and fix it because it's ruining a darn good beautiful game.

[Redhands]

 I found the combat animation in DA2 to be repetitive, boring, and too spastically-fast to enjoy.

 

Critical Hit !

 

That's where Bioware failed again with the gameplay. To keep some fun with the combat system they should have raised the mobs hitpoints to get longer fights or they should have get rid off the tactical features for full action profit and, full action doesn't mean non tactical fights. Look at Dragon's Dogma ... once again

[spirosz]

I have just about had enough with this game. I really do love the series and the game looks fantastic on my system but the stuttering in the cutscenes is ruining the whole experience. I have to keep myself entertained throughout the cutscenes because the stuttering is ruining the atmosphere. I have the requirements play the game on Maximum (I5 3570K, 8GB RAM, R9 280x) and yet the game STILL glitches and stutters during conversations. I have tried to do the "60 fps" fix and that made it slightly better but the stuttering is still there.The game runs fine outside of conversations (40-60 +) but the fps just plummet in conversations.

 

I just hope Bioware realise this and fix it because it's ruining a darn good beautiful game.

 

Basically my exact problem as well.  

[jcmuki]

from the way the game controls, to way the tact cam work, and how the UI look, and the stability issues with the PC version, the game was designed around the console version and multiplayer. for all of bioware talk about supportng ,pc gamer, they haven't really much communicating about how they will address the griveances of the pc gamer, just one non-response comment, and it coming up on a week now with no other response from the developer or even the community managers

 

and this isn't even the first time bioware has been like this

like the saying goes: fool me once shame on me, fool me twice.. you would think after certain point consumers would be more smarter, oh well live and learn

[Monica21]

The DirectX crashes are marked as "Solved" on the Tech Support forums and they're clearly not. Not even for the ones loading the new AMD drivers. Could someone take that tag off please?

[Veskin]

/sarcastic mode on

 

I'm sure the EA suits and Bioware are working hard over the weekend to address all these issues!

[Pen-N-Paper]

Bioware has been making PC RPG's for what, about 20 years?  How have they forgotten how to make a PC RPG where you can control the game on a PC?  Yeah, blame EA.  No way did they not know the problems for the PC before release, I had it figured out after about 3 minutes of game play.

 

The amount of frustration I am feeling right now....  Bought the game before release 4 months ago.  Tracked my package, to see it travel the wrong direction around the country and arrive at my home two days late.  Started the install...and BAM!   The 3rd DVD has a read error.  So, after three attempts to install, wasting over 3 hours of time, each time failing at about 85% complete, reverted to the download from Origins.  However, living where I do, my only option for internet is DSL, which means max speed is about 325 kb/sec, but usually means around 200 kb/sec and often slower during peak hours.  (There was a very good reason why I wanted a hard copy to install).  So....about 38 hours later, game is installed, and I open the game.  Get through character generation.  Was not super impressed, have seen better, but was satisfied.  Then I started gameplay....

 

Why break what was not broken?  I prepay for this franchise because Bioware had proven to me that they know how to make PC RPG's.  I would have been happy with DAO graphics and gameplay, with a new story, if they would have kept the DAO controls.  But this is unacceptable.

I agree.

 

But, you know, someone is thinking there is more money to be made selling a console game. Check this out....

 

they will browbeat their subsidiaries into the ground to get that bottom line. The absolute miracle is that Bio got their extra year to develop further, and an extra month to "tweak" a few things--and I don't even want to think about the frustration those on the Bio side probaby had in those meetings.

 

What if this extra year was spent gutting the UI for PC in favour of a Console UI? What if the direction, as far back as Awakenings, was to present a more MMO style of play for consoles rather than RPG for PC? Look at the fetch quest fest that was DA2 (and the exploding body graphics). Check out the DA3 storyline..... and the heavy emphasis on graphics rather than the traditional PC RPG emphasis going as far back as the days of text games.   

 

Thing is, they don't even care and they were probably to much self congratuling to even think about PC players. Why ? cause EA probably decided to make a deal with microsoft to promote crapboxone.

 

We've all been blindsided by our faith in Bioware to do better, but turns out that they sold their soul a long time ago and we'll never see game like DA:O ever again =(

The circle jerk how great the rocks look vs the lack of demonstration of things central to an RPGs audience certainly tends to give a PC RPG player that impression. 

 

As for faith in Bioware. I lost that when I was taken in by DA2. In fact the Awakenings expansion was not as good as Origins - but it piggybacked it so, though I noticed it, I overlooked it. There was talk about Awakenings being rushed, which was the first time I had heard the rumour that the next game (DA2) would be greater. DA2 was not the first DA game to be labelled "rushed." It was glaringly obvious for DA2 though because it was not an expansion so could not piggyback on the DA:O RPG elements and Good Will. It was the game. DLC were later shelved, according to press releases because it meant more time devoted to making DA3 (still going by that name at the time) the best.

 

So I also wonder what that extra year was about.....  I do not believe in miracles.

 

The best way they will takes us seriously is to get a refund for an obvious unfinished PC game, also if we suck it up and accept these limitations this means they can do more of this kind of crap in the future again which is why I do not like those 'PC' gamers who just accept these issues with little worries.

 

This is it.

Frankly, I am upset every time I see someone post "take my money already." I feel emotionally, which is different than I know intellectually, those posters speak for me. It's like standing next to a loud drunk. One knows one is going to be evaluated to the Lowest Common Denominator: the drunk. But these people do not speak to the same quality I want for my entertainment money.

 

So Bioware loses money from folks like me, and maybe they read there is always some lemming willing to fill in the gap of unit sales quota. Maybe they even believe it. But I know in my heart many if not most of the "shut up and take my money" crowd are all talk. And that also hurts because it hurts something I enjoy. And the hurt is compounded when I am made to feel I love an unfaithful lover who is chasing after someone she will never have: take my money already.

 

This needs to be addressed.

 

No **** sherlock, I was a social media manager in a previous job, hence why Im defending them. Community managers, especially at EA, tend to get their hands bound. Look at how horribly SWTOR was managed until recently. Theyre becoming better at it.

And it needs to be addressed at a level way above community manager mouthpiece. It needs to be addressed on a level of governance well above the cubicle of a soical media manager who reports to marketing. It needs to be the CEO. It needs to be the face of the company acting accountable. 25 years experience as counsellor to F500 tells me so. 

[Alec Fortescue]

Hey. I find the game unplayable right now. It's smooth during the gameplay but cut scenes are a slide show. I have a powerful computer and it should not be happening. Eyes hurt too much from watching the cut scenes. :/ Please fix the cut scenes!

 

msi twin frozr gtx 780 ti, i7 4770k, 16 gigs of ram.

[jcmuki]

/sarcastic mode on

 

I'm sure the EA suits and Bioware are working hard over the weekend to address all these issues!

it would funny if when the witcher 3 comes out that the console version has poor control, stability issues and poor ui, instead of the usual where the pc version gets the shaft, then people complaining about the poor console control get told go buy a KB+M if they want better controls

[jcmuki]

As for faith in Bioware. I lost that when I was taken in by DA2. In fact the Awakenings expansion was not as good as Origins - but it piggybacked it so, though I noticed it, I overlooked it. There was talk about Awakenings being rushed, which was the first time I had heard the rumour that the next game (DA2) would be greater. DA2 was not the first DA game to be labelled "rushed." It was glaringly obvious for DA2 though because it was not an expansion so could not piggyback on the DA:O RPG elements and Good Will. It was the game. DLC were later shelved, according to press releases because it meant more time devoted to making DA3 (still going by that name at the time) the best.

 for all the fault of Awakening and DA2 at least the PC controls were intuitive and the UI was acceptable, and it work and had mod support, which is more than what Inquisition is doing

[CarnieHeart]

BTW if you bought this on Origin they will allow you to return it within 7 days of launch.  Regardless of when you DL'ed it.  Just get on chat with customer support, and they will give you a full refund.

 

Unfortunately, you can only get a refund within 7 days if you didn't make the mistake of giving EA Games the benefit of the doubt for more than 24 hours after first playing the game. Dragon Age: Inquisition causes my entire computer to crash every 5-15 minutes of gameplay in spite of it exceeding the recommended requirements, and here's what happened when I asked for my money back.*

 

Mr. Pasetta: Thanks for contacting EA Customer Experience, my name is Mr. Pasetta. How may I assist you today?
you: Hi, Mr. Pasetta. My email address is marshall@weemawee.edu and my name is Nunuvyer Beeswax. My game is broken. I've spent the past 4 days going back and forth with customer service people trying to find a solution, and have spent several hours online looking for a solution of my own. Nothing has worked. It behooves EA Games to give me a refund. ^__^
Mr. Pasetta: Thank you so much for letting us know about your issue.
Mr. Pasetta: I know how displeasing it could be. Please do not worry, we will assist you and will do our level best to get the matter sorted out.
Mr. Pasetta: May I know the game name and Is the game purchased from Origin store ?
you: It's Dragon Age: Inquisition, and yes, I purchased a digital copy directly from the Origin store.
you: You may be the 8th customer service person I've spoken to, but this time I'm going to get my money back. I just KNOW it. 8-D
Mr. Pasetta: Thanks for that.
Mr. Pasetta: Please accept my genuine apology for the way you have been made to feel. We at EA, strive to make our customers have an exceptional experience. Any deviation from this is dealt very critically. Your case definitely merits attention.
Mr. Pasetta: May I have the case id with which you contacted us earlier ?
you: Ok, hold on a moment. I believe there were three.
you: Case IDs: 11111111, 22222222, and 33333333
Mr. Pasetta: Thanks for that.
Mr. Pasetta: I checked and found that 33333333 is escalated and I found this case review is still running from specialist end, and they are still working on it. As soon as this case finish, one of our specialist person will reply you via email then. Since this issue can take few more days therefore I wont be able to commit exact time frame. Though I am hopeful that you will shortly get reply from us. In the meantime, I appreciate your patience and understanding.
you: No, I'm totally tired of this back and forth nonsense with EA customer service. Your company sold me a broken game. I want a refund, please. o__o
Mr. Pasetta: Sorry case id 11111111
Mr. Pasetta: I know how displeasing it could be. Please don't worry we will definitely sort this issue for you. Our studio team is investigating your issue and will be done very soon and they will definitely contact you back with the effective resolution.
Mr. Pasetta: Please have faith in us,  we are embarrassed to ask you to wait for some more time while you have waited so long. Please be assured we will definitely sort this for you.
you: No, I asked for an "effective resolution" days ago. Now I just want a refund. Totally different head, totally. o__o
Mr. Pasetta: We would request you to please wait for now as the case is in the escalations queue and I would not be able to make any changes on your account for this reason.
you: May you spend every holiday ice fishing with your father. 8-(
info: Your chat transcript will be sent to marshall@weemawee.edu at the end of your chat session.

 

 

*Names, email addresses, and case IDs changed to protect the unpopular. 8-(

[Hailstone]

If the player experience was important as they claim, the pc controls would of been fixed long ago.  Any pc gamer that enjoyed either of the first 2 dragon ages could of played this game for 20 minutes and identified all the problems. It is obvious they knew and couldn't be bothered to fix them.

[dlux]

I have just about had enough with this game. I really do love the series and the game looks fantastic on my system but the stuttering in the cutscenes is ruining the whole experience.

I wonder why the cutscenes stutter so much anyway. Battlefield 4 didn't have a problem with that and it uses the same engine.

[Pen-N-Paper]

To be honest, I expect daily updates for the PC, on your plans on how this will be made better or what sort of work is going to be started on. That will show your sincerity in repairing relationships with the PC gamers. This BW post certainly didn't repair mine.

Thrice daily - as the Internet is open 24/7 and this is a global communications hub (serving everywhere except for India, where the game was pulled) . The updates can be as simple as these examples, using specifics rather than platitudes.

 

From the desk of Darrah

so you we have a mess. I just got off the phone with the PC UI department and they say it will take some time....

 

From the desk of Darrah

The PC UI department have made some progress but there seems to be a complication everytime we find a solution. Without going into boring details, it is getting done but slowly.

 

 

From the desk of Darrah

While the PC UI department works hard on their challenges, we have not neglected the patch for X. We intend It to be ready for release in a few hours. Other issues still being worked on, as you can surmise, are: X, Y, Z

 

And immediate updates as they occur. Where is the P.I.O. here?

[Pen-N-Paper]

 for all the fault of Awakening and DA2 at least the PC controls were intuitive and the UI was acceptable, and it work and had mod support, which is more than what Inquisition is doing

Just saying that success is not overnight or is failure. 

[Pen-N-Paper]

Unfortunately, you can only get a refund within 7 days if you didn't make the mistake of giving EA Games the benefit of the doubt for more than 24 hours after first playing the game. Dragon Age: Inquisition causes my entire computer to crash every 5-15 minutes of gameplay in spite of it exceeding the recommended requirements, and here's what happened when I asked for my money back.*

 

 

*Names, email addresses, and case IDs changed to protect the unpopular. 8-(

These are canned "cut & paste" responses. Notice the same vocabulary is used by the EA CS.

[Prophet2233]

Bioware has been making PC RPG's for what, about 20 years?  How have they forgotten how to make a PC RPG where you can control the game on a PC?  Yeah, blame EA.  No way did they not know the problems for the PC before release, I had it figured out after about 3 minutes of game play.

 

The amount of frustration I am feeling right now....  Bought the game before release 4 months ago.  Tracked my package, to see it travel the wrong direction around the country and arrive at my home two days late.  Started the install...and BAM!   The 3rd DVD has a read error.  So, after three attempts to install, wasting over 3 hours of time, each time failing at about 85% complete, reverted to the download from Origins.  However, living where I do, my only option for internet is DSL, which means max speed is about 325 kb/sec, but usually means around 200 kb/sec and often slower during peak hours.  (There was a very good reason why I wanted a hard copy to install).  So....about 38 hours later, game is installed, and I open the game.  Get through character generation.  Was not super impressed, have seen better, but was satisfied.  Then I started gameplay....

 

Why break what was not broken?  I prepay for this franchise because Bioware had proven to me that they know how to make PC RPG's.  I would have been happy with DAO graphics and gameplay, with a new story, if they would have kept the DAO controls.  But this is unacceptable.

 

Well said!

[Pen-N-Paper]

If the player experience was important as they claim, the pc controls would of been fixed long ago.  Any pc gamer that enjoyed either of the first 2 dragon ages could of played this game for 20 minutes and identified all the problems. It is obvious they knew and couldn't be bothered to fix them.

The first communication was for Bioware to take the responsibility for this. That would have been very different from the communication that was used in this topic's very first post.

[publius1000]

gotta say, this is by far the glitchiest BW game I've played at launch. even ME3, as much of a piece of **** as that was, at least it worked properly. the only launch problems i remember with DA2 were that a few quests were bugged and couldn't be completed. but here, man, we've got...

- crashing on start screen

- random directx crashes to desktop

- stuttering dialogue, frequent fps drops (although these have gotten less frequent for me now, only start after like 6 hours in game)

- controls are weird, but you can get used to them.. mostly. just don't try to control any melee characters in combat cause they'll just stand there stabbing the air. i've pretty much given up using my dual-wielding rogue, and given that i'm on nightmare with friendly fire, he's pretty much dead 99% of the time anyway.

- lots of getting stuck on scenery. fade step in particular seems to do weird ****, i once had solas use it up a mountain and he went flying like 300ft in the air.

- pants-on-head retarded AI. i mean sure, even the most basic of hurlocks can 2-hit anyone but the tank, but half the time he'll be running into a rock or just literally standing there watching his friends die. i fought some level 9 merc leader (at level 6-7) who could basically one-shot everyone and after dying to him 20 times in a row (or more), i guess he got tired after killing 3 of us and just stood there taking Sera's arrows for about 15 min. i mean thanks.. but no thanks.

- everyone thinks my male qunari is a female human with relatives in trevelyan or whatever. josephine even had a conversation with me about how i'm a noble and how am i handling the shithole that is haven? i was like ****** i'm a qunari mercenary this is like paris for me.

- radial wheel not working half the time, have to use number keys to select my responses and can't see what kind they are before selecting.

note that these last 4 points aren't even due to a shitty pc port, as you'd expect - they're just.. i mean did anyone test this ****?

 

and yet... and yet despite all that, so far i think it's a fantastic game. gorgeous massive world, tons of **** to do, great story and characters etc. 

[SatsurikuX]

And it needs to be addressed at a level way above community manager mouthpiece. It needs to be addressed on a level of governance well above the cubicle of a soical media manager who reports to marketing. It needs to be the CEO. It needs to be the face of the company acting accountable. 25 years experience as counsellor to F500 tells me so. 

 

If you get a response its either:

- The game director (slim chance and high chance of PR bullshit)

- A dev who knows what he's talking about being forced to say PR bullshit but knows damn well how to twist it so we know what he means

- Community manager

 

You will NEVER get the CEO to address minor issues like this. Its not SimCity or BF4, it runs fine there's just some issues in regards to scaling (UI and TacView) and controls. Thats it!

And uhm a social manager generally doesnt listen to marketing, they listen to PR. Totally different departments.

[HozzMidnight]

 for all the fault of Awakening and DA2 at least the PC controls were intuitive and the UI was acceptable, and it work and had mod support, which is more than what Inquisition is doing

 

Yeah that is what I don't get...the UI and controls for DAI, on the PC, are objectively worse than both DAO and DA2.  How is that possible?  And how are the 'professional' reviewers not dinging the score? The PC version of DAI has an 87 on Metacritic.  DAO has a 91.  DA2...82.

 

If the player experience was important as they claim, the pc controls would of been fixed long ago.  Any pc gamer that enjoyed either of the first 2 dragon ages could of played this game for 20 minutes and identified all the problems. It is obvious they knew and couldn't be bothered to fix them.

 

This is what gets me the most.  Bioware hyped this as a PC game.  If your experience as a PC gamer was limited strictly to Bioware RPGs on a PC...after playing DAI through to Haven you would have a big list of things to fix.  How did BIOWARE not come up with, and address, their own list?

[botfly10]

Having a blast and loving the game overall, but as many have said, please please please optimize the UI for PC.  Here are some things I would personally LOVE:

 

1. Increased camera distance in both regular and tactical view.  For me, this is priority number 1!  I just can't get a good view of the battlefield in order to make tactical decisions.  PLEASE increase the camera distance.  It would make such a massive difference imo.

 

2. It would be amazing if we could move and resize individual UI frames (like in most MMO's).  I realize that probably isn't possible.  So instead, a UI scale slider would be AMAZING.  Also, PLEASE reduce the size of party portraits and the quest list.  Please move them closer to the edge of the screen!  As it is now, they are much too close to being in the middle of the screen and unecessarily block FOV.  Oh, and they are freaking huge.

 

3.  As many people have said, inventory menus are pretty tedious.

 

THANKS!