Ok so yeah the 4th patch has made a ton of people upset, and yes I am in that boat with them, but what really pisses me off is the following:
I purchased DAI Deluxe Edition for my PS4. Only to turn around and see BW make the Deluxe Edition free to all.
Further I payed for the season pass, expecting new and exclussive content, only to witness the Multiplayer add-on also be made free to all.
So why do I have a reason to be pissed off, let's see....
You Dev's at BW have failed to deliver anything of new content per the Season Pass that you have not made feely available to everyone else.
You force console users to mandatorilly patch in order to not only play online but so as to have access to DA Keep in order to import our custom world states.
You have nerfed the only thing that made the ridiculous issue of farming and replay value right out of the game.
And to make matters worse you have solely catered every single patch based on interaction with the PC community.
Now personally I would like to see some fixes made, reinstate some of the features that console users have asked for, fix known bugs instead of targeting exploits, and for the love of all that is holy start working on/releasing new content that people have paid and are waiting for.....
I have suggested that a downloadable version of the DA Keep be made that will allow colsole users to generate their custom world states, and be able to IF THEY SO CHOOSE uninstall the forced patches and play with a glitchy version 1.0...... which to me right now is far more preferrable than awaiting for you to actually provide a measure of support to the console user community.
- there is no season pass for DA:I, multiplayer is free, you buy your packs with game money. This is for all platform. I am sorry you got had by Gamestop.
re: http://forum.bioware.../#entry17285888
- multiplayer is as was ME3: a big promise, with ME3, they didn't deliver, they promised they will this time. Don't really know, don't really care, I've played a few times, I don't like it.
- Patches are forced on everyone, PC & consoles to play multiplayer. I'm not even sure I can play without the patch in single player...
- There is a beta patch for PC, yes, it is true, it is not for consoles. A beta has regular changes, by nature, and going through MS&Sony certification process for every patch would be troublesome. Besides, over 95% of the bugs are platform independant, the main issues for PC are the controls as most of us don't use controllers, but a good ol' mouse&keyboard setup and the game was very difficult to play that way.
- Console users aren't ignored, but they don't need their controls redesigned. And the beta patch is not publicly available afaik, only for those who signed on the beta.
- if you think being a beta tester is cool because you play the game before everyone else, well, multiply your current frustrations by 1000, that is what it feels being the beta tester of an unfinished, often unstable product when you just wanna play to relax a bit
It takes dedication and commitment to provide constructive feedback.
- You feel ignored because you overpaid for a product that was not to your liking, and many people feel like you do, it is not exclusive to console players. In fact, PC players believe the Consolers are the spoiled ones with this game
So maybe, just maybe, there are still many unfixed bugs for all platforms and we have no recourse but to wait and learn our lesson to stop pre-order their games and be convinced by rewiewers who don't actually play the game like we do?