The number one thing they sorted out?
So after 7 months the tech help forum isn't choc a block with people having these exact same errors in 1.19j?
Cause when I looked 5 minutes ago it was.
Have a look on the Distant Worlds forum for a decent comparison. 4X game came out last year. More complex game mechanics and real time. Programmed by one guy. Fixed and updated by one guy.
I see about 3 issues, and they are trivial game mechanic problems where users would rather a game played a certain way or favoured certain aspects of gameplay.
While on this forum you've for a tech help full of people with CTD's and OOM's. From my perspective the tech forum looks much the same as it did 6 months ago.
I couldn't give a flying pig what efforts Stardock devs made. I don't care how much you support their work or hammer those who have bought a game that fails to even play to a conclusion. Why should I?
Fact is the game is now 7 months old - and for many mnay people it just flat does not work - at all.
I'm glad your enjoying it - really I am (not sarcastic) It gives me hope that one day I will.
But telling me that I should "STFU" and that the good intentions of the developer should suffice to appease those who cannot play it is a cretins argument. "Pull the ladder up - I'm all right Jack"
I note both Frog boy and the fanboys turned to personal insults and threats as well. I use "STFU" in quotes - how much lower do you plan getting? Is that how you put a valid point across? Rudeness and violent threats?
That aside - I'm glad you are alright - I'm happy that the game plays for you.
But for me and many many many others - who have stayed patient and tried every fix and configuration that the devs have offered, sunk dozens of hours into trying to get the game to work, only to come across the very same issues as on release day (across many different hardware configurations) then this is a poor show.
I've had games that haven't worked before. Many of them. I had Space Shuttle in 1994 that required a keycode that failed and slowed the game down 1000%. I used Lenslok on Elite for the Spectrum in 1985, the coloured bar sheet on Jet Set Willy - recently I've had to play Far Cry 2 in wiondowed mode to get past the menu, and I've given up on several games entirely. (Silent Hunter V, Gary Grigsby's War in the East only a couple of weeks ago)
But I have tried EWOM on 5 totally and completely different machines with not one shared companent betwween them. Differnt processors, operating systems, GFX solution -ram configs - the lot.
It fails on all of them.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The 7 month path to a game that still does not work has been paved with fanboys saying we should be happy that Stardock are "making the effort".
The promise of "effort" has worn very thin. It means very little when the result is the same as it was last Fall.
Do I care about being banned?
Nope -not one bit.
Do I want to play EWOM as described.?
Yeah - too right I do. But feeling sated and pacified by the talk of all this "effort" now has no value. As far as completing the game goes 1.19j might as well be 1.0 - while I can appreciate that the devs are working on the game, and I applaud and thank them for that - it means very little if the game fails for many in the same way as it did 7 months ago. While that remains the case - I will continue to be cheesed off about it.
If I've targetted a mythical strawman here - someone please point out where. My vexxation seems pretty well directed at a core issue from where I'm sat - but I'm open to correction.
As for digging a hole that I may not be able to get out of. I have no idea what you are talking about. Threats? No idea. Banned from this forum? More flames from fanboys?
Really? A hole i've dug? Who cares?
Unless you know what school my kids go to or my bank details I couldn't care-a-less about your childish veiled threats. Get a grip.
Abuse and veiled threats - great arguments fanboys. I hope the devs are proud to have you as such diligent avatars
Scritty
