Alarming silence of Firaxis

I mourn the death of Civ today. It is dead to me now. Nearly four weeks after releasing a patch with game breaking bugs, there is still no word on a patch. I sent their customer service a one sentence question politely asking them if there would be any further patches. As expected they never replied, which is no big deal as I expect that from them now. But Vassalage is STILL a broken concept and the AI is dumber now than in Vanilla.. etc!

Use Bhruic's patch. Its fantastic and I love Vassalage now.
 
I mourn the death of Civ today. It is dead to me now. Nearly four weeks after releasing a patch with game breaking bugs, there is still no word on a patch. I sent their customer service a one sentence question politely asking them if there would be any further patches. As expected they never replied, which is no big deal as I expect that from them now. But Vassalage is STILL a broken concept and the AI is dumber now than in Vanilla.. etc!

WHite ELk, from that other forum? Your the one who gave me these great forest ghx right?

YEs I remember you. :) Sad to hear you civ days are done. Hey you tried civ3's NEW MEM 2 vassel system? (copyright-or not, Embyodead 2007)
Mybe try that before you give up on fun. Or not. Im not sellin Im thankinful and want to pay back best way I know right now, also know Anno2 is complete with Ares 2007 terrain ;)
 
I mourn the death of Civ today. It is dead to me now. Nearly four weeks after releasing a patch with game breaking bugs, there is still no word on a patch. I sent their customer service a one sentence question politely asking them if there would be any further patches. As expected they never replied, which is no big deal as I expect that from them now. But Vassalage is STILL a broken concept and the AI is dumber now than in Vanilla.. etc!

I also sent a question a few weeks ago asking how to fix the oos problems from 3.13 or if they were going to release another patch. They did reply after a few days but only by asking if I could give them a screenshot. Do they not know what oos errors are?
 
I also sent a question a few weeks ago asking how to fix the oos problems from 3.13 or if they were going to release another patch. They did reply after a few days but only by asking if I could give them a screenshot. Do they not know what oos errors are?

Reply was probably sent by the same genius in charge of the testing team :lol:
 
User mods can't fix the multiplayer out of sync issues or the fact that Firaxis introduced different version issues for Warlords and Vanilla with this patch.
Actually they can. Check out the Master of Orion 3 forums to see what Bhruic has done there.
 
To help everyone understand the patching process better, I have posted a thread title "The Process of a Patch" in the General forums. I'm hoping this helps explain why a patch takes as long as it does. Enjoy!

Not to be negative, but while your post is a good thing for noobs to know about the process, this thread is mainly about the fact that Firaxis hasn't even said they'll be fixing the errors they created in 3.13

All most of us want from Firaxis right now is for them to say, "Yes, there will be another patch eventually."

Then we'd be content with the world... for a while ;)
 
Not to be negative, but while your post is a good thing for noobs to know about the process, this thread is mainly about the fact that Firaxis hasn't even said they'll be fixing the errors they created in 3.13

True, but a lot of the arguments in this thread dealt with the extended time period of the patch and why we haven't seen or heard of another one. I was hoping this might explain some of that.
 
Makes sense.

Alot of people do seem to think that Firaxis should just knock out a patch on a thursday afternoon that will fix the bugs from 3.13

You're like good friends with them. You should convince them to post a note saying they'll be making 1 more patch with ONLY bug fixes. Then we could lock this thread and start one called "Whining Because The Patch Is Taking So Long", which would at least be fun :D
 
There will be another patch at some point, but it's going to be a little while, so hopefully you guys can be patient. :)

Jon
 
There will be another patch at some point, but it's going to be a little while, so hopefully you guys can be patient. :)

Jon


Are you really a Firaxian ?

Well, if so, this is just what I was waiting for and I thank you very much for your post that witnesses you are still caring about customers :thumbsup:

Please 2 things :

1 ) Every now and then please make a short post lkike this just to chat a bit with your fans

2 ) Take into deep consideration what the golden boy ( aka Bhruic ) did


Thanks a lot in advance


P.S. beeing you aged 22 are you for real the lead Designer ?
 
Snoopy on Apolyton also confirmed that there would be another patch.

Wodan
 
There will be another patch at some point, but it's going to be a little while, so hopefully you guys can be patient. :)

Jon

Awesome, thanks for letting us know. I think Bhruic and the BUG/BAT mod team will keep us satisfied in the meantime. I truly appreciate the moddability in Civ4 that makes this possible!
 
Are you really a Firaxian ?

Well, if so, this is just what I was waiting for and I thank you very much for your post that witnesses you are still caring about customers :thumbsup:

Please 2 things :

1 ) Every now and then please make a short post lkike this just to chat a bit with your fans
Well, I try to poke in here when I can. As Alex said before, we've posted here because we care about Civ and the community, because we're fans ourselves. There's a lot of things we're responsible for here at Firaxis, and posting here isn't among them. The opportunities we get are based on when we can spare the minute/brainpower. ;) I used to post here a lot more (as evidenced by my post count of nearly 2000 :eek:), but it's a lot harder to find the time these days. Plus we can't just talk about whatever is going on freely, as much as we might want to. :)

2 ) Take into deep consideration what the golden boy ( aka Bhruic ) did

Thanks a lot in advance
We are definitely appreciative for the work Bhruic has done. Because of the way things work at a big company, we can't release patches very often, so his work to improve BTS helps both us and you guys out there. I wish it were possible to put stuff out more often, but that's not always how it goes.

P.S. beeing you aged 22 are you for real the lead Designer ?
Alex and I were both designers for BTS, and yes, I'm actually 22. ;)

Jon
 
Well, I try to poke in here when I can. As Alex said before, we've posted here because we care about Civ and the community, because we're fans ourselves. There's a lot of things we're responsible for here at Firaxis, and posting here isn't among them. The opportunities we get are based on when we can spare the minute/brainpower. ;) I used to post here a lot more (as evidenced by my post count of nearly 2000 :eek:), but it's a lot harder to find the time these days. Plus we can't just talk about whatever is going on freely, as much as we might want to. :)


We are definitely appreciative for the work Bhruic has done. Because of the way things work at a big company, we can't release patches very often, so his work to improve BTS helps both us and you guys out there. I wish it were possible to put stuff out more often, but that's not always how it goes.


Alex and I were both designers for BTS, and yes, I'm actually 22. ;)

Jon

whatever you do, DO NOT POST A TIME FRAME! it will just make people even more mad if and when you dont hit it.
 
Being 22 means you've probably been doing this for 6 or 8 years, which in other fields (like Accounting) would correspond to 28-30 yrs.

So, in "dog years", that seems right in line. :D

Wodan
 
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