Vael said:
I'm assuming the department that handles things like the website is completely different from the dev team. It may be 2K, and the people in charge may be already on their vacation.
I would hope you don't mix dev and web geeks. Thats never a good thing.
If they are on vacation, that is very poor schedualing on there part.
Looking over this it looks as if I am just complaining to complain. Please don't assume that. I am very happy they got around to patching the game. And from the 2 hours on a huge map I played this morning, it looks better. Still early so I can not say for sure.
Again theres a but. Many people, myself included have been disappointed with the level of communication between firaxis and its customers. Please don't chime in with its take2 and not firaxis. Sorry they signed on the dotted line and they are one in the same right now. "That dog just ain't gonna hunt".
Getting the patch out is great. Letting the users know it is out is great. Just letting a few forums know that are not official parts of the game. Not so good.
This is how the entire release of this game has gone. Half-assed!!
I mean test on un packed files when it will ship with packed files, tech tress to mislabled cds, release a patch, whoops not done, pull patch, release real patch, some mirrors have bad patch file, replace that, again no communication, took a few days for anyone to know it was out, patch doesn't cover the mem problems, work on the patch but don't let your customers know you are, now release a patch, go out to two forums and announce it, mention it on your official website, or list it as a download. Not so much. Could it be that they are using the forum as a beta test of there patch? If so they are being under handed about it by not stating it. If they are not then they are not communicating with there customer base.
Either way they are dropping the ball. Again, please do not come back with well thats take2 not firaxis. They are one in the same now people. Firaxis is a div of take2. If there is a line it is blurry.
From the game just not working to hoping they are working on it. This has been piss poor management calls. How to run a company/franchise into the ground 101.