Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

[Capt.Hook]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

I think you will find its not the fault of the over worked underpaid programmers or the rest of the workforce, after all they have achieved a great game obviously in a ridiculously short deadline set by none other that ‘EA’ thus the problems with it.

The same goes for the patches, its sad but true and the way the word works. For every person working on a patch or hot fix, is one less working on current projects, one more payroll going out of EA’s budget which has no financial bring back.

EA are very clued up on how things work. They are huge because they have found a business formula that works and just as all of us here have bought BF2 KNOWING what all the other EA games have been like… we will again because simply, the games are pretty damn good.

Each EA game forum has the exact same threads mirrored, does not matter who the game team was, EA are the boss and they say how long you have and when it comes out. Buggy games, does it matter who else are you going to buy from, if you look at the boxes there really are not many games that are not EA is some for or another.

[OriginalSnoozer]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

Clearly not many of you have ever worked for a software manufacturing company.
The developers (DICE) can have any number of issues on their todo-list, unless someone(=EA) is willing to pay them to fix them, they will never be released.
DICE and EA has probably an agreement saying that DICE are obligated to develop the game and for example two patches after that.
When that agreement has been fulfilled (=now) any number of patches must be settled again with EA. DICE will not likely develop and release patches that noone pays them to do, no matter how much they want.

[Yezo]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

The programmers clearly know what they are doing if they can sucessfully make a game of this magnitude. They do not, however, have hours and hours to sit around testing their creation: that's what the testers are for. I think poor testing/feedback combined with tight deadlines and general crap from EA sort of 'cramp dice's style', if you follow my meaning.

And if you're saying the programmers are rubbish and don't know what they're doing simply because there are bugs...then you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

Just because people can make a game doesn't mean they know what to do. You have to be incompetent not to fix a byte value of a player and make sure its replicated to all clients (The reason behind the nametag bugs.) If you cant fix that within one patch (its excusable for the initial release, but for the 3rd patch, you just have to be plainly stup*d to miss it) then you shouldn't be programming.

If these guys call themselves experienced then I'll laugh at them. A Textbook freshie from University would know better than they do. IF they try and get somewhere else in the field of CS I'll laugh. I know my manager will reject anyone from EA.

[jonnysanchez]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

EA makes bad games. This is the way of the universe. All we have to do is wait for someone to do something awesome with BF2 just like what was done with BF1942(Ex. Desert Combat)

desert combat help make bf2, what do you have to say now?

[alecs36]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

Anyone else not getting their rank achievement bar up to date??? ever?? it's alwase blank! it never tells you how much time untill your next rank, never! and i've gone through 2 ranks and i've still never seen the bar go up at all.

New patch, we need, cmon. How come we had this before the patch? isn't the patch supposed to help?

[PimpYo]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

Anyone else not getting their rank achievement bar up to date??? ever?? it's alwase blank! it never tells you how much time untill your next rank, never! and i've gone through 2 ranks and i've still never seen the bar go up at all.

New patch, we need, cmon. How come we had this before the patch? isn't the patch supposed to help?

the 1.03 patch didnt fix things, it traded things that are broken.

[imported_fvbyfv]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

"EA makes bad games"


Lets go slow...DICE makes BF2, EA publishes it.

[DeadlyRabbit]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

This type of thing doesn't suprise me coming from the Tribes: Vengeance community where we were told over and over again about patch that never did show up.

Video game companies have figured out the best way to save money is to not bother supporting a game for more than a few months after release. I am sure they have found that a patch doesn't sell more copies of a game, it mearly brings back a few people that have already bought the game. The only way you are going to get decent support beyond the short term is to play a pay to play game.

[Teaves]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

For example, VALVE, those guys haven't got many bugs in there game (HL2, CS:S, ....), but they bring patches out nomather what, and keep doing that

hahahahahahah funniest thing i have EVER read in this forum :laugh: :laugh: CS is completly screwed still, every patch measn more people can't play, the LAST patch valve released made it umplayable for about 50% of the people, lol, notice how BF2 has more players then CS:S, its no coincidence.

ROFL i just looked it up and regarldess of VALVE delaying HL2 for over a year because it wasnt ready, they have relaesed 27 steam updates since release (IE 27 patches) you whiners can't make you mind up, lol, not enough patches, too many patches....... not forgetting EA also OWN HL now as well, so "EA SUCKS" apllies equally

As i said that post made me day, i always knew there were delusional characters in this forum, but to say that CS;S hasnt got many bugs is plain lauaghable, it EASILLY has more bugs then BF2 ands yet has been "finished" for over 2 years (allegedly)

[kcirtap1]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

My freakin' god ppl,
because of the previous whinings and petitions Dice/EA,
are more carefull to post anything as the community showed in the past
that if the slightest mistake is made there is always some crap petition started,
flame wars on several community boards etc. due to people getting impatiened,
wich actually are not helping the BF community at all.

Funny how thousands can't even install the patch...
then i guess the player number shown on Gamespy's stats page must be just
fake?
+15k players all day long.

[ledbythereaper]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

Wow EA dont even make Battlefield 2, why can't people understand this?

[imported_Champion]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

Im not talking about the filters on the bottom. I only have 3 enabled, and have never had more than that. I used to be able to type a word in the top section under name or map, and it would search all of the found servers for matches. It doesnt do that any more. Whenever I type something into there, it comnes back with zero servers. The only way I can get it back to normal is to quit the game and reload it. I loved having it the other way becuase it made it so easy looking for a specific server or map. It isnt a game killer for me, and I still play the game, but it was something that worked and now doesnt after the patch. Even if they never fixed it, I would still play the game, but I would lose a little more respect for EA/Dice.

Hit Update Servers then Apply Filters. Works every time.

[Dloan]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

My freakin' god ppl,
because of the previous whinings and petitions Dice/EA, are more carefull to post anything

Are you stupid or something? There are bugs still in the game that have been there since release. Now, you being a PR guy from EA, do you say :-

"We have no plans to fix these outstanding issues" or "We are trying to fix these issues but some are proving more difficult to track down than we would like".

Going with the first statement doesn't sound like they're being careful to me...

Wow EA dont even make Battlefield 2, why can't people understand this?

"EA now holds a total of 6,044,720 shares, a controlling interest representing 59.8% of the outstanding capital and votes in DICE."

[David Champion]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

hahahahahahah funniest thing i have EVER read in this forum :laugh: :laugh: CS is completly screwed still, every patch measn more people can't play, the LAST patch valve released made it umplayable for about 50% of the people, lol, notice how BF2 has more players then CS:S, its no coincidence.

ROFL i just looked it up and regarldess of VALVE delaying HL2 for over a year because it wasnt ready, they have relaesed 27 steam updates since release (IE 27 patches) you whiners can't make you mind up, lol, not enough patches, too many patches....... not forgetting EA also OWN HL now as well, so "EA SUCKS" apllies equally

As i said that post made me day, i always knew there were delusional characters in this forum, but to say that CS;S hasnt got many bugs is plain lauaghable, it EASILLY has more bugs then BF2 ands yet has been "finished" for over 2 years (allegedly)

Wow talk about the blind leading the blind.

Steam is a great system to put out small fixes for all their games, not just CS:S, it optimizes in game browsers, menus, gives news, gives updates, adds maps, adds content, adds more levels (episodes for HL2), allows purchasing of games and provides patches... Among other things.

To say they have bugs in one game and haven't done anything to fix them is crazy-talk and to say they are only fixing one game is just as crazy.

Every game has glitches and to say it is glitch free would be an oxymoron, because there's no such thing as a glitch free game... It may appear glitch free but there's always something.

I thought CoD:UO ran very smoothly after the latest patch and couldn't figure out why people were saying it still has bugs, but it does.

BF2 has this great system to update stats in a matter of minutes, why can't they have something in place to update game content/fix problems the same way... They have our ID's (Email/User-names etc...).

People try to produce ideas as to how EA/DICE may fix problems with a fine game and other people flame them for trying... It's a great world we live in.

If a company produces a game to the entire community's liking it'd be short of a miracle. But, arguing in a forums for no apparent reason when someone is trying to resolve a problem is as pointless as spitting into the wind.

[kcirtap1]

Re: Ea position as of October , 1h31pm

@ DLOAN

Not as stupid as you.

My freakin' god ppl,
because of the previous whinings and petitions Dice/EA, are more carefull to post anything

Are you stupid or something? There are bugs still in the game that have been there since release. Now, you being a PR guy from EA, do you say :-

What does bugs have to do with my statement WHY Dice/EA are holding back on the info?
READ or stay in School before you call me stupid.

And why should i be a PR guy?
Just because it's not obvious to you??
Or because i do not experience your bugs at all?
I give you an explanation and you stamp me off as a ****ing fanboy?
Go F yourself.

And yes EA is SHAREHOLDER (read not the OWNER) of DICE.
Still it is a fact that no EA employee worked on coding of Battlefield 2.