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Originally Posted by Madfish
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Every person that posts on a web forum should know that there is something like game reviews or customer experience reports out there. So no should suffer from the scenario you described.
In most (all) game reviews I saw CloD was trashed. So those rants are very boring and complete lies because your situation is no ones but your own fault.
Don't you think you could have avoided your situation by just reading and not buying? It's like marrying the next girl you see just because you once had a good experience with one girl - usually you evaluate before acting if it's important to you. That also goes for money.
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I have to disagree with you here.
Myself and many others had been following development of the game for well over a year and in our enthusiasm for the game had registered pre-orders.
In the run-up to release there was a huge amount of passionate debate
about the quality of what was being demonstrated by the devs. Some voices were very loud in questioning the state of the game but the general consensus view was that things would be 'alright on the night' as it were.
In my own case I found it easier to trust in the devs integrity - they never spelt out ANY potential issues at that stage - than to put too much store in the likes of what people like Tree were saying. There was always a believable reason/excuse from the devs to cover the various issues raised. It was possible to dismiss a lot of the critics as chip on the shoulder cynics.
The actual Russian release became a little like a casino game - no-one knew if the ball would land on red or black until then. When the actual state of the game became apparent the shit-storm started. I still remember feeling sick as a parrot at the news coming out on that day.
I kept my pre-order though for better or for worse. Still had some belief that it couldn't
actually be that bad and wanted to support the game.
But to say we all went into this in full awareness of the state of play is wide of the mark.
edit: I'm wrong on one issue there - the devs did announce fairly late on that the dynamic weather and campaign would not be in the initial release but there was no mention of performance issues, epilepsy filter or anything like that until after release