Communication poll

[Sammi79]

Originally Posted by reggiane

Common guys you must admit this is quite a common way to release a game.
They release a game knowing it is not even remotely near completion without telling their customers anything about that.
It is like buying a new car that does not have a enigine yet and the seats and steering wheel will be delivered after a year or so.

Now they promise thankfully that they will try and fix the game , it will only take one or maybe even two years ---hurray----

If they told me beforehand the realeased game would be unfinished I would not have bought the product and UBIsoft probably would have had a legal issue with it.
So yeah communication is lacking, even though the major problems have been acknowledged and it has been clearly communicated that these issues are being worked on as a priority.
So from now on no more lies, no more secrets, keep us the customers updated.
And please someday tell us the whole story, what went wrong, why was the game released and what really happend to Oleg.
Oh and please stop attacking the people who are complaining about the game, there is nothing wrong with feeling angry at the moment. However, there is a lot wrong with being abusive and/or insulting to either other forum members or employees of 1C whose forum is provided to us all for free.

Firstly, no attacks here, just saying. The real problems come from a lack of regulations regarding the computer games industries, where publishers (who don't care a jot about the content or state of the software product) control the flow of money to the developers, do all the hard advertising and set all the deadlines for release, patches etc... All they care is that they got your money. The correct place to complain about this is with the publishers who unfortunately don't have ears, at least not for you or me. The only thing they hear is $$$ and if you really want them to listen you have to stop giving it to them. If you live outside of Russia, UBIsoft is the root cause of all these problems. 1C seem to me to be doing their best to solve them for us, so lets just give them a chance, they've come through in the past, no?

Hmm the poll seems to be closer to 55%/45% Unhappy/Happy now.

[reggiane]

Ok then let's say it like this...
If they would of told me beforhand that the to be released game was unfinished but
they needed the money to finish the game and keep the legal guys from Ubisoft of their backs... then I would indeed honor such honesty with paying for the game so they would have a chance of finishing it.


We all know they decided not to do that.
Nobody here knew COD was in such a poor product before it was released not even the most loyal fanboys.
Ubisoft knew, 1C knew ..Oleg knew and decided to head for the hills.... digg a foxhole and await the barrage of complaints.
If only they would of told US the customers ...explained the situation and asked us to help them out.... this would be lot different.
so yeah communication was and still is very poor.

[Feathered_IV]

Seeing as Luthier himself posted not so long ago saying how he "feels the weight of his failure" to maintain proper communications with the community, any argument to the contrary is quite useless.

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Seeing as Luthier himself posted not so long ago saying how he "feels the weight of his failure" to maintain proper communications with the community, any argument to the contrary is quite useless.

Yes I agree, unfortunately Luthier words come very cheap these days, what he says and what he does are very seperate things.

[Tiger27]

Well my fanboyism (is that a word) is starting to wear thin, havent been able to play for a while as firstly they messed up the pp on the 109 and now the sounds drop out, a month ago I would have voted "i would like to get a update more often but im not worried"
But now I am voting
"The communication has been poor and not what i would expect, not very happy."

With the supposed release to the US today the silence on all forums is deafening, for the small amount of time it would take to let customers know what is happening, they could win a few sales, they have really dropped the ball on this.

[furbs]

The stuff going on in these forums says alot to me.

all of us would rather be flying.

lets hope the US release is a watershed moment and from here things change.

They really do need to.

[JG52Uther]

Maybe the US release is not seen as important. Is 1c expecting a lot of sales there?
Total lack of any sort of announcement is very strange, so maybe it is delayed.
Would be nice if it were released today, as I hope for a huge patch to be released at the same time.

[retrojet]

Well, at the risk of being shot down... I am currently downloading the US release through Ubisoft and using the same activation code to download through Steam, also..

Just thought someone might be interested is all... don't shot the messenger...
Thanks