Don't get me wrong, in my opinion, they dropped the ball on this game, and that has been well documented for the past week, with a metacritic score of 60 something. But beyond that, they spent probably close to 3 yrs making this game, it sure as hell looked cool/ had grea promos for it on the internet and what not. But I wonder, when they were playing this, they must have known that this game was going to sorta svck. Its not like SD is a [censored] indie funded studio looking to make a quick buck, you can tell they put alot of work into the game, but where did it all go.

Ive never seen a game get so much negative attention like this before, the only other game that comes ot mind would be Final Fantasy 13, APB, and Fallout Vegas.

Hopefully this studio doesnt close, mainly becaus ethere are more lost jobs again, with some people that are relatively talented, atleast the artists, I dont know so much about the engineers.

It has a metacritic score of 71 and yes, it does look like the game will soon go down the gutter, but hopefully the coming updates shall fix it all up. Sure the game has negative attention, but it also has plenty of positive attention as well.

I'm hoping that SD doesn't disappoint. Brink is good, but with a few tweaks it could last a long time and might take the place of Call of Duty in my disc tray. I will stick it out, I only hope my friends have the patience to as well.

Doesn't look to be going downhill (to me anyway) on PS3.

Also, it's currently 69 on XBox 360, 71 on PC, and 73 on PS3.

Itrs the community that svcks also, everytime i log into a game, there's only 3 or 4 humans playing, whats up with that?

what platform?

when i go freeplay on pc i see hundreds of servers...

Yep, the PC is heaving with full servers.
I hope this game lasts a while as I am having a real blast with it, the visual and the playing style are spot on for my tastes.

Yeah, on the 360 it doesn't look like there are that many people in a consistent amount of games. With the number of copies that have been taken back to Gamestop I hope it doesn't die off.

PC player here too and there are always people playing.
Last time I looked my search for servers without passwords was returning 171 active games.
Plenty of players, plenty of fun. And it's pretty high on the Steam stats page (12th at the moment. I saw it at 10 yesterday).
And that's with it still not purchasable in the UK.

Clearly this game was made solely for pc and console gamers got ripped off.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that, it is definitely a console port over to the PC. Especially easy to spot with low res textures CGI cutscenes etc when playing on a triple monitor set up.
But, us PC players actually never got the shaft this time as the port over seems to have been thought about and the game comes out the other end well.

Except that it's solid and plays well all the way through for PS3. Only the XBox isn't solid, and I'm sure they'll patch it.

171?

I find over 1000 servers. Granted, that is worldwide, but still a good number.

Yeah. I think I was limiting some stuff (the filtering could use a little work) and this is in the UK where you can't seem to buy it for PC for some unknown reason. Not available in the steam store... it's like it ceased to exist. I luckily preordered and unlocked it on the 13th so I can play.
Maybe I should catch a tube to SD's offices and ask them what the hell is up with that

GAME stores are full of PC versions and the Limited Edition is only a couple of quid more than the standard edition, well worth the extra cash BTW.

I don't go into GAME stores if I can help it. I pretty much only ever buy online nowadays.
So if it's for sale in the stores WTH can't you get it on steam? That makes absolutely no sense unless the brick and mortar stores are crying about their profits again (not that they actually pander to PC gamers anymore).

Yeah. I got the steam special with the spec ops suit and it was ￡29.99.
Anything else in the limited edition that I didn't get?

The Doom kit as well maybe?
Got both the Doom and the Spec Ops in store version.

I think when they were testing it in their office environment they didnt take enough time to think how it would work in the real world. Having no lobby system is fine if you're all hooked up in a LAN network and all testing together, but in the real world not having a lobby means you never get a full game with human players. And testing it with the people who developed the game is always going to work out better than people who are just starting out. Bottlenecks become easier to get around because the people playing know the game inside and out.

What they should have done is get a random bunch of people in to test it and watched how they played. Then adapted it so the game wasn't tailored to the developers but to real people. Otherwise known as an internal beta.

Hmmm... I'd like the Doom kit but a) I already have the game and b ) I don't want to deal with stinky GAME slaves.
Seriously: that job has got to svck and the guys down my way are quite happy to pass that svckiness onto the consumer free of charge.