» Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:43 pm Many of you, however, are on here criticizing THEM for complaining. These issues have been known by Crytek since the Demo release. That was a MONTH ago. Crytek has done NOTHING to fix the issues, and you are saying to be patient and wait. How long do you expect people to wait until they get what they paid for?
Are any of you willing to send ME $70+ and wait while I decide if I'm going to give you anything for your money?
AND what exactly has this company ever done for ANY of you, that you would take their side when they are so obviously in the wrong here?
I am so sick of hearing people say "lots of games these days have to be patched". Just because people do it, does NOT make it right! Millions of MURDERS occur daily, so we should allow those killers to go free? Lots of people are doing it!
It is NOT acceptable to release a faulty product into the marketplace, and if you sit back and accept it merely because it's happened before, you dishonor the memory of your forefathers who took up arms, died in political prisons, and published underground newspapers to give us the society we live in today! My grandfather died on the shores of a foreign country, so that I would have the RIGHT to complain when I'm given a shoddy product!
It's this kind of blind acceptance that allowed Hitler to attempt genocide in WW II! Most of the people of Germany didn't agree with him killing persons of the Jewish faith, but because no one stood up and tried to stop him, it was allowed to proceed! BECAUSE NO ONE STOOD UP AND SAID "NO"!
Now I'm not saying that we should compare a faulty video game to the Holocaust, but the underlying factors are the same. If we as a community accept this, it will continue to happen, and we'll see bigger problems on more games, and get longer wait times for the fixes.
20 years ago, as a member of the Gaming Community, I used to get Beta copies of games for free, months before the release date, and I would Beta Test those games, and send my input back to the Devs. They would then fix the bugs, and make changes based on the responses from the Testers, and release a full working game. Patches back then were to add content, or extra missions/features. Nowadays, we pay $60+ for the privilege of being a games' Beta Tester. YES it happens a lot, but THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT!
I am daily grateful that our ancestors had the intestinal fortitude to stand up and DO something when they saw they were being wronged, and many of them DIED for that privilege! You people, however, only have to write a letter or post. Maybe return the game until they fix the issues, but you're not willing to do even THAT!
You act like a bunch of sheep or cattle, shuffling along, where-ever they care to point you, and the only contribution you make to this world is DUNG!
This needs to be that straw that breaks the camel's back! We have to tell ALL the software developers out there that we will NOT accept half-finished titles. We will NOT accept it when you promise us features, then don't include them last minute - with no notification! If we do not stand together on this, it WILL only get worse! The time has come people, to stand together as a community and say NO MORE! Will YOU be a human being with rights and freedoms, or would you prefer to be a cow, going through life being herded where the farmer wants you to go?
THE CHOICE IS YOURS whether you decide to use it or not.
