Post by slipispsycho on Feb 27, 2009 2:15:10 GMT -8
ok i'm offically done with UBI... i had my problems with them before but i decided to put that all behind me because of the reviews the game got, i ended up buying (brand new at new release price) Far Cry 2.
the game is glitched to hell and when i emailed UBI to sort the problems, the responses were fast (a plus) but fast responses are of no use when THEY don't even have a clue how to fix said problems... (my problems ranged from voices in-game not working, to game breaking glitches, both in storyline and graphical: imagine trying to play a MP game where half the map is hidden behind a wall 30 feet high that stretches the enitre length of the map)
i received 'generic' answers and only managed to fix one problem, and that was only AFTER 4 back and fourth correspondences (as in i sent them an email, they replied, that was 1... there were 3 more after that) it's been a couple months so i can't exactly recall every detail, but needless to say, they were less then helpful with everything.
i gave up with getting any help and decided to 'tough it out' so to speak... the game was somewhat still playable (at this point i'm talking about online play, more on the SP below) there was no telling if i would even be able to start the game because the game would crash randomly, or i'd randomly be kicked from a game.... and when i did get to actually play, there was no telling whether or not graphical glitches would be present.
about this time i joined the FC2 forums (from where i got this site address to begin with) looking for people who had the same problems i did, and maybe even a solution... durring my time there i helped people with other problems as i'm not new to computers... (it'll become relevant in a second) granted i couldn't help everyone, because there's just problems with this game i don't understand... maybe probelms i'd expect of a 20-something year old having with his game he'd made while attending college, but not from a major distributor...
then i got banned for calling a mod imcompetent(on slipispsycho)... my exact words were 'are you really that incompetent'... (not actual dates, just to help you understand what happened and why i said that) on december 24th someone had posted a topic asking for help because they could not connect to the far cry 2 servers, and they'd been trying since days earlier to connect with no success (none of these dates corresponded with known down times, so it was obviously a problem he was having locally, possibly router/firewall problems, or even locality problems seeing as this game will only let you connect in certain countries.) then a mod just comes trolling around jan 5th durring an actual downtime digs up his post which had no response since he posted it and says "the server is currently experiencing downtime" and then i responded with the above statement. (although i said more, which was "he was having problems well before the server downtime and he'll likely still have them" then enter: "are you really that incompetent"
i was banned for that. because it's not hard to just rejoin a forum i did again, only this time my name was slippsycho... i even responded to mods and had them respond to me, i really doubt they didn't know it was me, yet again... although i guess it's not impossible... but everything was fine, UNTIL a thread came around asking about when the game was going to be recalled.. someone commented that consoles users are lucky becuase they can just rent the game and that renting out PC is against the law... to which i responded that we're (PC users) left with pirate before you buy becuase so few downoadable demos are put out for games on PC....
someone responded with something like EA wasn't much better, (in terms of working games and customer service) also that piracy is wrong and you should never do it (brown noser anyone? i bet you look at this music library he hasn't paid for 10% of that music, just like everyone else that has internet) and i replied that i've had far more games by EA work for me then i have from UBI (actually so far UBI has fail rate higher then 50% for me... i'm yet to have any unresovable problems from EA) and that if anyone succesfully pirated this game and can play it fine, more power to them, because this game doesn't deserve to cost anyone money...
guess what.. i was banned again... one for ban evasion, and another for 'advocating piracy'... so now i'm not allowed to have an opinion? or it's ok to have an opinion, so long as UBI agree's with it? it's not like i told anyone how to pirate a game or gave any links, i just simply said what is above... that if anyone managed to do it, more power to them... what kinda bullshit is that?
oh yeah, as for SP, this is the most repitive, monotonous POS game i've ever had the displeasure of playing, and let's not even get into how angry i was to pay for it..... get a mission, driver through 5 check points to get to your buddy, drive through roughly 2-3 of them to get to your check point do buddies mission, drive through a few more destroy your original objective, then drive back through 10 of the ones you already cleared, fighting the whole way, just to get a another mission to do the same thing all over again.
ALSO... i was originally playing this game on 2 GB ram, and a Radeon x1950 pro extreme 256 MB.... so i could only play on low-medium settings.... i upgraded my video card and ram, to 4 GB ram and a Radeon HD4870 1GB... and guess what.... even on ultra high settings.... THE GAME LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME!!!! what the fuck is so state of the art about these graphics?
Fall Out 3 looks better, actually FO3 looks better on medium settings then FC2 looks on ultra high.... all the reviews (both professional and MOST of the customer reviews) revere these graphics like they're the most amazing graphics ever seen... and i really don't get it.... honestly they're about what i'd expect from late PS2/early PS3.... (or if you like xbox, late Xbox/early Xbox 360) yet alot of people are holding up these graphics like they're the most amazing thing to come to gaming period (as in nothing prior ever got close to them) they are so far from 'amazing' it's absolutely ridiculous to me....
the game is glitched to hell and when i emailed UBI to sort the problems, the responses were fast (a plus) but fast responses are of no use when THEY don't even have a clue how to fix said problems... (my problems ranged from voices in-game not working, to game breaking glitches, both in storyline and graphical: imagine trying to play a MP game where half the map is hidden behind a wall 30 feet high that stretches the enitre length of the map)
i received 'generic' answers and only managed to fix one problem, and that was only AFTER 4 back and fourth correspondences (as in i sent them an email, they replied, that was 1... there were 3 more after that) it's been a couple months so i can't exactly recall every detail, but needless to say, they were less then helpful with everything.
i gave up with getting any help and decided to 'tough it out' so to speak... the game was somewhat still playable (at this point i'm talking about online play, more on the SP below) there was no telling if i would even be able to start the game because the game would crash randomly, or i'd randomly be kicked from a game.... and when i did get to actually play, there was no telling whether or not graphical glitches would be present.
about this time i joined the FC2 forums (from where i got this site address to begin with) looking for people who had the same problems i did, and maybe even a solution... durring my time there i helped people with other problems as i'm not new to computers... (it'll become relevant in a second) granted i couldn't help everyone, because there's just problems with this game i don't understand... maybe probelms i'd expect of a 20-something year old having with his game he'd made while attending college, but not from a major distributor...
then i got banned for calling a mod imcompetent(on slipispsycho)... my exact words were 'are you really that incompetent'... (not actual dates, just to help you understand what happened and why i said that) on december 24th someone had posted a topic asking for help because they could not connect to the far cry 2 servers, and they'd been trying since days earlier to connect with no success (none of these dates corresponded with known down times, so it was obviously a problem he was having locally, possibly router/firewall problems, or even locality problems seeing as this game will only let you connect in certain countries.) then a mod just comes trolling around jan 5th durring an actual downtime digs up his post which had no response since he posted it and says "the server is currently experiencing downtime" and then i responded with the above statement. (although i said more, which was "he was having problems well before the server downtime and he'll likely still have them" then enter: "are you really that incompetent"
i was banned for that. because it's not hard to just rejoin a forum i did again, only this time my name was slippsycho... i even responded to mods and had them respond to me, i really doubt they didn't know it was me, yet again... although i guess it's not impossible... but everything was fine, UNTIL a thread came around asking about when the game was going to be recalled.. someone commented that consoles users are lucky becuase they can just rent the game and that renting out PC is against the law... to which i responded that we're (PC users) left with pirate before you buy becuase so few downoadable demos are put out for games on PC....
someone responded with something like EA wasn't much better, (in terms of working games and customer service) also that piracy is wrong and you should never do it (brown noser anyone? i bet you look at this music library he hasn't paid for 10% of that music, just like everyone else that has internet) and i replied that i've had far more games by EA work for me then i have from UBI (actually so far UBI has fail rate higher then 50% for me... i'm yet to have any unresovable problems from EA) and that if anyone succesfully pirated this game and can play it fine, more power to them, because this game doesn't deserve to cost anyone money...
guess what.. i was banned again... one for ban evasion, and another for 'advocating piracy'... so now i'm not allowed to have an opinion? or it's ok to have an opinion, so long as UBI agree's with it? it's not like i told anyone how to pirate a game or gave any links, i just simply said what is above... that if anyone managed to do it, more power to them... what kinda bullshit is that?
oh yeah, as for SP, this is the most repitive, monotonous POS game i've ever had the displeasure of playing, and let's not even get into how angry i was to pay for it..... get a mission, driver through 5 check points to get to your buddy, drive through roughly 2-3 of them to get to your check point do buddies mission, drive through a few more destroy your original objective, then drive back through 10 of the ones you already cleared, fighting the whole way, just to get a another mission to do the same thing all over again.
ALSO... i was originally playing this game on 2 GB ram, and a Radeon x1950 pro extreme 256 MB.... so i could only play on low-medium settings.... i upgraded my video card and ram, to 4 GB ram and a Radeon HD4870 1GB... and guess what.... even on ultra high settings.... THE GAME LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME!!!! what the fuck is so state of the art about these graphics?
Fall Out 3 looks better, actually FO3 looks better on medium settings then FC2 looks on ultra high.... all the reviews (both professional and MOST of the customer reviews) revere these graphics like they're the most amazing graphics ever seen... and i really don't get it.... honestly they're about what i'd expect from late PS2/early PS3.... (or if you like xbox, late Xbox/early Xbox 360) yet alot of people are holding up these graphics like they're the most amazing thing to come to gaming period (as in nothing prior ever got close to them) they are so far from 'amazing' it's absolutely ridiculous to me....
