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Anonymous

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Re: Game Testing

I understand the vast diversity of gaming systems out there, not to mention trying to craft a game for every platform (Which personally seems just a bit greedy to me) is not easy. But rather then creating something that "runs okay" on every system why not take the time, push back the date a couple more months or do staggered releases so you can work out bugs. Rather then this storm of bugs they have now they might have been able to improve on the versions for PC or Consoles before releasing for more resulting in a more sustained product.

Sadly this all reminds me of Early Access games, where a company promises a finished product eventually and never delivers. If EA wass actively hot fixing or even anything for this game I would be more behind the game. As it stands now I have seen little in the way of actual help from EA and it has been the gamers for the most part finding game fixes.

Personally a lot of the debugging in this game I have done has been to system files via hack programs and hex editors just to get the thing to run properly. I gave up after I spent about 5 hours coding rather then playing and just felt so betrayed by the company that I was literally doing their job fixing a game they should not have released for another couple of months at the least.

So while it is unfair to blanket them as being completely useless, I just feel like they rushed it too much. Even on high end machines this game has more isssues then anything. Not to mention the completely solid console states that have very unflexible varibles are having massive problems. That is why I have just a sore hate for EA and sadly Bioware, whom I loved in the past but now am considering never buying another game from either publisher after this and Sims 4.

Just seems like they want us to be unhappy. I did not do this to grab attention, it was more to express my personal disappointment in the company after appreciating them for so long only to watch their slow decay into garbage games to the point I can no longer justify wasting money on their "games" anymore, which is the death of a lot of my favorite franchises now.

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Starb
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11 years ago
I'm kind of in agreement here. I remember when bioware stood for quality. You knew you where going to get a game that would blow your socks off and give you not hours of enjoyment but years, I still play kotor to this day. But you can definitely see a pre EA and post EA bioware. Sadly me and my group of gaming friends where so saddened the day the news came out that EA where buying bioware we just knew they'd sold their soul and that this truly great company would just become another less than Stella production line for quick bucks
Anonymous
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11 years ago
I have been gaming since the 80's and really only had my socks knocked off a few times (see below if you care). But I am the first to post my dissatisfaction with a game if I feel they could of done better in a certain area, as I did with the controls in DAI. (see link) But the reality of today is very few, if any, games are going to glitch free when they hit the market. I will reserve my total DAI review until about a month from now and after the first real update.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Why-on-earth-are-keybindings-mouse-options-so-limited/m-p/4009187#M5380
Games that truly impressed me out of the box, console or coin machine..
The very first "Defender" coin operated game;
SSI's "DragonStrike" PC (I flew a dragon in the 80's, how cool was that)
SSI's Dungeon and Dragons series
Baldur's Gate Series, (Neverwinter came close, but did not knock the left and right socks off)
The very first Ghost Recon, Diablo, Battlefield, Star Craft, Halo, Starwars Battlefront, Skyrim, Gears 3 and the first Modern Warfare.
I would have to say, after that games have got better in the areas of graphics and complication, but sadly my socks have remained on. On a positive note; Diablo 3 had just as many, if not more problems when it launched. But the makers made a real effort to make the game better and with the expansion and feedback from the players they made significant improvements. I hope EA will do the same with their games...
V/R Fawlkon
Game On......!