Any news on 1.06 ?

You think people should be patient with ... big company mishaps? Recurring mishaps? I don't.

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@PandaTar wrote:

You think people should be patient with ... big company mishaps? Recurring mishaps? I don't.

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I look at it from another angle. What does impatience gain you?

I'm old enough to see forums ablaze for many reasons over the last 20 years. People are unhappy, angry, disappointed and that's all fair enough. Feedback is important. Constructive feedback is better.

But getting upset because it's not happening on your timetable and expecting things that are not realistic won't really change anything in my view...except from increasing your own stress and unhappiness.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't express your anger or impatience, but I do advise tempering it with managing your own expectations. It's just better for your own health really 😉

Take that for what it's worth. Last thing I want to do is tell people how to run their lives. Just feel like it's worth highlighting that some things are worse for yourself than for Bioware.

I'm not having health issues because of a game. Also old enough for that. Old enough too, to see that I shouldn't really comply to a situation in which big companies want to make a tendency of releasing faulty products and imagine that is good for a start? If, in a general tone, people simply sit like polite cows, eating what they are given without saying a word. Do you think, REALLY, it helps improving anything?

On my part, I won't really keep this conversation. We are apparently of very different opinions and they won't match. Might be the difference in countries. 

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@PandaTar wrote:

I'm not having health issues because of a game. Also old enough for that. Old enough too, to see that I shouldn't really comply to a situation in which big companies want to make a tendency of releasing faulty products and imagine that is good for a start? If, in a general tone, people simply sit like polite cows, eating what they are given without saying a word. Do you think, REALLY, it helps improving anything?

On my part, I won't really keep this conversation. We are apparently of very different opinions and they won't match. Might be the difference in countries. 

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When I say it's bad for your health it's just a matter of speech. You are taking things way too literally here.

And you know, I went out of my way to state that it's perfectly fine to express being disappointed and angry. I specifically stated that feedback is important and you come back with a reply as if I'm advocating doing nothing and just comply to with everything? Really? That's what you read in my post?

Since when is managing expectations just accepting everything? If you want to think in only black and white that's your choice but I don't deal in such extremes much at all, so don't apply that to me please. It's unfair and undeserved.

I have explained my share of grievances on this very forum about various things that I am not happy with. All I am saying is that being impatient doesn't help in the sense of unrealistic expectations. THAT IS IT.

What you made out of that is frankly baffling.

Oh and by the way...when a person uses "you" in English it is often used in a general sense and so it  was here. I am not talking about you specifically here anyway.

My 2 cents.....if anyone wants to lean down an pick them up for 2 pennies....

I really really really, don't want them to rush the patch, but I would like more info coming from the company letting us know what is going on.  I PERSONALLY don't have any game breaking bugs, and I saw, in the first two weeks, kinda rushed patches that helped some, and hurt others.  After watching the mixed results of the first two rushed out patches, and the fact I can play the game fine, I would hate to see them rush something out and screwdriver the poop out of my game.  I hate they don't TELL me when to expect a patch(ballpark and how it is going--ie on schedule or hitting a roadblock and needs more time) and what they are trying to address in the patch but it is what it is. 

So I will continue to play my game, wait for the patch and if I finish the game a third time, I may go back and play the series again before coming back to MEA.  The only rumor I have heard on time for patch is May 7.....will be interesting to see how accurate it is. 

Who the hell used their 33-56Kbps connection 20years ago to check some forums.. :d There was like 100k webpages in the whole fakin internet back then. Ps. I remember Soviet Union, vividly.

Edit: Oh right, these have topics, no info on patch.

@EgoMania this isnt bethesda we are talking about here. ea/bioware is SUPPOSED to be the gold standard in quality.

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@MEGAF1UX wrote:

@EgoMania this isnt bethesda we are talking about here. ea/bioware is SUPPOSED to be the gold standard in quality.

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Well I've played all ME games, all DA games and SWTOR for years. And there's more but those are the big names for ya. Although BW does some things well, they surely suffered from poor management decisions for some years now. Maybe you think they're supposed to be the gold standard in quality but I don't know what you base that on because this BW is not the same as the one that wasn't owned by EA years ago.

Now the Mass Effect franchise is still my favourite and I do like a lot of things in ME:A, but I do try to set more realistic expectations. I mean, in the end the game has a lot of issues and needs some fixes badly. But it's also my view that these fixes are not all 5-minute fixes. So a little patience is required, whether we like to wait or not.

As far as BW's communication...well, that's something they don't have anywhere near the gold standard. It's one of their biggest issues in my view.

So you tell me, if I think their communication sucks and this game has a lot of things that need fixing, why do some people think I am advocating accepting everything lying down?

Clearly people don't know me very well. That's to be expected, but I'll tell you one thing about me. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that riles me up more than people putting words in my mouth based on things I never even said, just because it's what they think I meant. I've fought many battles on the forums in SWTOR and some things actually happened.

For me it's simple. I get angry at times. I might be brutal in some of my commentaries, but I do want to apply some nuance and realism to it. If that equates to giving up in some people's minds then that's on them.

So here is my realism on the topic of BW. They're not the gold standard in quality. Now what do you think makes more sense? If they rate a 5/10 currently on many reviews, does it make more sense to try to get them to 7/10 first or does it make sense to demand 10/10 even if that's not realistic?

You see, everybody is free to decide that for themselves but I prefer setting realistic, achievable goals. So let them bring it up a couple of points first before going to the next level, but I no longer believe that Bioware is going to ever deliver 10/10. Do you?

@EgoMania  bioware has been  slacking for a LONG time, ea wouldnt have been able to simply acquire them if they hadnt been sucking already (due in large part to farming out sequels of successful games like kotor to obsidian so they could use them as a scapegoat), that being said baldurs gate, kotor, etc they WERE infact the gold standard. ea didnt buy them to completely suck at their jobs (only in the videogame industry can you make bank by half-a**ing your job), they bought them to improve their stable since they lacked strong RPG titles. ea IS supposed to be the gold standard though, and it offends me that they are tolerating this level of slackery FROM bioware. having called microsoft, EA, and bioware its bioware that is trying to pass the buck. ea can only report the issues THEY receive TO bioware (and obviously microsoft reports their issues to EA), when bioware drags their feet (and theres really no other word for it) they arent punished.. its not like their wages are withheld until the issues are fixed (which they probably should be.. blame it on a bug, if they cry tell them to fix their bugs and youll fix yours).

i have been mulling this over for a while.. considering the decay that bioware has gone through (im not even a mass effect fan, i would NOT consider it my favorite franchise at all) i have come to the conclusion that hunger is the issue. when bioware was at their best they were HUNGRY, they were trying to prove something, and they put their souls into their games. now its almost like they are a 9-5 job with full medical and dental. just some place to work because the grass wouldnt be any greener someplace else.. and the problem is systemic. theres very little hunger in the industry in general (remember when EA got screwed by sony stealing the design for the 3d0? they were furious, so trip went about making some of the best franchises on the planet.. and thats how they got where they are now) and we the players suffer for it. complacency is not the solution though, retail armageddon is. stop supporting trash companies and they will die or evolve. worst case scenario ea goes the way of acclaim and somebody else steps up to fill that void.

for THIS game though every single person on this forum should be ON THE PHONE with ea daily until this garbage gets fixed! its easy to ignore this stupid forum! ignore having to pay operators by the hour to listen to people report the same thing over and over ALL DAY for weeks on end. were gamers, we have the luxury of sitting on our duffs WHILE we play! why NOT fill out the form (it takes literally 2 min.) and have ea call you? they are generally pretty nice people! then you can unload EVERY single issue that irks you to a human (admit it, this forum is mostly deaf ears aside from a couple moderators that are probably actually working like 3 hours a day at it) who then has to file a report and send it up the chain of command.. day after day! eventually theyll realize its cheaper to just fix the game (or shut down bioware for good which judging from this game is about 5 years overdue) than pay the operators to answer the phones.