snaFU73 Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 85 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 14 Topic Count: 34 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 514 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 139 Achievement Points: 3113 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 3 Birthday: 01/30/1973 Device: Macintosh Share Posted January 26, 2011 As with most everyone else, I am very pissed about how Black Ops was released unfinished. It shows what happens when a major gaming company's greed outweighs the needs of those making them rich. I read the article below this morning..... It is good to see something being done. Call of Duty: Black Ops reported to Office of Fair Trading Independent pressure group Gamers' Voice is to report Activison to the Office of Fair Trading after they failed to respond to a letter regarding the buggy and 'unfinished' Call of Duty: Black Ops. Gamers' Voice - established in 2009 by MP Tom Watson - issued an open letter to Activision on December 22, asking the mega-corporation what they were going to do to 'recompense' purchasers of the PC and PlayStation 3 versions of Black Ops, of which the group had been 'inundated with complaints from people who have bought copies'. Activision were offered one calendar month to reply, and have so far remained silent on the issue. Talking to IncGamers, Gamers' Voice Head of Industrial Relations Chris O'Regan said "As a result of their inaction we will test the might of government agencies against Activision. We can only hope this brings about some litigious action. These agencies do exist to protect our rights as consumers, let us see if they can fullfill their remit on this pressing issue.“GV wish to set an example with Activision to ensure games are not released in an unfinished state. If litigation is initiated, then a precedent would be set. In other words, publishers will have to reconsider releasing unfinished code in the future, in the UK at least.”O'Regan commented that it could take months for the government to start official action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:30 AM Device: Windows Share Posted January 26, 2011 Jolly good show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DEEJAYKEG Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted January 26, 2011 Not sure if it'll result in any action but it makes a point. Thanks for the informative post snaFU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Ruggerxi Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 6 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 184 Topic Count: 2827 Topics Per Day: 0.53 Content Count: 11870 Content Per Day: 2.21 Reputation: 12948 Achievement Points: 106435 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 123 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 08/25/1976 Device: Windows Share Posted January 26, 2011 Hang these fuckers by their balls and get some new management in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Unchileno Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 101 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted January 26, 2011 I hope they fix it soon...Cant wait to play it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted January 26, 2011 UnChileno I hope they fix it soon...Cant wait to play it.. At the risk of speaking too soon, I played a succession of games, the other evening (maybe seven or eight in a row) without the sucker freezing up. But the server kept crashing and throwing us all off... Maybe the last patch fixed the problem even though the problem wasn't listed in the intended fixes! At least it gave me a chance to play S&D for the first time (I hope it was the last time!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hardcore Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 86 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 223 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1824 Content Per Day: 0.34 Reputation: 464 Achievement Points: 13395 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 5, 2022 Birthday: 06/29/1967 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Ok. For the crashes on our servers. We did find a issue the other day and a couple crashes was caused by us exploring what the problem is. For those that was on coms. I did drop in to apologize for this. While looking into the problem. We found that there was a server side patch on the servers that the tball and suntzu installed. It seemed to fix the crashes we caused. Yeah. Yes there is a coupe ci's but all 3 of our servers are in the same area and they have been getting hit by wheather. Only time will tell. For this thread. I see possible good and bad in this. Good. Maybe something will get done. Now bad. If something comes of this. The fact that game makes will see we are going to take it and a big delay in new games to come out or not to come out.Especially true for the pc user because a game for the pc is harder to straighten out then any others. To many variables in system configs and setups. I am a big fan of the ghost recon series games and they delayed the release of that game for issues. Personally, I am glad that they did this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Pharticus Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 1320 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 611 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 357 Achievement Points: 4498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/14/1976 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I think it will have a more negative effect than positive. May steer these software companies to drop the PC side and only focus on consoles. It's easier to develop a game on consoles where all the hardware is the same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
snaFU73 Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 85 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 14 Topic Count: 34 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 514 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 139 Achievement Points: 3113 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 3 Birthday: 01/30/1973 Device: Macintosh Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Pharticus I think it will have a more negative effect than positive. May steer these software companies to drop the PC side and only focus on consoles. It's easier to develop a game on consoles where all the hardware is the same... Unfortunately, that seems to be the trend for gaming companies that release games on the 3 main platforms. Once, the consoles got the port from the popular PC games. Now the PC is getting the port from games that originally were made popular on the PC itself. Hopefully Activision/Treyarch will stick to their word and release MOD tools for Black Ops. Then the PC community can show the major advantages we have over the console. I expect, if they do release the mod tools, it will after they have squeezed as much money as possible out of the download content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WolfTiS Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 1130 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 216 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2267 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 586 Achievement Points: 17291 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 12, 2021 Birthday: 04/02/1948 Share Posted January 26, 2011 All we can do is wait and see as it's all speculation at this point anyway. Thanks for the heads up snaFU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted January 26, 2011 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 248 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3484 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 1843 Achievement Points: 22909 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Android Share Posted January 26, 2011 I tihnk treyarch should just keep out from making the COD games....because if they cant fix the problems by the time release date is out..then why carry on? we had the same problem with cod5 >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CplMOFO Posted January 27, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Activision is a on a roll.... They are publishing Modern Warfare 3 in November this year... My bet is that they will release mod tools for Black ops a little after MW3 big sales numbers will be achieved.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Pharticus Posted January 27, 2011 Member ID: 1320 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 611 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 357 Achievement Points: 4498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/14/1976 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I'm not going back to Black Ops until the mod tools are released. If I can't play freezetag, I won't play. Besides, the maps seem to be too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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