Game News The Witcher: Enhanced Edition²

[Licaon_Kter]

Did Bethesda tech-support recommend they re-install their operating system to resolve a known bug? You know, like CD Projekt did for The Witcher?

let me quote that for you:

I tried registering the game multiple times but it didn't work due to some browser error with cookies. I asked for advice on forums but nothing they said worked, then I e-mailed the tech support and they said that it's a known error and that if nothing worked then the only way to fix it is to reinstall windows.

which translates to: ATARI said i should reinstall Windows, as in not CDP, as CDP does not handle registration issues besides what is mentioned in the FAQ, and does not reply by email ( or if you have proof of that do show us )

 

[Ausir]

What, they add NEW CONTENT they didn't have to and you just bitch and whine at them for it?

The achievements are for the DLC you have to pay for.

free added content : checked

The achievements are just added, but not obtainable until you buy the DLC - it's just part of the hype for the DLC (otherwise they'd just add them with the DLC itself).

You don't have to download the patch if you don't want it.

Actually, if you buy the DLC, the "patch" that breaks all mods is installed automatically, and people had to find a way to downgrade it.

 

[RainSong]

what king of hype are we talking about?

the one that consist of one little news in whole web writen with font no.4 in fear that DU or Skyway could notice it?

damn this shameless CDP guys, how dare they inform us about patches?

 

[Monocause]

CDP, as we know, is in a financial shithole of sorts and is trying to rejuvenate the public interest in TW. Can't blame them for that.

I also can't blame them for supporting the game they made, whatever their reason for it.

What's there to bitch about here? It's a minor add-on like thing that usually doesn't even get any attention beside clicking the 'download' button if someone's interested. Give a fucking break people, I can't believe you don't have more important stuff to get emotional about.

 

[FeelTheRads]

What the hell do you mean? Announcing it on the official site instead of just changing the download and waiting for people to find out by themselves? THAT"S HYPE MAN! HYPE!

Btw, Blizzard also sucks. They keep releasing updates for their games and Diablo 2 + expansion costs the same as a full game. Fucking bastards! Keeping the game out of the bargain bin, it's horrible what people do these days.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Did Bethesda tech-support recommend they re-install their operating system to resolve a known bug? You know, like CD Projekt did for The Witcher?

No, Bethesda did shit and chose to release stupid DLCs instead of patching the game and when they did patch it they broke it even more.

I guess CDP is worse... or the worst if you're going by skyway's retarded thinking.

 

[Major_Boobage]

SC+BW costs 5 euro
D+LOD 6 euro

What do you mean?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Copy-pasting Witcher fanboi quotes back at them since Nov 08

Mostly playable. That's a good one.

Observe how The Witcher fanboy ignores the exact same comment when it's made about his own adored game but jumps on it when it's used to describe another game.

That's pretty much this thread summed up right there.

Did Bethesda tech-support recommend they re-install their operating system to resolve a known bug? You know, like CD Projekt did for The Witcher?

let me quote that for you:

I tried registering the game multiple times but it didn't work due to some browser error with cookies. I asked for advice on forums but nothing they said worked, then I e-mailed the tech support and they said that it's a known error and that if nothing worked then the only way to fix it is to reinstall windows.

which translates to: ATARI said i should reinstall Windows, as in not CDP, as CDP does not handle registration issues besides what is mentioned in the FAQ, and does not reply by email ( or if you have proof of that do show us )

Which translates to: I'm a CD Projekt fan-boy and they can do no wrong! Anything wrong with The Witcher is not the responsibility of the people who made the game but of those who provide technical support. The game is perfect and I will believe no-one who says otherwise. I had no problems with the game therefore all these people that did are also liars. CD Projekt are awesome!

Is this like the translation issue again where CD Projekt basically had to admit it was their fault? "Re-install windows" was the standard answer given on The Witcher's own forums for a bug believed to stem from the TAGES copy-protection.

No, Bethesda did shit and chose to release stupid DLCs

If you don't like them you don't have to buy them!

 

[DefJam101]

DarkUnderlord : The Witcher : : Helton : baby arm

 

[RainSong]

where is hype?

 

[RainSong]

There Is No Hype

 

[RainSong]

hype (n.)

"excessive or misleading publicity or advertising," 1967, Amer.Eng. (the verb is attested from 1937), probably in part a back-formation of hyperbole, but also from underworld slang sense "swindle by overcharging or short-changing" (1926), a back-formation of hyper "short-change con man" (1914), from prefix hyper- meaning "over, to excess." Also possibly influenced by drug addicts' slang hype, 1913 shortening of hypodermic needle. In early 18c., hyp "morbid depression of the spirits" was colloquial for hypochondria (usually as the hyp or the hyps).

information (n.)

1. knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news.
2. knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.;
3. the act or fact of informing.

 

[BlitzKitchen]

Is it true that CDP is in financial trouble?

Going by their astronomical sales figures I'd be surprised.

 

[RainSong]

Where did u get that hype from?

 

[BlitzKitchen]

Where did u get that hype from?

The witcher sells a million copies worldwide
1M Sold: The Witcher's Secret to PC Success
Great sales results of The Witcher in Russia!

Unless you mean the comment about them being in financial trouble?

CDP, as we know, is in a financial shithole of sorts and is trying to rejuvenate the public interest in TW. Can't blame them for that.

?

 

[RainSong]

Of course I ment information... sry, 'hype' about their bad financial situation (damn sometimes its hard to remember all the language differences on this forum, hype means hiden information, trolling means administrating forum and so on)

 

[FeelTheRads]

SC+BW costs 5 euro
D+LOD 6 euro

What do you mean?

I'm not talking about the warez stand in Pakistan or wherever the hell you spawn from.

The Diablo 2 bundle is 25 Euros and each of them is 15 Euros on Blizzard store.
In stores here, the bundle is about 25 USD.

OK, not the price of an AAA game, but not bargain bin either.
Anyway the point was that, unless you're skyway and think that all games should be free because most likely he still lives on his parents money and doesn't know how the real world works, it is stupid to criticize a company for trying to keep their game out of the bargain bin. It's their product they can make money out of it as long as they want.

 

[Licaon_Kter]

Re: Copy-pasting Witcher fanboi quotes back at them since No

Which translates to: I'm a CD Projekt fan-boy and they can do no wrong! Anything wrong with The Witcher is not the responsibility of the people who made the game but of those who provide technical support. The game is perfect and I will believe no-one who says otherwise. I had no problems with the game therefore all these people that did are also liars. CD Projekt are awesome!

look closer i'm the tech guy there, but not a fanboy, and do believe me that i've tried all to get them to fix the damn bugs, yet ATARI and TAGES are beyond my voluntary reach
oh, and do quote me where i did say that if it does not work for them they are liars, and where i said the game is
perfect, or where i said CDP is awesome

Is this like the translation issue again where CD Projekt basically had to admit it was their fault? "Re-install windows" was the standard answer given on The Witcher's own forums for a bug believed to stem from the TAGES copy-protection.

yep, TAGES is a nightmare for some systems
but jasontiller's problem was related to some services that he stopped, cause if the system does not treat the Admin account as Admin, that's beyond my reach of tech support for the game, and the magical TAGES is too
and i did recommend a Windows install for many users as a freaking last resort, do remember that ATARI as the publisher made the commitment to support the game for the buyers, like it's written in the EULA or something, the *unofficial* tech support forum is a bonus, and better than to wait for that, 1 week after, standard mail response from ATARI

BTW, DU, skyway did we talk at the TW forums regarding your game problems?

 

[FeelTheRads]

Re: Copy-pasting Witcher fanboi quotes back at them since No

If you don't like them you don't have to buy them!

I don't get the reference, so I'll just assume you're steering away from the failure of comparing positively Bethesda to CDP.

 

[someone else]

Of course I ment information... sry, 'hype' about their bad financial situation (damn sometimes its hard to remember all the language differences on this forum, hype means hiden information, trolling means administrating forum and so on)

Sig worthy.

 

[Major_Boobage]

FeelTheRads

http://www.g2play.net/store

Digital Download 6 euro D2+Lod SC+BW

I bought SC there and it works no problem.

 

[Monocause]

Where did u get that hype from?

The witcher sells a million copies worldwide
1M Sold: The Witcher's Secret to PC Success
Great sales results of The Witcher in Russia!

Unless you mean the comment about them being in financial trouble?

CDP, as we know, is in a financial shithole of sorts and is trying to rejuvenate the public interest in TW. Can't blame them for that.

?

You must've missed the moment when they cancelled the TW console port.

http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=32119

Look around, I believe Brother None wrote a more detailed account of what happened in some other thread.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Re: Copy-pasting Witcher fanboi quotes back at them since No

If you don't like them you don't have to buy them!

I don't get the reference, so I'll just assume you're steering away from the failure of comparing positively Bethesda to CDP.

That's the point isn't it? If Bethesda were announcing fan-made content as part of a patch, we'd chew them out for it. I'll say that again: This is already free fan-made content, in a "patch" and we're supposed to praise CD Projekt for a) releasing this already free fan-made content for free; b) adding it in a patch as opposed to say, just having it on their website to download them optionally (like everyone else does). If re-installing the mother-fucking operating system was suggested as a solution to a problem with the game, we'd chew Bethesda out for it. If Bethesda touted a patch for Fallout 3 as "the best just got better", we'd tear them a new asshole. Yet CD Projekt do all of the above and we get such fanboi classics as:

• Just how many invest this much into patches?
• They're still patching the game, unlike some developers
• You don't want it? Don't download it.
• "constant memory leaks and CTDs"? Now you're just pulling shit out of your ass.
• Patched game : checked; free : checked; free added content : checked; What's wrong with that !!!!

which translates to: ATARI said i should reinstall Windows, as in not CDP

look closer i'm the tech guy there [...] I did recommend a Windows install ...

So are you ATARI are you?

I did recommend a Windows install for many users as a freaking last resort

Exactly.

and do believe me that i've tried all to get them to fix the damn bugs

So how come every other thread gets filled with fanboi's denying any and all problems that exist with The Witcher? "Now you're just pulling shit out of your ass." That's what was said to Skyway. So is he pulling shit out of his ass or are there several "damn bugs", some of them so severe that "reinstalling windows" is the last exasperated attempt to solve them?

Have Bethesda made anyone re-install windows for anything? And then been praised for their "bug-free", "mostly playable out of the box" game with hyped patches that "make the best better" and that you "don't have to install if you don't want to!"?

BTW, DU, skyway did we talk at the TW forums regarding your game problems?

I had the game-breaking crash at a certain point in the game (can't remember but it was a particular point where the game just wouldn't get passed and constantly CTD'd) that I checked the forums for. Turns out a few other people had it and there was no solution other than reload an older save, replay a bunch of the game and hope that worked. That game-breaking crash was with the EE patch installed too by the way.

I had the game crash every hour like clockwork (ref image posted earlier) on 32-bit Vista. Geralt's hair also went black fairly regularly and the map stopped working. The game takes longer than 2 full minutes to display the list of saved games (which is a serious problem given how often it was crashing). And there are a few noticeable quest bugs in Act IV (particularly, the game didn't understand I'd tried to appease both sides of the conflict and ended up with me having to take an alternate solution to get an ending).

I'm pretty sure they're all in the category of "Yeah, that's bugged and it needs to be patched by the developer". And what, I'm supposed to blame Atari for making CD Projekt code all these bugs into their game?

 

[Ausir]

That's the point isn't it? If Bethesda were announcing fan-made content as part of a patch, we'd chew them out for it. I'll say that again: This is already free fan-made content, in a "patch" and we're supposed to praise CD Projekt for a) releasing this already free fan-made content for free; b) adding it in a patch as opposed to say, just having it on their website to download them optionally (like everyone else does).

As far as I know, these modules are already freely downloadable, and won't be part of a patch. They will simply be included in the new disc-release of the game as a nod to the modders who made them.

 

[RainSong]

Re: Copy-pasting Witcher fanboi quotes back at them since No

That's the point isn't it? If Bethesda were announcing fan-made content as part of a patch, we'd chew them out for it. (...ble ble ble some bullcrap...)

Oh so now they are announcing and not hyping their new path? Well I think there is nothing wrong in informing people about new path.

Yet CD Projekt do all of the above and we get such fanboi classics as:

ye few poor fanboys fell for your week attempts at trolling, you can be proud of yourself. Not. You're still a week troll. It seems that the only trick in your sleave is the most basic one for everyone who wants to troll: 'picking a battlefield'.

I'll give you the second most basic rulle for trolls - learn when to quit. Since everybody now knows what u did thar, nobody will fall for your 'hype battlefield' anymore and you can only make a fool out of yourself from this point.