The 360 owners like me got stiffed bigtime by not getting a patch. As far as we know it went to MS for certification but got rejected for some reason. The publisher didnt want to pay for the neccesary fixes to the patch for it to pass and just gave up on it completely.
Its the reason that a lot of players on 360 simply gave up and stopped playing. There are a couple of issue with the title that a simple patch would have fixed as you PS3 guys know all to well.
Why the publisher simply gave up is still a mystery to me. I have not seen a game left unpatched in a long time. Its out of the norm these days, as supporting your product to a basic level is something that any serious publisher does these days or they wont get customers purchasing their other titles. Sure BoP might not have had stellar sales numbers but it didnt do to badly either when you factor in that the genre is not as mainstream as FPS games and the lack of advertising it had.
I only stumbled across it a few weeks before release when the demo went on LIVE. I never once seen an advert or poster for it in RL. If it had even a smidgen of press Im damn sure it would have hold a LOT more units. Especially in the EU and in the UK in particular, where the Battle of Britain is commemorated every year and has major events every 10 years.
Its a crying shame because I for one love the game, and think its one of the best titles of the year on any platform.
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