The Crystal Ball 2

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Falstaff

Bongodriver said:

>>much of the whinging is basically wild speculation or lies<<

Not really, no.

But it allows you to parody it and go riding bareback into the desert called 'Defending the citadel of Clod' (bit of a mouthful for a desert name I think you'll agree) if you portray it this way.

And it deflects from the actual issues at hand, which is what much of this is about.

The more fanciful paranoias and flights of fancy are treated with fairly equal contempt by both sides, I would say. So no need to worry about them too much.

As for the 'he's calling the devs liars, he is! he is! teacher!' - well that's just low-life trying to get people bogged down and banned. And pathetic for all that.

But then this is what happens - you get into nonsense about arguing about the arguments - which this 'defend at all costs' segment of the fans tend to do. Best not to be fooled by this.

But the game itself, and its faults, have a nasty habit of drowning out the crap and meta-arguments, after a while, and bringing things back to the real issues i.e. how much is broken or not working properly, or not present.

In this respect not much has changed one year after release. Read into that what you will.

Ben

Can anybody here claim to have never seen a ctd in their life before COD? since I have had a PC I have had CTD's blue screens, HD's, GFX cards, RAM, fans, power packs all porked, yet for some reason people are trying to convince us that the COD devs are the inventors of the 'memory leak' and CTD and all known problems with their technology, neither is COD the first game I ever bought in a bad state on release, yet again people are trying to have us believe this didn't happen before COD, the COD devs are not the first I have experienced to be reticent on progress updates, just about every Half life game has been released by surprise and had bugs to boot, but for some reason people are trying to convince us the COD devs are in cahoots with Satan.

Blue screens? have you been on some naughty websites waiting for the clod patch?

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Bob_Marley

Blue screens? have you been on some naughty websites waiting for the clod patch?

You don't know what a blue screen is?

Bongodriver said:

>>Can anybody here claim to have never seen a ctd in their life before COD? <<

Rhetorical, I assume.

...but as many times as Clod...?

>>since I have had a PC I have had CTD's blue screens, HD's, GFX cards, RAM, fans, power packs all porked, yet for some reason people are trying to convince us that the COD devs are the inventors of the 'memory leak' and CTD and all known problems with their technology, neither is COD the first game I ever bought in a bad state on release,<<

Who is this mysterious sect?

And how many games ahve you bought that were as bad as Clod on release? Honestly....? And not just bad o rbarely a barely functioning alpha, but with as many missing features...?

Ver, very few, I would bet.

>> yet again people are trying to have us believe this didn't happen before COD, the COD devs are not the first I have experienced to be reticent on progress updates,<<

Where is this mysterious sect that said this? Hardly anyone by any chance....? More straw targets. When you can;t stick to the facts, invent ghost opposition, is that it?

>>just about every Half life game has been released by surprise and had bugs to boot, but for some reason people are trying to convince us the COD devs are in cahoots with Satan. <<

Ah, those mysterious 'people' again.

I dont much like bubonic plague either (those damned bubos...) but it's ot got much to do with this. Nor has your post.

It's a question of degree, as you well know.

Stop trying to imply that this was just 'slightly troubled' release, with a few problems commonly seen elsewhere. It isn't and it wasn't. It was breath-takingly bad.

Ben

Originally Posted by Falstaff

Bongodriver said:

>>Can anybody here claim to have never seen a ctd in their life before COD? <<

Rhetorical, I assume.

...but as many times as Clod...?

>>since I have had a PC I have had CTD's blue screens, HD's, GFX cards, RAM, fans, power packs all porked, yet for some reason people are trying to convince us that the COD devs are the inventors of the 'memory leak' and CTD and all known problems with their technology, neither is COD the first game I ever bought in a bad state on release,<<

Who is this mysterious sect?

And how many games ahve you bought that were as bad as Clod on release? Honestly....? And not just bad o rbarely a barely functioning alpha, but with as many missing features...?

Ver, very few, I would bet.

>> yet again people are trying to have us believe this didn't happen before COD, the COD devs are not the first I have experienced to be reticent on progress updates,<<

Where is this mysterious sect that said this? Hardly anyone by any chance....? More straw targets. When you can;t stick to the facts, invent ghost opposition, is that it?

>>just about every Half life game has been released by surprise and had bugs to boot, but for some reason people are trying to convince us the COD devs are in cahoots with Satan. <<

Ah, those mysterious 'people' again.

I dont much like bubonic plague either (those damned bubos...) but it's ot got much to do with this. Nor has your post.

It's a question of degree, as you well know.

Stop trying to imply that this was just 'slightly troubled' release, with a few problems commonly seen elsewhere. It isn't and it wasn't. It was breath-takingly bad.

Ben

It wasnt that good ben.

hey, what can I say, I'm trying to be as fair as possible given the derangement on offer

Ben

[flyingblind]

The problem is that more than a few people who visit this forum are quite simply addicts. And because they cannot get the fix or the high they so desperately crave then they exhibit all manner of strange and disturbing behaviors.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Falstaff

hey, what can I say, I'm trying to be as fair as possible given the derangement on offer

Ben

At least I won't stoop to the lower levels of accusing everyone of being 'derranged' if they don't see it my way.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Bob_Marley

It wasnt that good ben.

Ah yes, a classic example of Bens 'sect' at work, slowly but surely they all start crowding round when they feel like they have someone trapped.
having run out of intelligent debate the slowly creeping attacks on credibility/sanity/intelligence are thrown in....any minute now I'm expecting the 'you can't educate pork' line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8...eature=related