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Now that we are talking patch quality......
I'm also a great fan of Blizzard games (Warcraft, Starcraft) and they are
excellent at patching their games.
Long after the release of a game, they still make patches that balances the
game a bit better and introduces new features.
And their patches are always excellent quality.
/Kim
"Jeffery S. Jones" <jeffsj@execpc.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:12:38 GMT, "The Stare"
> <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
> >news:40f25b96$0$298$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> >> Thanks, I'll try version 1.22 instead.
> >> I must say that I'm a bit disappointed with the quality of their
patches.
> >> They don't seem to test them very thoroughly, since they miss very
obvious
> >> bugs.
>
> Patches don't make money, so most companies can't afford to do a
> large testing cycle on them. If they work for the programmer's team,
> they likely will work in the field.
>
> This is by far not the only program to have patches released which
> just didn't work right. 1.22 came out almost instantly once 1.20
> proved not to work correctly.
>
>
>
> I don't love the incompatible savegame deal though. I understand
> how it can happen -- significant fixes change the actual underlying
> data -- but it still is confusing. I tried to load up an old game I
> wanted to finish after I put the patches on -- forgetting that I'd
> planned to finish it first, then patch.
>
> No go. Oh, it loaded without crashing, but there were a lot of
> glitches. I decided to just reinstall sans patches, finish it, then
> patch.
>
> 1.22 seems pretty decent. A lot of fixes in -- I'd complain much
> more about the release state of the game vs. the patches themselves,
> which messed up a few places (even in 1.22) but mostly fixed things.
>
> >> "The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
> >> news:zyfIc.497$Yj.376@news01.roc.ny...
> >> >
> >> > "Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:40f18445$0$244$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> >> > > Playing Civ3 Conquest version 1.20 multiplayer....
> >> > > I can not successfully load a saved game.
> >> > > Whenever I load a savegame, the screen is just black. When I then
move
> >a
> >> > > unit, the map suddenly appears, but the game then freezes.
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyone else having this problem?
> >> >
> >> > Upgrade to 1.22
> >> > 1.20 was full of bugs
> >> > 1.20, 1.22 won't work w/ any games started with 1.15 or earlier
> >
> >1.22 might be the last we see of patches for C3C. They pulled the
programmer
> >to work on different projects. Since there won't be any more expansions
and
> >they already stole.... i mean... have our money, there's no reason to
> >support it further.
>
> Not after announcing the patch plan and not with the list of known
> fixable bugs. It may take time, but I bet they will eventually do it.
>
> It isn't up to version 1.31 (the final patch versions of MOO2 and
> MOM), both of which could have had more done after (Mac MOO2 did
> (sigh), but it never made it to the PC version).
>
> --
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