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Amarth X
Arch Angels Assault Force
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.06.03 17:33:00 -
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CCP
I visit these forums approximately twice per year. Each time when there is a new "expansion" released. Each time because the auto updater/launcher is broken beyond belief and I have to manually patch or repair the game to get it working after the launcher ****** it up. Here's the harsh reality:
- The launcher breaks at each and every expansion release. Or rather, it was always broken but never fixed.
- Not a single one of your customers wants the launcher. It adds nothing to the game and it is buggy as hell.
- You shouldn't need to be a god damn COMPUTER ENGINEER to install a patch. There's a standing joke about every player in the game being a programmer, but maybe that's not because of the nature of the game, but rather because they are the only kind of people who can actually get the crap working.
- Every single "expansion" ever released by CCP has been extremely buggy, to the point where 10 minutes of casual beta testing would have revealed numerous amounts of bugs.
- As I wrote this forum post, the forums crashed & burned so I had to rewrite it all again.
Sheer incompetence if I ever saw it. |
Amarth X
Arch Angels Assault Force
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.06.03 20:19:00 -
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Ved Riru wrote:And since not so many people are complaining about the launcher I believe CCP is doing something right
That's because most people have given up on the launcher long time ago and launch the game from the .exe in the bin folder. I only use it as a last resort for updating the game.
Ved Riru wrote:At least the launcher was working as intended on the current expansion's launch.
The launcher is not working as intended on the current expansion! Read the forums and see how many that have problems with it. If it was working, I wouldn't be on these forums searching for a manual solution, but playing the game I am paying for. I have now spent 4 hours trying to get the game to repair itself through the launcher and repair tool. They are both completely and utterly useless for this purpose, so I am now installing the game from scratch.
Ved Riru wrote:And about incompetence. I think it has more to do with priorities, being a small company and focus on other endeavors than incompetence. The launcher is definitely not as shiny and smooth and awesome as Blizzard's Battle.Net app that can launch multiple games, remembers your passwords, preloads big patches and now has out-of-the-game chat but still CCP launcher is very usable.
CCP's main focus seems to be meddling with things that were working just fine and fixing problems where there are no problem to fix. While ignoring as many of the existing bugs as possible.
Just look at the player/corp/alliance standings that CCP broke in the last "expansion" and still haven't fixed. Each time you log in at a nullsec station, it looks to be hellcamped by numerous neuts... because the standings are broken and blues appear as neuts. This can't be a hard bug to find or fix, but CCP obviously don't give a damn.
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Amarth X
Arch Angels Assault Force
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.06.05 15:13:00 -
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That site is filled to the brim with malware.
Now imagine if EVE had a working auto-patching system, so we didn't need to visit obscure Chinese hack kid sites... |
Amarth X
Arch Angels Assault Force
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.06.05 17:53:00 -
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It seems Kronos broke the game so bad you have to install the game from scratch anyhow. Neither launcher, repair tool or manual download helps. This seems to be caused by EVE bugs, as the same problem remains after a complete EVE wipe and re-install.
In the end, there's a limit of how much time I will spend on this bullshit patching. I love EVE, but if I need to spend 5 hours per day fixing EVE's problems, I will quit paying for this game very soon.
Since CCP management is actively trying to make the company go bankrupt, it is only a matter of time before EVE is gone anyhow. |
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