[SoapBoffin]

Put the novus savegame bug (Abnormal exit detected moments after loading a latter-half of the mission savegame) into known issues with a solution please. I believe the solution is "Don't load a savegame for this mission, just win it from the start with the autosave and save at the beginning of the next mission"

I'll be putting this method into practice after I've finished CoD4.

[Sharpe]

SoxmisUK, on Feb 11 2008, 06:38 PM, said:

couldnt resist.

Can tell by your atrocious spelling and crap syntax that your base language is NOT english for that I forgive you what may have been lost in translation.

If you had bothered to read my post before letting your mouth rattle off like an ouzi s.m.g. you would have seen that in no way was my mail aimed at You, or the likes of you, (Thats people who tried to help...) but it WAS aimed at the few hardcore posters in here who are defending PG's stance at keeping us out of the loop visavis patch release date and how they fixed it..

Further to your information, sonny I KNOW I'm far older than you... Hence can get crabby whenever the feck I like.

Oh yeah, and I DIDNT ask for help.

Now sit over there >> and have a cup of tea and a cigarette. CALM DOWN.

Would you losers at Petrowhatever quit screwing around on the message boards, cutting down unhappy customers, and maybe take a little credit for pulling off one of the biggest scams ever! I am inspired to make a Command and Conquer rip off myself. I will call it Galaxy at War, and it will have four, count them.. Four different factions. The entire budget for the game will be spent on marketing and the actual game disc will just be a cd that brings up an error that tells the custumer that their system is crap and not supported. Maybe there will be a link to a website for "support". The customers that shelled out their money would atleast be able to grieve together about their wasted money. But that would let the little customer have too much satisfaction. That is not allowed. Galaxy at War staff members will tease the ripped off customers with a soon to be released patch that will fix everything. Oh, the magical band-aid. Other staff will post unofficial messages cutting down the unhappy customers and pointing fingers at every business partner that did not make a bad product.

Ah "feck"???? What the Frack does that mean? I could go on more but I think the business model is to close to P____________.

"at the few hardcore posters in here who are defending PG's stance" errrrr Employees. It does not matter how old you are if you using emoticons to talk trash to unhappy customers. I can see all 5'8" of your 40 year old PG employed self "" I am PetroFIED. WOW. SCARY!

$60 game + 3 Hours of my time, a $60 value (at least)= $120

I will accept that.

Or maybe it is time for us unhappy customers to start "bonding".

[Sharpe]

Gray__Fox, on Feb 11 2008, 08:20 PM, said:

are you serious?





yup they sure didn't say anything or address it at all. These people must be monsters... Right now petroglyph has done their job and the rest is out of their hands They probably can't even give an ETA since they don't even know when the patch will be checked by SEGA & M$.

what loop? You know what they know. They fixed it, the patch is with SEGA, when they're done it goes to M$ to be verified again... How can they give a release date for something they don't have any control over?

ya and it shows with how they handled windows ME when they scrapped it and anyone who had it didn't get updates, patches, a refund or anything. Their customer support is superior... I agree you bought it and you want it to work... fine that's obviously a fair request. But, to continually claim Petroglyph arn't even trying or are just yanking your chain even though right now they don't even have the patch anymore and SEGA is the one you should be complaining to is just sad and shows you'd rather complain then be patient.

really so you read through the pages of code found it and told them how to fix it? man you are good. and how is political correctness going to help you prove a point?

of course you havn't they don't post in only this thread they've actually posted stuff in many different areas on the subject when they happen to see it asked.

Like I said if you really wanna get this going ask SEGA they are the ones who control the patch as far as I know at this moment.

BTW:

Would you losers at Petrowhatever quit screwing around on the message boards, cutting down unhappy customers, and maybe take a little credit for pulling off one of the biggest scams ever! I am inspired to make a Command and Conquer rip off myself. I will call it Galaxy at War, and it will have four, count them.. Four different factions. The entire budget for the game will be spent on marketing and the actual game disc will just be a cd that brings up an error that tells the custumer that their system is crap and not supported. Maybe there will be a link to a website for "support". The customers that shelled out their money would atleast be able to grieve together about their wasted money. But that would let the little customer have too much satisfaction. That is not allowed. Galaxy at War staff members will tease the ripped off customers with a soon to be released patch that will fix everything. Oh, the magical band-aid. Other staff will post unofficial messages cutting down the unhappy customers and pointing fingers at every business partner that did not make a bad product.

Ah "feck"???? What the Frack does that mean? I could go on more but I think the business model is to close to P____________.

"at the few hardcore posters in here who are defending PG's stance" errrrr Employees. It does not matter how old you are if you using emoticons to talk trash to unhappy customers. I can see all 5'8" of your 40 year old PG employed self "" I am PetroFIED. WOW. SCARY!

$60 game + 3 Hours of my time, a $60 value (at least)= $120

I will accept that.

Or maybe it is time for us unhappy customers to start "bonding".

The above part of this message was a reply to someone else but it pertains to you too Fox.

Fox, "a huge thanks... blah blah blah" is not an apology. Quit trying to defend your company and resolve this.
With all those clever out of context replies you must be super smart. Or maybe you were the one that came up with the idea to rip on people that have had their money stolen from them?

Top Notch Service!! The PetroGlyph way!!!

[rorirub]

Ignoring all the homosexual love from the last few pages, I'd like to have even some hotfix to kill the Abnormal Game Exit bug. You can't believe how frustrating it is to wait for so long for this game and then being unable to play it.

[Richggs]

@Sharpe
Your not helping your situation, infact now you've made a name for yourself - as an idiot.

[NightmareCV]

for some reason, i dont believe this would ever happen with a blizzard game. i didnt think UAW was a bad game the ONE time i played it, but now i know that it really isnt. i know the 1up quote said this is supposed to keep us busy till StarCraft II, but it really isnt doing its job. i think id rather wait for SCII than play this game at this point. good thing the first StarCraft is up and running, hmmmm, thats been goin for 10 years now hasent it? they go 10 years and UAW cant stay working for a few months. the only cool part about this game was the trailer, after that it has nothing....great job petro, ill never buy another one of your games.

[Radicalrex]

Yeah, I believe UAW is a fantastic game for the first 10 minutes I got to play of it. It's the only reason I'm getting the 360 version if I can sell this one to my friend. By the way, when does the 360 version come out? I know it's near the end of this month.

[Spacemonkey]

Well, even if this patch ever does arrive - doesnt this line scare anyone else ?

"the upcoming patch will solve most of the problems folks "

MOST?

I think the PG staff/ Sega, whoever the hell wants to take responsibilty for this should provide people with a way they can get a refund for this. Trading standards anyone?

[NightmareCV]

i just think this whole thing is a mess and im just about done with Petro and UAW. why should i waste my time with this game while there are so many other RTS games out there, a lot of which are better than UAW. i just think the next time petro releases a game, they should make sure it works before they hype it up. i just wish i could get the money back that i wasted on this game. $50 to play it one time...real good value...again, way to go petro on making a failure of a game, ill never buy another game that has anything to do with petro

p.s. i really do want my money back petro...

[Noah es Frio]

Hey everyone I'm not completely sure of this but:
Isn't true that Petro has only released 2 games plus an expansion pack so far?

For all the ppl that said stuff about never buying a game from them again, u won't have a very hard time!

[Souleater]

I'm not sure. I do know that the space battles in Empire At War still top my favorite multiplayer games list.

Now, if only they could license Macross or Robotech....

[Mr.Somebody]

I am getting this error whenever I try to play 3v3, right from the begining, game will freeze, and BAM, this error!

[Strategist]

Patch update:

Ishmael-PG, on Feb 22 2008, 10:39 PM, said:

The 360 ver isn't delaying the patch. According to SEGA, the patch is at MS, we're waiting to hear if it's approved or not.

My information is 2nd hand today, but that's where it stands.

Delphi-PG, on Feb 23 2008, 10:40 AM, said:

To help you better understand the Patch situation.

The patch has been done since mid January, the long and arduous approval process is what has hindered the ability for us to get it online. I would love to say the patch is in the final few days of testing at Microsoft, which it is, but what if it got kicked out? We are sorry this process is long and painful, but there is no way around it. We have remained mum on the matter because it is not proactive to get your hopes up weekly and smash them down with a sledge hammer.

On Monday we'll have driph post up the full patch notes, which should help give you guys a better idea of what to expect. If Microsoft gives the ok, which could be any day now, we'll let you guys know the second it happens.

This post has been edited by The Stratigest: 23 February 2008 - 01:54 PM

[GeverzkXoselKeaeOrraisVelp]

The Stratigest, on Feb 23 2008, 01:56 AM, said:

Patch update:

Interesting... I do hope it's only a few days, if not a little under a week. Even though I just bought this yesterday and have not been waiting as long, I am the impatient type.


And as for Petroglyph... I've bought plenty of their products, first time I've ever seen a problem like this. And the fault actually lies with Microsoft, since they are the last ones to have their hands on it. Why didn't they double check it? Of course there will be lazy people here and there who don't do everything they should, just don't blame the company or group as a whole.

And as for those who have kept us UTD, thank you very much so! I am glad to know I don't have to wait LONG after paying a good $54.11 in cash. ^^;; And as for a side note... I can't wait until Halo Wars is out.

[Gray__Fox]

SHAZcat07, on Feb 13 2008, 06:04 PM, said:

There should be some kind of award handed to these fellows by Wired.com for, 'Longest postponed Patch' or something like that.

I waited since september 4th 2007 till last week for a patch for the SIMS2 that didnt' even fix anything that was game breaking crashes...
Command and Conquer the First Decade was supposed to have patch 2 for the insane amount of crashes which was never released even after promises of it... and you are saying petroglyph has horrid support. It's almost the worst logic I've ever seen.

Spacemonkey, on Feb 18 2008, 09:53 AM, said:

Well, even if this patch ever does arrive - doesnt this line scare anyone else ?

"the upcoming patch will solve most of the problems folks "

MOST?

I think the PG staff/ Sega, whoever the hell wants to take responsibilty for this should provide people with a way they can get a refund for this. Trading standards anyone?

Are you perfect? Is anything perfect? No...

Quote

for some reason, i dont believe this would ever happen with a blizzard game.

guess you never bought diablo II or seen tehir tech support forums... tehy have just as many problems. They had just as many problems with game releases as Petro is... and those were even easier to program...
Blizzard isn't perfect either.. ever been to the World of Warcrat forum? You'd see that they are far from perfect... but people are patient and they reap the reward. Now I am just reading fanboyism...
lashing out just makes you look like someone who doesn't realize bad things happen nothing is perfect and you can't always have everything work on the first try.

[Bob123456]

Gray__Fox, on Feb 24 2008, 06:08 PM, said:

guess you never bought diablo II or seen tehir tech support forums... tehy have just as many problems. They had just as many problems with game releases as Petro is... and those were even easier to program...
Blizzard isn't perfect either.. ever been to the World of Warcrat forum? You'd see that they are far from perfect... but people are patient and they reap the reward. Now I am just reading fanboyism...

I can't see why you have to diss blizzard. Can't you just accept that it's the best game house and everything it does is perfect.

[Spacemonkey]

Gray__Fox, on Feb 24 2008, 10:08 PM, said:

I waited since september 4th 2007 till last week for a patch for the SIMS2 that didnt' even fix anything that was game breaking crashes...
Command and Conquer the First Decade was supposed to have patch 2 for the insane amount of crashes which was never released even after promises of it... and you are saying petroglyph has horrid support. It's almost the worst logic I've ever seen.

Are you perfect? Is anything perfect? No...

guess you never bought diablo II or seen tehir tech support forums... tehy have just as many problems. They had just as many problems with game releases as Petro is... and those were even easier to program...
Blizzard isn't perfect either.. ever been to the World of Warcrat forum? You'd see that they are far from perfect... but people are patient and they reap the reward. Now I am just reading fanboyism...
lashing out just makes you look like someone who doesn't realize bad things happen nothing is perfect and you can't always have everything work on the first try.

I never said I was perfect. That is an irrelevent argument - as a progammer I know there is no such thing as perfect code. BUT there is a difference between a bug and a fatal flaw in the software that prevents it from running AT ALL. and not just for a couple of users, but for a large number. Just read this thread.

I never expect to pay for perfect software. my favorite games sometimes crash, or have funny blips which dont bother me. This is different.

"Cant have everything work on the first try" ? this isnt a programming workshop! This is a big release, with a large media campaign behind it. I do expect software that is realsed to be pretty solid. That is why you have a alpha/beta/gold process.

People have a right to be annoyed. There is nothing I can do about it, but wait until something is done, as no one seems to want to provide a refund.

[GeverzkXoselKeaeOrraisVelp]

Hey, Blizzard does have a few bad points, but most of the stuff they make are great... And I'm glad they've finally gotten on to Starcraft 2! Mwuhahaha. ^^ Which was personally their best decision.

The Starcraft Ghost thing, by the way, never got finished. It died due to lack of staff.

[Strategist]

Patch notes: Link

This post has been edited by The Stratigest: 25 February 2008 - 09:00 PM

[GeverzkXoselKeaeOrraisVelp]

The Stratigest, on Feb 25 2008, 09:58 PM, said:

Patch notes: Link

If anything, we'll wait for a link to the patch itself. >.>