So what happened to the Patch ?

[pcfan123]

patch works great, tests are real now! bowler speeds fixed! thanks guys

 

[Dutch]

am not saying they wont release a patch or anything...
just that they didnt plan it properly or may be werent looking
forward to so many bugs ?

I think you have given an excellent overview of what could have/should have been. Codies and Transmission would have gained a lot of credit if they had been able to follow a patch pattern as you had described. My sense is that Transmission wnat to do soemthing but is powerless to do something until Codemasters deem it acceptable and worthwhile doing (from a buisness point of view). It's not just programmers who make games of course and they are bound by the directives given to them by publishers and producers. Codemasters could still make a lot of bad turn good if they were at least to give some information about what and when they feel could and should be fixed. Lets face it; whoever works in the PR department has got his head firmly stuck in a bucket of chip fat and has made the PR of Public Relations into Perfect Ruins.

dutchad added 3 Minutes and 57 Seconds later...

NO OFFENCE IN ANY WAY BRO

please stop saying " we are looking / reading into forum " SH~t "

and what LEGAL boundary ?

arent we who payed for the game have the right to get a patch ? and they should have released a patch by now ....

Please dont take it in any other way dutchad , i and many others are fed up with those codemaster guy who pretended to have worked out the best game and yet they released crappiest cricket game. what happened to all those " READING " the forum stuff gone ?


if i were a developer , i would have given least importance to timming the release of the game . I would have worked out all the bugs , invited few trusted members from this forum , guys who have played hours and hours of BLC 07 , EA cricket etc and would have got thier feedback and worked closely with them and at last would have given them a free copy of the game.


this is what many software giants are doing.

One more week , if there is no Patch release , i am going to sell my game on Ebay

No offence taken my friend as I feel neither responsible for or able to do anything about Transmission's and Codemaster's predicaments. I am only giving my opinion, as you are giving yours, which does not differ much from yours except that my willingness to wait a little longer in the hope that something will happen is of a more durable variety. That is possibily naive of me, but that is who I am!

 

[naveen_reloaded]

No offence taken my friend as I feel neither responsible for or able to do anything about Transmission's and Codemaster's predicaments. I am only giving my opinion, as you are giving yours, which does not differ much from yours except that my willingness to wait a little longer in the hope that something will happen is of a more durable variety. That is possibily naive of me, but that is who I am!

that was very generous of you my friend !

:friends

 

[jkartik]

I think you have given an excellent overview of what could have/should have been. Codies and Transmission would have gained a lot of credit if they had been able to follow a patch pattern as you had described. My sense is that Transmission wnat to do soemthing but is powerless to do something until Codemasters deem it acceptable and worthwhile doing (from a buisness point of view). It's not just programmers who make games of course and they are bound by the directives given to them by publishers and producers. Codemasters could still make a lot of bad turn good if they were at least to give some information about what and when they feel could and should be fixed. Lets face it; whoever works in the PR department has got his head firmly stuck in a bucket of chip fat and has made the PR of Public Relations into Perfect Ruins.

i dont get it though. your right that transmission might be powerless but why on earth would codies want to delay / avoid a patch ??

 

[KBC]

Maybe add a few bonus glitches to it?

 

[pcfan123]

if they patch something, they are admitting there is something wrong with it. Right now the game is a success, it sold a lot of copies and was on the top of the charts for the first 2 weeks in the UK. As far as Codies is concerned, there is nothing wrong with the game

 

[Dutch]

i dont get it though. your right that transmission might be powerless but why on earth would codies want to delay / avoid a patch ??

Codemasters has had a history of not wanting to admit that it's products are not perfect. As far as they are concerned this game is finished, done, dusted and selling very well thank you very much. I know little about gaming programming but do know quite a lot about programming cycles and devlopment procedures. A patch is always a costly affair and diverts "precious" rescources elsewhere. Of course from a PR point of view Codies should want to appease people. History and numbers however tells them that we keep buying the stuff, however much we are dissatisfied about the previous version. These forums are a testament to that. I am not knocking people here for doing that; that is what forums are for. Plus we are not the only ones buying these games. There are many more people who are not members of these forums buying these games and quite frankly, loving them, thinking they are absolutely brilliant and great!

 

[jkartik]

Codemasters has had a history of not wanting to admit that it's products are not perfect. As far as they are concerned this game is finished, done, dusted and selling very well thank you very much. I know little about gaming programming but do know quite a lot about programming cycles and devlopment procedures. A patch is always a costly affair and diverts "precious" rescources elsewhere. Of course from a PR point of view Codies should want to appease people. History and numbers however tells them that we keep buying the stuff, however much we are dissatisfied about the previous version. These forums are a testament to that. I am not knocking people here for doing that; that is what forums are for. Plus we are not the only ones buying these games. There are many more people who are not members of these forums buying these games and quite frankly, loving them, thinking they are absolutely brilliant and great!

yeah, we are only a handful of members wanting a typical test match simulation. we dont even make 10% of the entire cricket gaming community.

IMO, the main argument between codies and transmission would be the consoles. may be they dont want PS3 /360 users to feel dejected ?

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Codemasters has had a history of not wanting to admit that it's products are not perfect. As far as they are concerned this game is finished, done, dusted and selling very well thank you very much. I know little about gaming programming but do know quite a lot about programming cycles and devlopment procedures. A patch is always a costly affair and diverts "precious" rescources elsewhere. Of course from a PR point of view Codies should want to appease people. History and numbers however tells them that we keep buying the stuff, however much we are dissatisfied about the previous version. These forums are a testament to that. I am not knocking people here for doing that; that is what forums are for. Plus we are not the only ones buying these games. There are many more people who are not members of these forums buying these games and quite frankly, loving them, thinking they are absolutely brilliant and great!

if that is the case , then i will totally ignore games from CODEMASTER and pirate it and show them what thier games really mean to me , just a crap.
their attitude is very much wrong. Look at other game developers. Take for example VALVE , Rockstar ,Kojima , Naughty Dog , Crytek Frankfurt etc, they dediacate everything for game. When you in a industry which needs constant feedback and new attitude , CM`s attitude simply means they can get away with anything they throw at us and we consumers will buy thinking they had answered few questions in this forum , and we think that they will stick to thier words.

 

[diaskasun]

Yo guys, you may not know this but I can see what’s about to happened in future… !!! cool ha!! oups I am getting a vision now “ james first thing I want to ask you is, what do you think about you last title ashes 09 and its success, do you think this new upcoming dust 2011 will be as successful as the previous one?” “ well yes it was financially very successful but there were lots of things we missed with ashes 09, and it made us determined in developing the ultimate cricket game ever. We dust 2011 is the ultimate cricket game ever and as we have tested it in every possible way and the results are incredible. Not only we have rain in the game anymore we even have earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. testing of the game was done by professionals like English batting star David backem, tiger woods, salman khan, and they all had to say only one thing about the game! That it’s the ultimate cricket game ever. And I know the next question from you will be about patching the game. And my answer is simple “ you don’t need to patch something so bugless as this one!! Trust me” red cards, yellow cards, penalty shootouts… you name is, dust 2011 is the best and its real cricket !!

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Yo guys, you may not know this but I can see what?s about to happened in future? !!! cool ha!! oups I am getting a vision now ? james first thing I want to ask you is, what do you think about you last title ashes 09 and its success, do you think this new upcoming dust 2011 will be as successful as the previous one?? ? well yes it was financially very successful but there were lots of things we missed with ashes 09, and it made us determined in developing the ultimate cricket game ever. We dust 2011 is the ultimate cricket game ever and as we have tested it in every possible way and the results are incredible. Not only we have rain in the game anymore we even have earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. testing of the game was done by professionals like English batting star David backem, tiger woods, salman khan, and they all had to say only one thing about the game! That it?s the ultimate cricket game ever. And I know the next question from you will be about patching the game. And my answer is simple ? you don?t need to patch something so bugless as this one!! Trust me? red cards, yellow cards, penalty shootouts? you name is, dust 2011 is the best and its real cricket !!

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[CaptainOZ]

Codemasters met their sales goals and they don't really give a rats ass about you or me.

 

[diaskasun]

Codemasters met their sales goals and they don't really give a rats ass about you or me.

I don?t think that?s very sensible on their part!! Well if they can make lot of money with a game like ashes, other competitors will also try to make money. And then, they will loss their monopoly in the market? by the way I really like that idea

 

[lazy_chesnut]

Codemasters met their sales goals and they don't really give a rats ass about you or me.

You have no evidence of this.

Who's to say they're not working on something at the moment? You have to remember that any patch will have to go from Transmission, through their testing, to Codies, through proper QA, and this will only be for an initial beta.

I await your angry reply about me being someone's mate or something.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

I don?t think that?s very sensible on their part!! Well if they can make lot of money with a game like ashes, other competitors will also try to make money. And then, they will loss their monopoly in the market? by the way I really like that idea

a good point there .

EA would have released 10 games in differennt names just like they did with NFS series...:doh:doh