Boaz
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Pack it up,
Pack it in,
Where do I begin,
If you buy DA:I... that's a sin.
So... I've played Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II (and the Mass Effect trilogy). And I sat down over the weekend to watch a friend start playing Dragon Age: Inquisition on his XBone.
He spent forty minutes tweaking his character to look like Kurt Russell's character, Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. And then he played for three and a half hours with me making all the correct observations while observing the gorgeously rendered CG world invaded by demons arriving through green fire.
"It exploded in a ball of green flame. Green flame!!!"
"With light coming out of his hand?!?!"
"First time you ever plug somebody?" "Course not."
"Look, I'm not saying I've been everywhere and done everything, but you've got to be some kind of fool to think we're all alone in this universe."
"I never hack'n slash faster than I can see and besides... it's all in the reflexes."
<chugging health potion> "What does this do exactly?" "Huge buzz!" "I'm not scared at all. I feel kind of invincible."
<after getting knocked down> "Son of a b!@#& must pay."
<being confronted over first weapon> "Trade ya!"
"Demon standoff. Don't make a sound."
The story starts with a demon invasion during a civil/religious war between the Templars and the Mages. Sounds like great fun... right? I watched him play two hours on Saturday and two more hours on Sunday.
Well, three and a half hours into the game, my friend became unable to switch between his character and his party members. After running around for a while, this became problematic. He needed to use his rogue to open doors and was unable to do so. So he saved and the real problem started.... When he tried to just continue, the screen told him the save file was corrupted.
His save file was corrupted immediately after saving?!?!
Luckily he had an auto save from just two minutes before. It was also corrupted and unable to load. As was the save from half an hour before... as was the save from an hour before... as were ALL the saves from Saturday. His character was gone... because he saved?!?!
So, he made a new character... and was unable to save after creation and the obvious tutorial.
He was also unable to delete all of the corrupted saves.
Hmmmmmm.....
So he uninstalled DA:I and reinstalled... we'll see what happens today.
Anyway.... after looking online to see if he ran into a glitch or if there is a solution... we learned that EVERYONE has this problem. The game is bugged. It was released in North America on Nov. 18 and the first reports of the save game bug were reported on the 19th! My friend did not buy the game until December. There has been one patch... which has not fixed the problem...
...and they're still selling the game! It's unplayable! It is unconscionable of Bioware and Microsoft and Best Buy to continue to actively market and sell a completely broken product.
Owned became ownd which begat pwnd which begat bwnd. XBone will bwn you.
The second patch is due today for all platforms except for XBone. But this patch will not affect the save game issue... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!
Oh, and patches three and four are in the works...
Microsoft has his money and all the suckers who preordered it... so what incentive do they have to make it right now? If this were an automobile, there would be a worldwide recall...
This is the first time I've had a negative experience with a serious glitch from Bioware. Sure, ME has a few spots where Shepard will walk into the ceiling... and then there is the abysmal ending of ME3, but that's it. Microsoft is Microsoft... what are you going to do?
But this is exactly the kind of behavior I expect from Best Buy. They have zero concept of standing behind their products. Once you've bought it, you're stuck. Even if the product is defective or obviously broken. I will never buy from them ever.... and that's a decision I made thirteen years ago. I wish my friend listened to me.
Pack it in,
Where do I begin,
If you buy DA:I... that's a sin.
So... I've played Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II (and the Mass Effect trilogy). And I sat down over the weekend to watch a friend start playing Dragon Age: Inquisition on his XBone.
He spent forty minutes tweaking his character to look like Kurt Russell's character, Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. And then he played for three and a half hours with me making all the correct observations while observing the gorgeously rendered CG world invaded by demons arriving through green fire.
"It exploded in a ball of green flame. Green flame!!!"
"With light coming out of his hand?!?!"
"First time you ever plug somebody?" "Course not."
"Look, I'm not saying I've been everywhere and done everything, but you've got to be some kind of fool to think we're all alone in this universe."
"I never hack'n slash faster than I can see and besides... it's all in the reflexes."
<chugging health potion> "What does this do exactly?" "Huge buzz!" "I'm not scared at all. I feel kind of invincible."
<after getting knocked down> "Son of a b!@#& must pay."
<being confronted over first weapon> "Trade ya!"
"Demon standoff. Don't make a sound."
The story starts with a demon invasion during a civil/religious war between the Templars and the Mages. Sounds like great fun... right? I watched him play two hours on Saturday and two more hours on Sunday.
Well, three and a half hours into the game, my friend became unable to switch between his character and his party members. After running around for a while, this became problematic. He needed to use his rogue to open doors and was unable to do so. So he saved and the real problem started.... When he tried to just continue, the screen told him the save file was corrupted.
His save file was corrupted immediately after saving?!?!
Luckily he had an auto save from just two minutes before. It was also corrupted and unable to load. As was the save from half an hour before... as was the save from an hour before... as were ALL the saves from Saturday. His character was gone... because he saved?!?!
So, he made a new character... and was unable to save after creation and the obvious tutorial.
He was also unable to delete all of the corrupted saves.
Hmmmmmm.....
So he uninstalled DA:I and reinstalled... we'll see what happens today.
Anyway.... after looking online to see if he ran into a glitch or if there is a solution... we learned that EVERYONE has this problem. The game is bugged. It was released in North America on Nov. 18 and the first reports of the save game bug were reported on the 19th! My friend did not buy the game until December. There has been one patch... which has not fixed the problem...
...and they're still selling the game! It's unplayable! It is unconscionable of Bioware and Microsoft and Best Buy to continue to actively market and sell a completely broken product.
Owned became ownd which begat pwnd which begat bwnd. XBone will bwn you.
The second patch is due today for all platforms except for XBone. But this patch will not affect the save game issue... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!
Oh, and patches three and four are in the works...
Microsoft has his money and all the suckers who preordered it... so what incentive do they have to make it right now? If this were an automobile, there would be a worldwide recall...
This is the first time I've had a negative experience with a serious glitch from Bioware. Sure, ME has a few spots where Shepard will walk into the ceiling... and then there is the abysmal ending of ME3, but that's it. Microsoft is Microsoft... what are you going to do?
But this is exactly the kind of behavior I expect from Best Buy. They have zero concept of standing behind their products. Once you've bought it, you're stuck. Even if the product is defective or obviously broken. I will never buy from them ever.... and that's a decision I made thirteen years ago. I wish my friend listened to me.