Defiance is dead to me now!

[Disgruntled447]

I have been battling through the extraordinarily long patches for this game, the disconnects, incredible lag times so severe you can't reload a weapon or even pick up ammo. Today, the game died for me. After another hour long patch, my characters were black at the character screen. I thought...maybe they did that on purpose, but it's weird....Then I log in and I find a graphical nightmare. Far beyond any game I have ever played, this beats them all in crap-tasticness. I have with extreme sadness finally come to realize that this game will not make it to season 2. There is no way to save it from itself. It seems intent on destroying itself.

But, I have hope as I think I can log out, go back to the xbox desktop, and try starting it up again. Maybe, just maybe there's a part of a patch that didn't download correctly...

And then, Hope is crushed altogether as the only option available to me is to install the entire game once more. This will not happen ever again to me. The game has died. I sadly remove the disc from the tray and place it reverently in its case. I will be strong though, and not shed any tears. Tomorrow at first light, I will bury it, and all memories that go with it. I will move on with my life, but Defiance will not be part of it.

[Sanguinesun]

I have been battling through the extraordinarily long patches for this game, the disconnects, incredible lag times so severe you can't reload a weapon or even pick up ammo. Today, the game died for me. After another hour long patch, my characters were black at the character screen. I thought...maybe they did that on purpose, but it's weird....Then I log in and I find a graphical nightmare. Far beyond any game I have ever played, this beats them all in crap-tasticness. I have with extreme sadness finally come to realize that this game will not make it to season 2. There is no way to save it from itself. It seems intent on destroying itself.

But, I have hope as I think I can log out, go back to the xbox desktop, and try starting it up again. Maybe, just maybe there's a part of a patch that didn't download correctly...

And then, Hope is crushed altogether as the only option available to me is to install the entire game once more. This will not happen ever again to me. The game has died. I sadly remove the disc from the tray and place it reverently in its case. I will be strong though, and not shed any tears. Tomorrow at first light, I will bury it, and all memories that go with it. I will move on with my life, but Defiance will not be part of it.

Just imagine how us folks here since before launch feel. :P

[A s0t]

I have been battling through the extraordinarily long patches for this game, the disconnects, incredible lag times so severe you can't reload a weapon or even pick up ammo. Today, the game died for me. After another hour long patch, my characters were black at the character screen. I thought...maybe they did that on purpose, but it's weird....Then I log in and I find a graphical nightmare. Far beyond any game I have ever played, this beats them all in crap-tasticness. I have with extreme sadness finally come to realize that this game will not make it to season 2. There is no way to save it from itself. It seems intent on destroying itself.

But, I have hope as I think I can log out, go back to the xbox desktop, and try starting it up again. Maybe, just maybe there's a part of a patch that didn't download correctly...

And then, Hope is crushed altogether as the only option available to me is to install the entire game once more. This will not happen ever again to me. The game has died. I sadly remove the disc from the tray and place it reverently in its case. I will be strong though, and not shed any tears. Tomorrow at first light, I will bury it, and all memories that go with it. I will move on with my life, but Defiance will not be part of it.

another satisfied customer!!!

[omega32x]

Just imagine how us folks here since before launch feel. :P

I never got to experience alpha but by watching allot of the videos it SEEMED like it was shaping up to be a really fantastic game and thats why i hopped on board to grab it. But it seems like they ether took allot of stuff out or just didn't work with it enough to iron the bugs out to capture a very solid playerbase in time for the show.

[PseudoCool]

Wow.. and I thought I was a dedicated gamer.. but I've never given a game CD a proper funeral before. Amazing however.. that the DLC was PRE-TESTED, and CERTIFIED, by Xbox.. yet it launches and everyone has problems. Hmm.. is that a problem with Trion letting you down, or does it fall on the geeks at Xbox who said the patch was good to go? I dunno.. but I'm thinking you'd be better off dumping that netflix-mambo-kinect-garbage-box for a REAL computer, where the only glitches you find are the PEOPLE! LOL

[A s0t]

Wow.. and I thought I was a dedicated gamer.. but I've never given a game CD a proper funeral before. Amazing however.. that the DLC was PRE-TESTED, and CERTIFIED, by Xbox.. yet it launches and everyone has problems. Hmm.. is that a problem with Trion letting you down, or does it fall on the geeks at Xbox who said the patch was good to go? I dunno.. but I'm thinking you'd be better off dumping that netflix-mambo-kinect-garbage-box for a REAL computer, where the only glitches you find are the PEOPLE! LOL

go look in the 64 bit update that broke defiance.exe lol

[SNSDxTiffanism]

I got a serious patcher problem here -_- Never experience this in previous patchers before. Can't even play anything now.

[hardy83]

If you've had any experience with ANY MMO type game, you'd know that it's probably best to just not touch the game when a bit content update comes out. There's usually a lot of problems that show up.
This happens even with big MMOs like WoW. It's just the fun of programming.

YOU try and go through four million lines of basic to make sure there's no errors and something doesn't horribly go wrong like Evil Lincoln or Evil Atilla the Hun show up in your space canoe!

[omega32x]

Wow.. and I thought I was a dedicated gamer.. but I've never given a game CD a proper funeral before. Amazing however.. that the DLC was PRE-TESTED, and CERTIFIED, by Xbox.. yet it launches and everyone has problems. Hmm.. is that a problem with Trion letting you down, or does it fall on the geeks at Xbox who said the patch was good to go? I dunno.. but I'm thinking you'd be better off dumping that netflix-mambo-kinect-garbage-box for a REAL computer, where the only glitches you find are the PEOPLE! LOL

Buying real computer wont save this game from itself though. Thats the only problem

[Sanguinesun]

I never got to experience alpha but by watching allot of the videos it SEEMED like it was shaping up to be a really fantastic game and thats why i hopped on board to grab it. But it seems like they ether took allot of stuff out or just didn't work with it enough to iron the bugs out to capture a very solid playerbase in time for the show.

What happened was there was TONS of issues about the game during prelaunch Alpha, but we were given the impression over and over that these things for the most part would be cleaned up by launch(perse... still many were skeptical then too).

Launch came and the issues just kept compounding, then the first DLC was to be delayed from its week after launch date.....

and it just cascaded from there.

All in all, the carrot(potential) was just dangled before our cart.