To Kiya. Sorry. 'Dropped the Ball' means made a mistake...like a goalkeeper in football! Since I feel that BD doesn't match the standards of DD I believe they made a mistake in releasing it when they did. Of course it might not have been their choice as the publishers could have pushed them to release early.
@Ben => thanks for explaining your phrase. I wish, the Larians would have released the game later - putting financial and law reasons aside (no knowledge about publishers and their conditions). About standards => DD was buggy upon release, if you remember - and turned out very nice after all patches erased major bugs.
I don't know, if you read all posts since release, but gamer pressure was very high and demanding in some cases - so, Larians decided to release patches very quickly. As the waters have calmed down a bit, I hope, further patches will concentrate on bug-fixing and not on tweaks. And I have to agree with Grim and Jurak => if a bug is fixed, "whining" is pointless, even if it has left bruises on your gamer memory. Why? Because Larian efforts are "drowned" and leave an impression, most bugs have not been solved already - but remain as unsolved and add to a distrust => bug or something a gamer missed? Recent example is a post about the wrong diamond ring in Act 4 ([color:"yellow"] edit: now I'm insecure about this post, hoping to have a look into this save[/color] - never encountered this in EV or GV myself). It is difficult to help then, Ben. No, I'm talking about faking a game "nice". But I wish for more fairness and an open approach towards the game.
I have no probs with someone preferring Div to BD - matter of taste. But memory is a strange thing => I know of many bug posts on the old forum concerning Div - and now it's glorified and BD is in its shadow. This does not match my opinion => taking every game as unique. And here I have the same result as you => leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Even if you feel relieved <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Kiya
As for the Div standard => EV 1.29 was buggy and it took one year until 1.34 erased most bugs (3 skills still broken and MTT quest is still not perfect) - BD is on the English market since 2nd May => please, keep relations in mind.
