I had several CTDs after 1.45, so I stopped playing and waited for a patch. That's major to me. I wont play a game where any minute I can crash. And saving every 30 seconds isn't fun either.

That post about the "next patch" was made just a couple days after 1.45 came out, 6/02. 4 months ago. Sure it's slightly possible they are working on a patch secretly and not telling anyone about it or asking us for ideas, but that would be stupid. "Let's not tell our user base anything at all for 4 months" is not a good plan. I checked the german forum as well, nothing there about a new patch either.

Secondly, do you know how long it takes to spell check a sentence? Like 30 seconds. I don't give a crap if english isn't their main language, but when you have tools like spellcheck.net available, there's no excuse for an "official" post of a game company to have such obviously misspelled words.

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Isn't it reasonable to think that they wait till all releases are released before they release the final patch.


Did that make sense to you when you typed it?

It's truly wonderful that you guys aren't having any serious problems. I'm glad you took the time out of your busy lives to come here and tell me that. I was having serious problems, others are too. I'm not even going to try and count how many times the word "crash" is said in a topic title in the tech section's front page, more then 20 it looks like, not to mention all the "freezes" and "bugs" and "errors". If you really think this game is "ok", then I feel sorry for you because it's obvious you've never played a quality product in your life. Look at games like Diablo, Neverwinter Nights, Dungeon Seige, you wont see people complaining about crashes or freezes on their forums. You may argue that those are "big" companies and have resources to fix their products, but if Larian can't do something so simple as fix the major problems in their games, they shouldn't be making them. Hell, look at Sacred, that game was a steaming pile of bugs when it came out, but the no-name developers who made it, Ascaron, have spent pretty much every day since it came out working on making it better, this is another "small" company, they can do it, why can't Larian?

ladyterry, Larian isn't doing anything with the forum, as far as I can see Lynn is here moding it, but he is not Larian, most likely he isn't even being paid to do this, I'm not sure what exactly he does, but for most companies the forum mods are volunteers. And I do infact read game magazines, many of them actually, and it's quite the opposite of what you say, many buggy games are released and then fixed, games that are never fixed are rare occurrences, unless you are dealing with very low budget/home made games. Quality games are maintained for years and years, look at Diablo 2, been out for 4 years and a huge patch was added not too long ago that added new life to the game. The only good game's I've bought that are no longer supported are the Black Isle games since they closed down, everything else going back 10 years I can find the website for and get patches and tech help. Even some game's who's developers/publishers went under still have maintained sites. So I don't know what garbage you've been playing or reading. If you can play BD, then you're computer can't be that old.

@Larian, if you read this and are indeed making a new patch for this game, then I must say you have made a very bad error in judgement. It is very, very important to let your users know what is going on. 4 months of silence with a buggy product in the hands of frustrated gamers is not a smart move.

Then again, doing nothing is even worse. Either way you are in hot water with many.