So Develoers... what is your response to all the bug postings?

0_0 They have been replying to threads since before release all the time.

I am sorry to be so frank, but are you blind?
I have seen lots and lots of feed back about the bugs. If you need to ask whether SD cares is an obvious sign that you are ill-informed of their presence on these forums.

Read the journals: https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=164&AID=102455

Wow, you really don't have a clue do ya bud. Seriously.. if you spent half the time you just did writing that totally incorrect trollish post. You would know there is a big patch coming out today. Further.. these developers actually give a damn. And what's this about unplayable.

I call BS. You junkslut!

I've been playing since it was released. The game is great. There are currently some minor issues that have to be worked out. But they don't ruin the games entertainment factor.

They are very involved in answering here. I

Overall, its a pretty bug free game. Many of the same things are being reported over and over again.

Unfortunately, I think all the forum posts give a false impressinon of there being more problems then there are.

I have spent about 15 hours playing now, and I am addicted.

Tony

I have never seen a development team so responsive as Stardock. There are multiple Stardockians posting on multiple threads, answering folks' questions.

In addition, a couple things that really don't seem to help is that people don't seem to be :

a)reading the readme;
reading the manual;
c) reading the sticky threads; or
d) reading the forum posts... like this one HERE https://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx that says Stardock is planning to release an electronic update today, Friday.

Perhaps if people did, we wouldn't see so many lame posts about "bugs" that really aren't bugs, but are people's own problems because people haven't learned how to bleedin' read.

FYI uglycow has always been a troll guys just move along there is nothing to see here

What cave did you crawl out of to come to these forums and write that rubbish. If you spend some time READING them instead on whining/trolling you'd know how much Stardock is working on them and how they are much more accessible in these forums than any other games developer I've seen.

Bonus Trolling points for you!

I'm a developer...just not for Stardock.

1. Lots of bug reports are duplicates.
2. Lotsof bug reports aren't really bugs - they're suspicions, user error, or game working as designed but user thinks it should be different.
3. Most people aren't noticing bugs, or aren't posting, and/or are just playing. The people who do post usually have problems or bugs to discuss (or they're supposed to be working and are at the forum instead...DOH...that's me).

Check out the journals - there's a patch coming out today, and considering the game is a few days old the amount of things they're fixing already is staggering.

If you know anything about Stardock you know they take care of their code and customers - they are probably the best game developer ever at taking care of problems and doing so quickly. So while there are real bugs and gameplay issues they will be handled.

The game as released is very playable. There are some issues but they're either easily avoided or easily worked around in general. The sky is not falling!

Also, you must not be paying attention. There are Stardock people replying to tons of threads and they are also active in an IRC channel handling things in real time. You would almost have to go out of your way to NOT get support from Stardock! It almost feels like you could call up Brad personally on the phone to shoot the breeze about the game (kidding but how can anyone seriously bash Stardocks support or communication).

DOGPILE ON THE OP

I want to hand this copy a copy of a Paradox or EA version 1.00 game just to show him what really buggy means...

This release wasn't as smooth as Civ IV's, but it was reasonably bug free, and most of the bugs are performance not gameplay bugs, which can be worked around.

Just curious when the patch is coming out today now, it's 4pm, and Stardock usually gets out on time.

My comment too: are you blind or downright ignorant? They're busting their asses working on the bugs. The game' s only released a couple a days and the first patch is allready available. They probably have the most open policy towards customers seen in years. Maybe you should document your "valuable" opinion first before writing such an obliterative post that misses the ball by a lightyear.

No matter how true what they are saying is .... fanbois make me giggle

Myros

I think everything that needs to be said has been said here. The development team is working on fixing the problems that have been reported. Your posts are being read, if not always responded to. The updates will be out when we can get them out. Half of the rest of the staff has been busy packing boxes to make sure that people who bought the game get what's coming to them (in the good sense).

Seriously, did you even read the forums or journal entries before you made this thread? I have seen replies from Stardock in almost the majority of bug posts on this forum. Brad aka Frogboy made a whole journal entry stating a patch would be released soon and all the bugs that the patch will address. Your post is pointless and trollish.

game working as designed but user thinks it should be different.

Lack of description can also be considered as a bug

Ummm.... has this guy actually looked at the forums? Seriously, Stardock kick ass, we've got a patch just as we're reaching the end of the 4th day. How on earth is that bad. Plus, like EVERYONE has said, read the journals, read the threads themselves! They're constantly responding.

Gotta say though, as trolls go, that was impressively annoying

The only thing worse than trolls are fanboys.

Doesn't matter how legitimate your grievance is the fanbois will drown you out. You're a troll and that's fine. It's just ironic that a dozen other trolls come out in defense of Stardock. It's sad that this is a game which actually deserves to suceed but the fanbois will bury it with their vitriol. Games improve through criticism - if you crush dissent you crush creativity. Be proud of yourselves, fanbois...

Amazing. You can read "bug" reports (probably only 1/4 of the ones I've read are genuine - the rest are wrong, a misunderstanding, or user error) but not the post talking about all the fixes in the patch to be issued today or early next week.

Also, you're the one who was talking rubbish about the game before, and everything you was saying was in complete opposition to reality, saying GC2 didn't have some things it did in fact have, etc.

I've had an excellent experience with the game so far. You, OTOH, have doubtlessly never played it and never intend to. You attitude shows that you have no intentions other than to cause trouble. Yawn.

I can understand that once the game is out, there is so many posts, including bug reports, that even someone from SD would have full time job answering those, then even then only small portion of the board would be covered - each possible bug need to be analysed and replayed.

So, despite of the high level of support (I have not seen this level for ANY game), anyone can get impression of being ignored during these hectic first few days. So, guys, please stop calling him a troll, it is easy mistake to make.

y dosnt stardock just erase this thread? if it was right then they should keep it up but since it is wrong and providing false impression of the game then blast it to smitherines!

I was not attacking stardock. All the posts I've seen so far about bugs havn't had any developers comments. If I'm blind, well then I'm blind. I'm not trying to trash stardock. I said it's a good game. And just because I have experienced bugs and others havn't doesn't mean there is something wrong with me, a "junkslut" as someone called me. If this community is so unsure about themselves that everybody has to jump on the "kill the guy who dares to post what we don't want to see" bandwagon then I'll gladly spend my money somewhere else. Just so everyone knows I, like very many others, didn't have to spend a penny on this game. And this is the best free game I have ever downloaded.

Ugly cow wins the "Dumbass" post of the week.

on an unrelated note I saw

This release wasn't as smooth as Civ IV's, but

civ 4's release was a disaster. out of the box it didn't run on almost any ati cards. they fixed it within a few days. but copared to the civ 4 release, galciv 2 has been a paradise (http://civilization4.net/3/177/341/). nearly everyone i know was affected by that. could not play the game until there was a work around found which was found by a third party site.

Doesn't matter how legitimate your grievance is the fanbois will drown you out.

There's nothing legitimate in his greievance. Nobody is drowning out legitimate criticism. It's not "fanboi" to jump on someone who would attack the integrity of the developers who have quite obviously been spending day and night responding to posts, preparing an update.

And what about these "bugs"? What serious ones? Half of the posts are the same few people who can't be bothered to read the pinned topics or a read me.

I resent the implication that anyone who defends Stardock as being a "fanboil". When legitimate problems are getting burried then yell fanboi. Some ass hat coming on and not looking around accusing Stardock of not caring or not working hard deserves to get drowned out.

How come none of you have seen any of what YOU would consider good posts where I've praised stardock? I'll answere that question by refering to the bandwagon I mentioned ealier.