Quote Originally Posted by JohnZS View Post
Sorry to go on a bit of a rant here guys

I'm a huge fan of the GTA series and legitimately own every GTA game from GTA1 up until GTA San Andreas on my PC....however as bad as this may sound, R* are crap at supporting their PC fanbase.

To put it bluntly I would not hold your breath on ANY more patches other than the initial "token" 1.1 patch.

I have had dealings with R* before, and on numerous occasions and have reported reproducible bugs in GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas. Initially my reports were to frontline support @ Take2games, but eventually I got through to R* (series of e-mails with screen shots and dxdiag logs etc got me passed up the chain..)

All that R* did was thanked me for my time and AGREED that they were bugs which they could also reproduce on their test PC's and in their development environment, but said they would not release a patch as they were working on "other projects", but would make a not of the bugs as to try and not incorporate them in any future games.

This happened with Vice City and San Andreas. All we get is ONE patch (A last minute fix or 2 which did not make it into the final release, or in the case of San Andreas to remove something mass hysteria did not want in the game (no hot coffee patch)).

R* hang people out to dry and don't care, they just milk the money cow.

I wish more developers were like vALVE WHO DO LISTEN AND SUPPORT THEIR FANBASE.

Yes when Half-Life 2 was released their was the initial problems with "stutter", but vALVE worked hard and eventually ironed this gremlin out within at least a couple of months of launch.

I have not yet bought GTA4 (therefore have not played it), and I will only purchase this IF the issues many people on the net are reporting have at least been addressed in patches.

I hope that with this being a "Games for Windows Certified Game", R* will have to do more support for their end users, otherwise...GTA4 will be yet another buggy Port which had so much potential, yet failed at the finishing post.

Here endeth the rant

John
Game support might be a bit crap but at least GTA and it's brethren were made free after 7~ years. Valve could do that with Half Life (instead of $1 sales) but they haven't.