How BIS is failing as a company

[diveyez]

So it was what 2013, the release of Arma 3 hype! Not.
It is now 2019 and we see everyone who uses this software having major problems with the software. I’m now going to share an experience from February 2019, today.

Yesterday I decided it was time to reinstall windows. That went well, everything is smooth. System runs great, nothing is missing. I install arma again, validate, I open the game. It runs amazingly fast compared to what it was two days ago. I take a nap, get up go to work. Come home to game.
I open arma, load into my favorite server.
It loads a black screen with nothing but a cursor.
I validate and verify my game. Open it, load into a server and the same thing happens? What changed? Well for starters arma all the sudden is trying to use an invisible adapter, at the wrong refresh rate and at the wrong resolution. I erase the settings file and it works! Not.
Load up again, and the same thing happens.

I reinstall arma,
(1gpbs line, didn’t take long)
It runs great, not. The same thing happens.

Why about other games.
GTAV loads up and runs at 97 FPS on the highest settings flawlessly. I try arma 3 again. Same problem. What is arma doing? Well it seems that the software is just broken. I mean how is it that the software just stops working when it’s not even in usage at the time?

On the forums, I try all the recommended solutions for this problem. Absolutely nothing works. Arma just continues to load a blank black screen with a cursor at the respawn screen. What the hell?

I contact BIS directly; they send me to the forums I mentioned with the solutions I already tried after I mentioned I already tried all of the mentioned forum solutions they pointed out.
So why post this?
It is to raise awareness that the BIS team in no way shape or form plans to address issues players are having and they do not plan to update the engine or release a new title. This is how developers that do not deserve support from the community behave. Without the modding community arma would be dead because let’s face it, running an engine on the dead language sqf which has not been used by any software companies in a decade is a failed business model and they deserve all of the criticism that is coming to them.

Just review the forums to find your solution? No.
How about you update the engine and fix the software you expect us to continue to buy and use.

This is pathetic and the community should stop supporting them.

There is one good developer working on the entire project. Dwarden, this individual hears the cries about crippling performance issues and has released binaries to deal with it. However his work is not in the stable release? Why the hell not? Because BIS has no focus on providing quality content, they are lazy, they take mods and turn it into “new dlc and updates”. That is theft of intellectual property and in a very lazy and disrespectful form.

I value the community and the content creators in it, but I in no way shape or form value the company Bohemia interactive because they simply do not care.

In the words of drewski, just produce a quality release and give the world arma 4 and stop focusing on the failed engine you are using for arma3. 20mb mods add features to the game that should have been added into the game.

Their priorities are so out of touch with the needs of current gamers and they need to evaluate themselves because all we see is a money making scheme engineered to enslave people into a schizophrenic battleground operating on a language that is outdated by a decade.

Meanwhile, there is software companies making video games that perform extremely well and their team includes 3 people and sometimes only 1 person.

Retire and close your company because 80% of your following has already stated they probably won’t be buying arma 4 unless they see a major improvement in how arma 3 issues are handled.

Nobody wants to move to the Czech Republic to work. So stop expecting that and outsource some real talent at actual productive studios.

Peace to all who continue to drive the community and thanks for proving quality content while the software development company responsible for the platform consistently fails to deliver the stability needed for you to continue your work.
I mean that, the content creators and arma players are the only reason arma is even listed as one of the top games played on steam.

[GobboKirk]

Who are these "everyone" that has problems... Weird...

[=MS=Scout]

The only time you should reinstall Windows if you have Malware or Viruses or You got caught running Cheats and you're starting a 2nd Account.

There's no problem with the game itself, It's all the F- up Mods that's making the game run like Sh*t and Pis* Poor servers and their Internet .

You more than likely messed up something else in the Windows and I'm pretty sure you didn't wipe clean your Hard Drive to reinstall Windows, Just copied over it and Don't get all bent out of shape because you're the one complaining Arrma 3 not running right.

[=MS=Scout]

and if you're running Windows 10 ? Now there's your Problem. Keep working at it, You'll figure it out.

[diveyez]

I am not going to explain my process Scout. I assure you that drive was wiped clean by GParted twice ;)

[5Head]

Originally posted by Diveyez:

they do not plan to update the engine or release a new title

https://twitter.com/maruksp/status/959445284320407552?lang=en
hmMMMMMM

Me Thinks you might be a little outdated.

[Captain n00by]

Gotta make those Xbox exclusive PUBG copy cats tho...

Win10 updates can mess up games btw, it's not always the developer's fault, although they should keep there game up-to-date if they are still actively supporting it.

[2+2=5]

Originally posted by V. Berlioz:

Originally posted by gökmen:

drop that nazi attitude, bro, nobody is pulling a gun to your head to play arma.

Amen. Attention grabbing rants are not how you persuade anyone. I know from experience.

arma is not a game, it is a platform. that is the problem of some struggle to understand.
its a packed-content to a degree, but fundamentally its a platform provided for creativity and imagination. If its like "knock knock" then nobody is at home, people should look elsewhere instead of "shutdown that studio, retire and never develop games again cuz you struggle my braindead being with some headspace"

im not trying to persuade anybody that is braindead, it just needed to be adressed tho.

[Sablerno]

Bohemia Interactive takes criticism very well. However, how many people do you think contact them on a weekly basis regarding performance? Many, that's why they are redirecting you to the forums, the community knows how to tweak settings very well and that's why they are doing it.

If Bohemia Interactive didn't adress issues they would have a very small player base. Yet they have managed to push the Arma series to become some of the most realistic and enjoyable games yet out there. They have allowed for a fantastic Modding Community, even giving awards and recognition to people who support the community. They have grown the Arma series from being another game in the crowd to be inspiration for other games (for example PUBG which was originally a mod on Arma).

Bohemia Interactive is not perfect, like any Game Developers, however, compared to other ones out there, they are great.

[diveyez]

SQF is a language that has not been used by a respectable software company in over ten years. Processing scripts with a database language was a bad idea from day 1.

From a developer friend: I dont know why you bother with that arma3 engine. It just spits out errors when you try a vault a wall.

[El Berl]

Originally posted by gökmen:

Originally posted by V. Berlioz:

Amen. Attention grabbing rants are not how you persuade anyone. I know from experience.

arma is not a game, it is a platform. that is the problem of some struggle to understand.
its a packed-content to a degree, but fundamentally its a platform provided for creativity and imagination. If its like "knock knock" then nobody is at home, people should look elsewhere instead of "shutdown that studio, retire and never develop games again cuz you struggle my braindead being with some headspace"

im not trying to persuade anybody that is braindead, it just needed to be adressed tho.

I was saying "you" in reference to Diveyez, not you. It's a conventional english way of stating a principle. Either way, I agree with you but not with Failed Unit Leader, Prince of Placebo, Diveyez.

[diveyez]

Arma is from 2013, my gaming rig was built in december of 2018, yet it runs below 60 FPS. That is not even logical to think on. They should be increasing performance in Arma. If they don't plan on releasing a new Arma. Swap engines. Who cares if it breaks all the mods. We will make new ones. I will make new ones. I will make new opensource mods and host the entire project in a public repository and allow everyone to modify the code as they wish a redistribute it.

I will post details about the next mod soon. Just waiting for some models ;)

[diveyez]

It did not mess up the game in anyway. What it did was create partitions on the drive to temporary store update files, and kept back files, then locked it somehow and disabled the ability to use DiskCleanup and Cleanup System files. If you didn't know, when windows updates it keeps the old version for, ... IIRC 90 days... So there is a large chunk of your drive, wasted for no good reason.

What happened with Arma, was itself breaking itself. Did another fresh install of it. About to boot it and try to get back to work on the new mods. These new mods are focused on a friendly fun gameplay mode that is entirely non lethal. Think this: family fun center ;)

Originally posted by noobean:

Gotta make those Xbox exclusive PUBG copy cats tho...

Win10 updates can mess up games btw, it's not always the developer's fault, although they should keep there game up-to-date if they are still actively supporting it.

[El Berl]

Originally posted by Diveyez:

Arma is from 2013, my gaming rig was built in december of 2018, yet it runs below 60 FPS. That is not even logical to think on. They should be increasing performance in Arma. If they don't plan on releasing a new Arma. Swap engines. Who cares if it breaks all the mods. We will make new ones. I will make new ones. I will make new opensource mods and host the entire project in a public repository and allow everyone to modify the code as they wish a redistribute it.

I will post details about the next mod soon. Just waiting for some models ;)

Expecting modders to work like dogs is a clear indication that you are not a modder. Whatever happened to that wunderwaffe of a memory allocator that "you made" that supposedly got you running at excellent frames?

Keep being an attention-lusting placebo prince, buddy. World doesn't revolve around you and your desires.

[diveyez]

What the hell are you talking about? Do I know you? Do you think you know me? V. Beriloz does not register with any cache's or databases.
Do not answer those questions because they are rhetorical. But please keep responding so this post goes entirely viral.

I will be sure you are the first person to get a stable release of the next project. I also hope you join me for laser tag.

[El Berl]

Originally posted by Diveyez:

What the hell are you talking about? Do I know you? Do you think you know me? V. Beriloz does not register with any cache's or databases.
Do not answer those questions because they are rhetorical. But please keep responding so this post goes entirely viral.

I will be sure you are the first person to get a stable release of the next project. I also hope you join me for laser tag.

I'm talking about this. Do you not remember your placebo product placement?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/107410/discussions/0/1743353798878948102/

I gave you the benefit of the doubt, gave you a chance on SABRE's discord. You did nothing but try to misdirect me, to no avail, towards your own ambitions. Alas, when I gave you the boot out of there, it was backed by nearly unanimous approval from my community. To say then that you do not know me is a demonstration of your bad faith. You are a man of bad intentions and if you think ruining your rep on this forum is a good way to bring Bohemia to their knees, then so it is indeed your decision.