is Ageod still a bad game company?

[13th Spade]

they are known for very buggy games and constant crashes to desktop....are they still a crap Co. with this Civil war 2 offering....(I have the 1st on disc,,cant finish it as game crashes)

[Shangri-la wrecker]

All you have to do is tell it to continue process and the game will not crash.

[76561198007484948]

What I want to know is - when are Steam going to get the new 30 Years War and also the Napoleon Campaigns Ageod games? The latter is being released this week!

[Panam]

This game would be outstanding if it worked. I have been getting the same crashes when I proceed to next turn. I can't go for more than a few turns before it crashes. When I reload the last saved game, I have to redo all the orders to my units again. What is the point of saving my game if I have to re-issue orders every time I load it?

And their latest game, Napoleon's Wars, has the exact same crashing problems, but even worse than CW 2. I am routinely getting crashes right out of the gate at turn 1 when I proceed to next turn. Both these games are unplayable in their current states. I spent 50 dollars on this game, and can't make it past turn 3.

I have a LOT of wargames in my library, and NONE of them ever have these issues. So what is AGEOD doing wrong?

I know that a majority of players aren't getting these issues, but enough players are that AGEOD should be doing something to rectify these problems. I have no idea whether AGEOD has closed betas to iron out these bugs before release. But testing this game on multiple platforms might be correcting these issues before the game is released to the public.

As far as correcting these issues goes, I don't have the time to be going into my files, copying the game logs, then logging into the AGEOD forums and posting the logs there. I have done this before, and none of the issues were resolved. I won't be doing that any more. Many other games have automatic error logging, where a simple click of a button sends the game logs to the developer. Why can't AGEOD have a feature like this in their games, given their inherent bugginess?

I thought maybe their new Napoleon game wouldn't have the crashing issue, and I bought it as soon as I got their email advertisement for it. Huge mistake. I feel like I'm doing beta tests with both CW2 and Napoleon.

I won't say I've bought my last AGEOD game, as when they work, they work magnificently. But that is the end for me until I see some progress in resolving crashes and more efficient customer support.

[Husard]

13†h ♠ eredeti hozzászólása:

@thorn,, I beg to differ,, have 2 games by them on disc and they are both unplayable to the end because of crashing, ect.

If you have 2 games that constantly crash, why are you even asking if said company is still "crap"?

[Rystar]

It would be nice if people could post their hardware specs when they have these bitchout sessions here. I don't have any issues, but I would love to see them fixed so these threads cease to exist.

I'm planning to get an AMD card this time around... Are people having issues with AMD/ATI cards? My guess is that many of these crashes are due to using integrated intel graphics cards on a laptop, which uses shared memory amoung other compromises. It could also be a driver issue, but I would never know because no one ever supplies that crucial information.

[Enthusiastically Wrong]

Bob Star eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm planning to get an AMD card this time around... Are people having issues with AMD/ATI cards?

I just nabbed the game on sale and played for an hour in the tutorials - no crashes, decent performance for the most part, running an AMD 380 card and FX6300 CPU. So slightly upper middle specs and no problems here. I can't speak for others though, some games have trouble with specific chipsets even if the hardware itself isn't "bad"(Mass Effect 1 has some sections that get graphical glitches with upper end FX CPUs but not lower ones for example).

[Naughty Mouse]

I have civil, napo, pride of nation, and end of all wars and all of them have random crashes. It really sucks as these games take a long time to play and a crash can really hurt you by taking allot of time away.

[mariandavid]

Utter, invented nonsense on some of these posts - endlessly blaming all but themselves and their equipment for failures which, magically, only a few ever experience. I dislike the clunkiness of some parts of the Athena engine but crashes - no.

[AJB]

mariandavid eredeti hozzászólása:

Utter, invented nonsense on some of these posts - endlessly blaming all but themselves and their equipment for failures which, magically, only a few ever experience. I dislike the clunkiness of some parts of the Athena engine but crashes - no.

It does crash quite a bit. I just played today and it crashed randomly and I had to start a new game.

[13th Spade]

mariandavid eredeti hozzászólása:

Utter, invented nonsense on some of these posts - endlessly blaming all but themselves and their equipment for failures which, magically, only a few ever experience. I dislike the clunkiness of some parts of the Athena engine but crashes - no.

I grew up in a time when things were made right and you expected quality from everything you purchased, I also had to be on a sports team that actually won a championship and earned thier trophies before they got one, the schools I attended taught math, history and science without it being convoluted by a bunch of leftwing PC idiots.....when I hear a comment like yours I know your ignorance isn't really your fault, you have grown up in a world that has taught you that mediocrity is acceptable and has even rewarded you for your lack of accomplishments..it is truly sad you will never know the world I knew. I would say good luck with the rest of your life but you will amount to nothing anyways.

[Rystar]

Hopefully one of the mods will lock this thread or just remove it entirely. There's nothing of value here.

[L4 of the West]

Bob Star eredeti hozzászólása:

Hopefully one of the mods will lock this thread or just remove it entirely. There's nothing of value here.

why? it helping me deiced about this game, so far it if on sale chance it if not don't and hope for a third one where they fix the issues and do more cool stuff,

by the way i saw something about foreign intervention, what exactly do they mean there?

[Rystar]

L4 of the WEST eredeti hozzászólása:

Bob Star eredeti hozzászólása:

Hopefully one of the mods will lock this thread or just remove it entirely. There's nothing of value here.

why? it helping me deiced about this game, so far it if on sale chance it if not don't and hope for a third one where they fix the issues and do more cool stuff,

by the way i saw something about foreign intervention, what exactly do they mean there?

I made that comment because the topic of the crashes constantly turns into flame wars. Some people have the issue, other's don't, but it always descends into attacks. That said, things settled so it's not much of an issue now.

The Foreign invervention refers to having a European nation (France, England) join the war in support of the South. That was a huge fear of the North's during the war and even prompted Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Once Lincoln made the war about race and the terrible institution of slavery, European nations were far less interested in being labeled as a slavery sympathizer so military intervention was far less likely.

[Klutch]

Pistolero eredeti hozzászólása:

Read lies before, but these are over the top. CW2 is a buggy piece of sh!t that routinely crashes or locks up, almost always when proceeding to the next turn. Rather than lie through your teeth do a better job of programming and support; but that is obviously not what motivates you. Screw you, therefore; I would have been out of business decades ago if my product was even once such crap. Keep making games; anything more serious on your part would be downright scary. You are an embarrassment only to yourselves, due to a total lack of any pride in the quality of your product. I would not let you sweep my floors.

Pisolero is a sign twurler at Carls Jr.

[Jaiyro]

I used to think AGEOD was a bad company but really it is fine, just needs some time to get used to gameplay, and by the sounds of your issues your PC needs some work probably. No problem of AGEOD.