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Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards

Posted by Soulskill on from the more-or-less-finished dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios' final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the majority (90%) of users have the game crash after the title screen. Since the marketshare for ATI is nearly equal to that of Nvidia, and the ATI logo is adorning the front page of the Saboteur website, it seems like quite a large mistake to release the game in its current state."

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  1. Saboteur, hey? by scdeimos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like they've been sabotaged.

    1. Re:Saboteur, hey? by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      Try Costco. They'll take back Windows 3.1 and give you a full refund.

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    2. Re:Saboteur, hey? by ScoLgo · · Score: 2, Funny

      They can have my Windows 3.1 when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!

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    3. Re:Saboteur, hey? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They can have my Windows 3.1 when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!

      If you've been running Windows 3.1 since it came out, the "cold, dead fingers" phase of your life isn't too far away......;)

  2. Re:"EA released Pandemic Studios' final game" by Renraku · · Score: 2, Funny

    People won't blame Pandemic, they'll blame EA. But what chance do we have of boycotting EA for it's well-known and shitty practices? Seems like 90% of all big name games come out from them. Perhaps the various Departments of Labor should look into how they treat their staff? Finish this project, lay everyone off, skimp on pay, hours, blacklist people, contract violations, etc.

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  3. Re:"EA released Pandemic Studios' final game" by sznupi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, there are people who think Daikatana was rather good...

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  4. Re:"EA released Pandemic Studios' final game" by Syberz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yup, like Penny-Arcade
    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/22/

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