It is a joke to be honest, the game won't even open properly for loads of people - (me included) - and even those who can get it to run suffer from freezing and so forth.
It's obvious to anyone with half a brain there's a problem over all the platforms.
Some communication regarding the issue would be nice, and not unreasonable, but is there any?
Nope.
They could just have sent out a DVD case with 4 blank DVDs in, the effect would have been much the same: no way to play the game. It seems a waste of all the talents of the designers and programmers and so forth if you can't actually look at their work or use it in any way because the stupid thing won't actually load no matter how CPU cores you turn off or what hoops you jump through.
It's a complete waste of everybody's time and money.
If we are supposed to be beta testers they could at least have the curtesy to provide us with a salary and the correct tools for the job, either that or least acknowledge all the people giving them money and make the game playable even on the most basic level.
There's no point having a game that gets rave reviews and awards if no one can actually play it.
(Although someone apparently must have been able to, so why can't we, the ones who are actually paying for it)?
Clearly the answer is to just not play the game, what's the point anyway when there's no guarantee it will work beyond a certain point. If I buy a toaster I expect it to make toast out of the box. If I buy a game I expect it to be at least mostly playable out of the box. This isn't and that's ridiculous.
That level of fail in any other sale/buy relationship would be unacceptable, why is it that games companies appear to feel that it's ok?
