Amen brother, amen.
I know that I for one was really supporting this game at first and I do like it a lot (being the old school fart that I am), but the bugs have caused me to become a little frusterated. A patch is very much needed, if not for us whining players, but to save the reputations of both Activision and HPI. I know all about programming and making games, but this is a PROFESSIONAL title that we shell out big bucks for. No one is perfect, but flaws such as the ones in this game need to be adressed.
I am never one to cheat on games, which surprised me on this title. I discovered the gold cheat, which could be done so many ways, like buying and selling arrows, I looked at it as a time thing. I knew exactly how I wanted my party to be, changing classes a lot like I did in Wiz 7, but in that game, you could change FOR FREE.
I like the guilds and stuff, but I dislike how everything in the game revolves around the all mighty gold piece (kind of like real life I guess). I'm sure hoping someday that some RPG will come out with little or NO MONEY. I'm sure there are some out there, Stonekeep comes to mind, though its not like a typical old school RPG. I think the guild entry should have been earned by quest completion, and it all could be the same, just earned through helping NPC's.
I mean, lets face it, a bag full of gold in this game makes your characters get powerful really fast. You can bless weapons and train in guilds to your hearts content, which does make the game a lot easier. I saw it as a way to save time stocking up on gold forever, since I'm no longer a teenager with the time to play that I had in my youth.
As far as that goes, I have played the game on my own, without looking at spoilers for any quests ahead of me in the game. Thats the only area where I have not "cheated".
I chose not to over abuse the lamp, or the toughen spell thing. The extra gold was all I needed. Unfortunately, I had to use the guild cheat as with the quest bugs I got really frusterated after so much hard work, and my characters could not all get credit, since I just found items like the Band of Boars, not knowing of the quest and then only the character holding it got credit.
So, I do like this game, but the many bugs were too tempting for me, alas the Dark Side hath consumed my soul...but as far as that goes, this is just a game....so I've better things to do anyway.
Scronan
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