Fox Mulder
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Telltale has always got a pass for their garbage, but that's the gaming media. They give plenty of broken games a pass.
With all this in mind, why does this company get a free pass when it commits a Sim City style sin for a point and click adventure game? When they're caught boosting their own ratings on Metacritic and refusing to address complaints, where is the media attention and fanfare? Why are they still considered one of the "good" companies when they treat customers the way they do?
From what I read, people were suggesting it didn't initially say it was a telltale key. I have no way of verifying that though, I personally bought it from telltale directly anyway.I get all the issues with the game not working, but I have absolutely no compassion for anyone who bought from GMG without bothering to read the product page. I have purchased from GMG numerous times and they make it very clear if you are getting a Steam, Origin, Uplay or whatever else key.
When I purchased my copy on Green Man Gaming, I fully expected that it would come with a Steam Key as Season 1 and 400 Days did. It didn't, because Telltale suddenly wants to push their own DRM servers, probably to save a few cents by not giving Valve a cut. It is anti-consumerism at its worst.
I get all the issues with the game not working, but I have absolutely no compassion for anyone who bought from GMG without bothering to read the product page. I have purchased from GMG numerous times and they make it very clear if you are getting a Steam, Origin, Uplay or whatever else key.
From what I read, people were suggesting it didn't initially say it was a telltale key. I have no way of verifying that though, I personally bought it from telltale directly anyway.
Wish they'd have given out a steam key anyway, with Wolf Among Us they did.
That's my point. If it's Steam, it'll say Steam. If it doesn't and someone bought it anyway assuming it was a Steam key, they have no right to be angry at anyone but themselves.
I am away from my PC until the weekend so I haven't got a chance to try Season 2 yet, but I had absolutely no issues with Season 1. No save bugs, no crashes... nothing.
However, I -think- (can't quite remember) when I played 400 Days, the uh... thing at the side of the road was not the thing it should have been, so I'm curious to see if my save is affected or not. I am not 100% sure on that because it happened so quickly and I wasn't paying very close attention.
lol this is some ridiculous victim blaming. Their games don't work. Of course they're angry.
You should work for EA or something.
Because the Steam keys are working and the others aren't. The issues aren't separable. It's the company's obligation to make sure the customers receive working copies.My post has nothing to do with the game not working?
What does buying from GMG and expecting a Steam key even though it doesn't say anywhere you'll get one have to do with the functionality or the game?
Because the Steam keys are working and the others aren't. The issues aren't separable. It's the company's obligation to make sure the customers receive working copies.
I don't think you have any idea what is going on here.
Because the Steam keys are working and the others aren't. The issues aren't separable. It's the company's obligation to make sure the customers receive working copies.
It's amazing how far people will go to defend corporate BS.
Ouch, sucks for PC gamers. Good thing I'm waiting for the console releases.
So, on top of the problems, you'll get a steeper price and horrible performance.
Smart!
http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/...d_episode_5_no_time_left/f/2520/t/393115.aspx
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/30924/ps3-walking-dead-deleted-all-my-saves
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/46886/xbox-360-400days-patch-deleted-saves
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/36401/twd-ep-4-deleted-my-save-game-twice-xbox-360
I didn't have problems on PC but I did on iOS, which is where I had Season 1 + 400 days. First I had my save deleted after downloading ep3, then the system wiped out the 400 days DLC (before I could play it!) and it doesn't let me restore the IAP (it says I should log on the device "I've bought the game on" to redownload it), asking me to pay again. Contacted TT several times, no response. They clearly care a lot about their fanbase, goddamn.
Problems on PC/console/mobile were widespread and well reported, I hate when people (not referring to you man) chime in to say "meh, my copy was perfect, not a big deal anyway"... didn't happen to you (and me, in the case of the PC sku) doesn't mean it's perfect or that there's a problem on the customer's side of things if that happened to many others.
Fucking hate that shitty of attitude.
I agree with this. Shameful!I'm done with Telltale for the near future. The way they treat Wolf Among Us is embarassing, if you do an episodic game do it right. They know how to do it right. Delaying an episode a whole month only to release the next episodic game is a shitty move. I can already see where this goes, we end up getting new episodes every four months because they release Wolf, Walking Dead, Borderlands, Game of Thrones each one episode a month. I'm just glad I didn't buy the season pass, from now on I will buy Telltale games only when the full season is out and on sale.
Neither me or my friend had the issue. But hearing about it is very disappointing. In games like these it's unacceptable really.I don't know a single person who played TWD Season 1 that didn't have the save issue, and at least for the people I know it was never fixed. I played through TWD Season 1 on 360 (download) and it had a shitload of hard freezes and significant load times. The retail 360 version apparently had a ton of other completely different fucked issues.
I'm super glad I played through TWD, but I got it on that crazy sale where I got the whole season at once for like $8, and that's going to continue to be the only way I get their games, dirt cheap and after the fact. This has been a continued trend for them for several releases now, I don't know what the fuck is going on over there and I've certainly been seeing people on GAF complain about it for literally years, I have no idea how they've been getting the free pass they're getting from the "press."
No.I was considering getting Season 2, but the episodic nature of it was a real turn off for me. Is there any schedule as to when the remaining episodes will be released?
Season 2 loaded up fine for me on steam, but i did it hours after the unlock rush. Still though, i'd call a debacle something like BF 4 where shit is broke weeks after release.
Still rather this not happen. Actually i wasnt even aware there was drm outside of the steam drm.
RELOADED
Maybe because games press get free copies, probably for console versions without these specific problems, and either way if they run into any issues Telltale fixes them swiftly? I don't know. But that DRM stuff sounds horrendous.
I didn't know TellTale uses DRM. "The Wolf Amongst Us" was going to be my first purchase of their game but if the DRM thing is true, I'd not touch it with a ten foot pole.
I played the PC version.
The only issue I ran into was that the gamepad would not work without changing a DX resource file. Which is not something that should have happenned, but it took all of 5 minutes to fix.
This right here is a big problem with this company. Episode one of The Walking Dead season 1 had an issue where gamepads were not getting detected for some folks. It required a certain .dll file to be downloaded and placed in the game directory and then everything was peachy. As mentioned, this took all of 5 minutes to resolve. However, Telltale went on to release 4 more episodes of the game and they never fixed it. They couldn't be bothered to put in the minimal amount of time to fix this stupid bug.
And then to top it off, the same bug was present when they released The Wolf Among Us. They literally never, ever go back to patch any technical problem with their games.