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UK Group Seeks Black Ops Compensation

[Jan 21, 2011, 10:52 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

UK advocacy group Gamers' Voice tells IncGamers they plan on reporting Activision to the Office of Fair Trading since Activision has not replied to an open letter they sent to Activision over bugs in the PC and PS3 editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. That open letter says, in part: "The complaints range from freezing when a new map is being loaded, locking up of PS3's and PC's while running the game, inability to log into multiplayer matches and connection drops mid game. None of this apparently applies to the Xbox 360 version, which is clearly the lead platform for the title." Chris O'Regan of Gamers' Voice tells them, "As a result of their inaction we will test the might of government agencies against Activision. We can only hope this brings about some litigious action. These agencies do exist to protect our rights as consumers, let us see if they can fulfill their remit on this pressing issue. GV wish to set an example with Activision to ensure games are not released in an unfinished state. If litigation is initiated, then a precedent would be set. In other words, publishers will have to reconsider releasing unfinished code in the future, in the UK at least."

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Re: UK Group Seeks Black Ops Compensation

Jan 21, 2011, 10:30

spindoctor

to ensure games are not released in an unfinished state

What does this mean exactly? Who gets to quantify what is "finished state"? If you are looking for all-encompassing definition where software has absolutely zero bugs and works flawlessly on every possible permutation of hardware in the world, then no software in history has ever been "finished". And no software ever will be either. If something works flawlessly for you and doesn't work at all for me (and that does happen a lot), is it finished or unfinished? Can the same product be finished and unfinished at the same time?

This shit sounds good on paper, but is utterly useless in the real world. If you must cause pointless legal drama over something, then how about working towards getting the government to mandate that customers can return software (that isn't working properly for a specific individual), a right which seems to exist in a lot of other products but is strangely missing from digital media/content.




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