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I challenge the assertion that ANY patch was in the works from anyone. At least no patch was being provided for by the dev team (IG). Several sources have stated that the Dev team was NEVER contracted to provide another patch. Perhaps some yahoo up at VUG QA was tweaking some maps to get rid of the more obvious holes and exploits, and throwing in PB in the D/L, but as far as an honest to goodness patch? Forget it.

Cheating is rampant in pub games, whether people know it or not. The amount of people caught using an older version of an aimbot has been more than 250 - and as I said, that is with an older version of an aimbot, that is being detected on a handful of servers that are running anti-cheat protection that the community made. Lord knows how many people are using more up to date aimbots (or other hacks) that aren't being detected, or simply playing on servers that are not running the cheat protection in the first place.

And the community has addressed the maps problem. An official patch that included those map fixes being done by the community would've been nice, since it would force everyone (the few still playing this game) to have the same maps, but even then, it wasn't neccessary.

So, even if it was just PB, that would've been helpful.

But nooooo....VUG can't even bother to try and help with the rampant cheating going on - rampant cheating based on code that should've been fixed two years ago when the dev team was working on the game. The guy that made the most widely used aimbot for T:V used the same exact exploit that was in the Unreal engine from ages ago. Another exploit using the web admin function is also a well known code bug from the same engine, and should've been fixed during development. It was widely publicized. This spells incompetence.

It's disgusting how little the consumers are valued. The company has such a poor reputation - and this isn't helping at all. There are a lot of Tribes players that haven't bought the game simply because of the bugs, cheating, and exploits - and now they never will because of the shortsightedness of a few guys sitting around a water cooler in suits.

VUG deserves every ounce of anger being directed towards them for this boondoggle.

Ok I’ve been in bed sick since last Tuesday, so I just got the news. I am sad to say this is the straw that broke the camels back. Perhaps I am grumpy from being sick all week, but I am pretty sure my feelings are legit. In the past I have defended T:V and VUG. This betrayal of my trust is an unforgivable sin.

It is now my FIRM belief that VUG is to incompetent to remain in the game market. Time after time, decision after decision they have shown they are either unwilling or unable to make good on the promises they have made. I suggest therefore that VUG draws from its French connections and surrender. Pack up shop and leave the industry all together. VUG is the worst thing that has happened to the game industry in the past few years, it is time to rid the industry of this cancer.

This isn’t a flame, or insult, this is an honest to goodness suggestion of how you, VUG, can rectify the problem. Face it nearly everything you touch gets corrupted. There is but one solution then. Leave the industry. Sell off the rights you own to companies who are able to do their jobs correctly. Then slink away to some place where we will never hear of you again.

Perhaps it would be different it you were simply EVIL rather then incompetent. I could deal with an evil company, heck I would relish dealing with an evil company (rubs hands together and laughs evilly.) However the sad truth is known, you are unable to fulfil your function. Ergo there is but one course of action open to you, Sell your holdings to people who are able to fulfil the functions then leave the industry totally.

Conversely I will give you one other option as a way out. Perhaps its because I want to believe you can change, perhaps its because I am a nice guy deep down. Perhaps its just because I want to see you squirm. But whatever my motivations are they are my own. So here it is, your one other option. All you have to do is answer 1 question. Then stick to that answer when the time comes.

What and How are you going to change the way you run your business to eliminate fiascos like T:V in the future?

Now listen carefully, I personally am over T:V I realize it is probably acting as a money sink and that’s why you canceled the patch. I, unlike many others realize that you are a business who needs to make money. So lets face it you screwed up big time with T:V because now you have a huge load of bad PR, you made very little if any money and the customers are still not happy. So what are you going to do in the future to avoid releasing another flop?

Why do you owe me these answers? Well truthfully you don’t, you could blow me off and ignore my questions and hope I go away. But if it is true that you do read these messages, and if its true that you want to have an open dialog, then I offer it to you. I gave you two choices, to pack up and leave, or to lay out your future plan to avoid problems in the future. If you don’t want to lay your plan out, that’s fine as well just say you have one, and what the plan addresses. I look forward to hearing from a representative soon.