These online failures are just getting more and more recent these days..
Please get your shit together before the game launches devs.

Sounds like the launch of castle crashers. Hopefully it won't take nearly as long to fix the problems.

Can't remember a recent game launch that hasn't been plagued with on-line bugs.

I know it's hard to truly gauge how many people will be on your servers but seriously guys... you should at least try!

What are the developers actually doing with beta tests? None of the issues in Beta were addressed. Why bother delaying the game in the first place if you didn't fix anything?

/Castle Crashers v2.0

Why is online so difficult for bloody cartoon games? Why can't hyper violent cartoon death battle games be more stable to create?

I'm enjoying this game but it needs some serious Valve-level tweaking. Just about everything needs some polish including balance, targeting, AI, menu systems - everything. I'm still having fun but when your worker can't target a structure to fix or destroy it (or, when targeted, can't get your guy to do anything), there are problems.

Also, based on the rounds I've been playing, something needs to be done to keep 90% of the games from ending in a stalemate on the capture-the-princess levels. Swapping control over a few control points for 20 minutes can get pretty old.

@Pacopaco You do realize when you mention Valve "tweaking" to PS3 owners it means doing nothing. No patches, Valve products to PS3 are not updated or supported.

It was fun killing you this morning, Jim.

I've had troubles as well. I find if you go to "Find Game" and filter your search, then it tends to be more successful getting on. I haven't found the soccer style yet? That sounds awesome!

As far as bugs go. Does anyone else find it trickier then it should be to feed the princess cake?
Other than that, this game is awesome! It made me cancel my Blockbuster "Gamer Pass"

I'm amazed some of these bugs are still in the final release. Like the one where it freezes the menu items over the top of the screen when entering and exiting some of the menus. I'd say it was extremely sloppy, but they clearly knew about these problems and must have thought it didn't matter to leave them in.

Poor showing. But the game still basically works and is a blast to play.

@GameraTheGreat That was EA, they went out of there way to attempt to help PS3 players, however EA never received any of the other major patches to TF2 or any other part of the game. Realistically the patch was to make up for the lack of effort on Valves side. So no they never did.

Luckily, the only decent online game I've had with little or no lag was the Dtoid FNF! :)

The only way that works for me is searching for any game, any mode and it'll let me connect within 1 or 2 tries.

Trying anything else - including joining a friend's game or altering search options and I'm treated to an endless loop of "connect to host" timeouts and mashing X to try again.

@Pacopaco
And I'd love for Valve's "polished" touch to stay far, far away from this game.

How come I'm not surprised? Seems like Sony needs to tighten up their approval process. Too many online games are absolutely borked at launch.

Good to see all my time in the beta spent complaining about the online payed off.

I thought the game was great, until I realized that the single player would be over in 1.5 hours and that I couldn't connect to an online game for the life of me.

I've got a recent "gamer-convert" friend, who is using current gen for the first time since sticking to his nintendo roots, I've had to explain, and it's a shame i had to, that...

"Yeah a lot of online games usually take a few days to get their online up and running, it'll be working soon"

I should not have to say that! They knew full well how many people wanted to play this fat bitch, be prepared mother fuckers?!

I've got an idea, why don't you let us download it, say a week before "actual launch" let us play the training or something, then on launch day, you'll know how many people have it DL'd and how many you need to accomodate on the servers when you flick the switch.

Rather than the current idea of, "Flick the switch, fuck! it doesn't work, make all those people who paid money for the game wait a week or so while we sort it out."

Saying that, the games i've gotten into (persistent bastard me) have been fucking BRILLIANT! its a fucking awesome game and as soon as the online issues are sorted i'm gonna sink some serious hours in.

If most of the problems were prevalant in the beta, why do a beta anyway, if you are not going to fix the problems..

I've been torn whether to throw my tenner at this or the Killzone map bundle. As much as i've been anticipating this game's release, i'm kinda glad the bug made the desicion easy, for me at least.

i'm glad a patch is on the way, but i'm getting really sick of having to wait for a patch or some other fix until games function like they should. Battlefield 1943, KOF XII, Fat Princess… just some recent examples. i freely admit my ignorance of the technical side of online gaming, i just wish i could buy a game on day 1 that works like it's supposed to.

Meh, I played this game single-player for about 3 hours the other night. It was entertaining for a while but has absolutely no depth and every round is the same.
Multiplayer might be fun for a while but I doubt it since there is no room for using actual tactics with 16 people per team, and every class seems to be about as powerful as every other.
I gotta say, I was disappointed.

@pacopaco

I agree with you. Valve responds to their community like no other, but there will always be a vocal minority of ass-tards that can't stand change.