The recent port of Rockstar's private school romp Bully has earned considerable ire from 360 owners, beginning with a NeoGAF forum post and only heating up from there. Complaints include poor framerate, freezing and glitches in the audio, which caused Rockstar president and co-founder Sam Houser to speak out to frustrated consumers about the issue. Here is his statement:
"We have just become aware of the issues people are having with Bully: Scholarship Edition on Xbox 360. It appears that some older 360s are experiencing framerate issues, freezes and other problems," he wrote. "You have our word that we never experienced any of this in QA - in any of our offices or at Microsoft. I am horrified, and we are now working around the clock to rectify this situation. Thanks to NeoGAF for bringing this matter to our attention...We love our games and put a huge amount of energy and care into making them all that they can be," he continued. "We would never shove anything out the door - we never have and never will. We apologize to everyone affected for the inconvenience."
The internet isn't much on understanding or patience, so I don't expect this will quell the bitching too much, but at least more reasonable 360 owners will be sated by the fact that Rockstar is taking action. The statement definitely insinuates that older 360s are a part of the issue, which may be true, but is obviously no excuse for a buggy port. What do you think is at fault -- the older 360 models, or the game itself?
[Via The Escapist - thanks, Jonathan]
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12:47 PM on 03.06.2008
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We sorta forgave them for their troubles because it seems as though they were trying to fix things (with the console's issues, in general). But, did they perhaps go ahead and make things even worse? Time will tell if this happens more often or if this is an isolated incident, but I fear for the worst.
hopefully by the time they patch this my attention will be directed elsewhere and I wont have to pick up Bully just because nothing else came out that week.
(yes I know army of 2 came out this week as well, but come on. Army of 2?)
I have actually suspected for a while that different 360's treat the same games slightly differently... Test Drive Unlimited for example allows you to drive off of the pop-up if you have an old crusty DVD drive... altho in that case, the user which experienced that is a heavy smoker.
I'm still working with my launch day 360, which is nearing 2 and 1/2 years old- part of me wishes it would just die already so I can get a newer model while it's still in warranty.
WHAT ABOUT THE 360 ITSELF!?!?! LIARS!
Chill out. Also, what Samit said.
Well, some of them.
Unless of course it turns out that the older 360's experiencing the issues are, in fact, on deaths door lol.
When processor cores are re-synthesized, such as during a die shrink, timing issues can arise. This is usually only a problem if the game developers are doing silly things with the hardware. If they code and test for only the newer cores, there might be problems. Similar issues occurred with the PS2 slim. The only way to get perfect compatibility is to follow all the programming guidelines and not depend on specific timing, especially concerning the disc drive.
My guess is that Microsoft and Rockstar are both at fault in their own ways. It happens. What really matters is how, and how quickly, they fix it, and if they learn anything from this.
I just had Bully lock up on me after about an hour. I'm glad Rockstar is at least looking into fixing the problem. Ubisoft denied that the lockups with GRAW2 were their fault (there were hundreds of people who had the same problem on their forums) and even a year later I've never been able to play the game. People would tell me it was a sign my 360 was about to crap out, but again, it's a year later and I've played a couple dozen games since then (including probably 100 hours of COD4) with no problem.
Right that the old machines thing seems suspect but it looks to be that they are working hard to fix the problem. Do Rockstar have a history of poor bug testing?
I was looking forward to finally trying this game out; I suppose I'll wait for a patch now though.
Hot damn the cook in the canteen is sexy...
"The issue is with older models of the Xbox 360... so buy a new one."
Is this a game the Wii runs better than the 360 then? XD.
Has anyone ever played Manhunt 2? Just what are their quality standards?
Some framerate issues here and there but nothing that kills the game, guess I finally got lucky for once.
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