But apparently this game wasn't rushed. Many times we heard the game will be shipped when it was ready and would be more polished than today's AAA titles.

I don't have the feeling the game was rushed, but the public testing started too late. I think they needed a solid full month of beta testing and then another full month to fix all the bugs and glitches. The game still plays solid and mostly smooth, but there are some game breaking bugs for other people. I, personally, have not run into any sort of issues other than the somewhat poor optimization, but I'm still getting about 35FPS avg on high settings so that's not really a complaint.

I can say that I will play probably 3x more hours of BF3 than RO2, but that's because I'm not always up for the uber realistic stuff. Most of the time I just wanna get into a more forgiving environment with the strategy still intact. Who knows? Maybe I'll end up playing a lot of the Rising Storm and Warhammer 40k mods when they come out. I can still see myself sinking in 200+ hours of RO2 over the next 2 years, though.

There's nothing wrong with RO2. Bugs are bugs. It seems to run decent on my rig, idk. Sometimes it wigs out, but every single blank game ever released has bugs. BF3 will have a huge crapload of them, guaranteed. Who cares? They get fixed.

As far as RO2 dying? Hahaha, bet that doesn't happen. What a joke! It'll be played for a long, long, long time to come. My clan is a prime example. They bitched and bitched about it. But they are so hopelessly addicted that they couldn't give it up if they wanted to. Some of the guys are telling me they have dreams at night about RO2 strategy. Geez, quit trolling already and enjoy the fcking games that are out and coming out. Bitches!!! Rofl! After all, we all know the only game that truly sucks is COD! It sucks so bad, it could suck start a Harley!

lol i had a nightmare about RO2 i was a sniper and my name was jude law..... scary stuff

Well to be honest some will disagree about there being nothing wrong with RO2.

I do agree with you that pretty much all games will have bugs but that's not the point I was making. After all the "trolling" on each thread relating to other games, be it BF3, MW3 or even Brink , RO2 has shown that it is not any better at release. The game still has it's issues in areas of optimisation, lag, broken UI etc. If I were to say about a month ago that RO2 will have all those things on release I would have been shot down immediately not just in this forum but others as well. You couldn't post anything about other games without it being followed by RO2 post explaining how superior it would be when released. It's strange because these people are awful quiet and I haven't seen much gloating.

I have no doubt that TW will iron out the issues long term and that is apparent after about 3 or 4 patches being released since last week. I hope everyone has learned a lesson from this.

Wonder if you are talking about me. Here's why I haven't been around much, I'm having a blast playing the game, maybe you should too instead of mentioning the same thing over and over again over your last dozen of posts, that's trolling mate. After all, running out of money can force companies to do silly things, like releasing the game in a terrible condition just so they can keep providing for themselves and their families. Guess there is a lesson to be learned indeed, that indies don't have infinite financial backing I guess and that can reflect badly and terribly on the state of a game release. Or that you should enjoy the game instead of mentioning the same thing over and over again in your posts or making conclusions about the state of a game based on your own misgivings instead of finding out exactly why it was released the way it was. We get it, it was a lousy release, shame you never stopped to ask why exactly that happened.

Me, I'm having a blast. It was a lousy release but running out of money what would you do? It ain't so easy to respond now, is it? Me, despite all the bugs I haven't had this much fun in a MP game in years. And it will only get better from here.

Myself, I promoted it in forums and with my clan as being superior in that it was 100% PC, with the old school PC features. I don't think it has failed in that. Tripwire will deliver on what it is missing, no doubt about it. As far as people ripping on it just for the sake of ripping on it, it's ridiculous. TWI is a good, homegrown, small dev that wants to break into the big leagues. I believe they will succeed. I wish them well.

I honestly, over this weekend alone, have become such a fan of this game, that despite what I said in a previous post about hating the "territory" mode, I am actually starting to like that mode. I actually can't get enough of this interesting game. If people would look past the typical teething pains that every piece of software goes thru, and actually try and master this game, they would see that unlocks mean nothing. The only thing that seems to become an obsession is getting better. It makes you want to master it. Anyway, I said my bit about it. For those that want to get hardcore into this game, I'll see you in Stalingrad. Next Stop: Rising Storm (Lol, ZOMG I CAN'T WAIT!)

Edit: Well said Kucd!

+1 Well put.

Judging by these posts, they missed your point entirely. It's safe to say these kind of people will never learn.

Good lord. And what are we supposed to have learned, oh great and mighty TRTL? Enlighten us thou wise and wonderful bringer of light. I have no regrets.

Not talking about you but more about people in general who were trolling threads everywhere. It was difficult to post anything about a game one likes without it being hijacked with "RO2 will be this and that". So I apologise if I am now the one trolling but I have to read the same trolling posts about RO2 for the past year now on different forums.

I can pretty much guess why it was released they way it was or is. As you have pointed out it is more than likely that they were running out of money, and most likely time. I am not going to bash them for that as other studios suffer from the same things. All development studios have budgets whether they are independent or are backed by big publishing houses such as Activision or EA. Non-independent or large studios do have bigger budgets, that is a given, but they are not infinite and they too have deadlines to make as well.

I like RO2. Played it more than BC2 since it's release if I am honest and I play BC2 a lot. Will I say I love RO2, no I won't go that far, well maybe love for the rifles , but it is definitely a break from modern FPS shooters. I won't say any more on this unless I have to, but I do hope that people take on board studios suffer from pretty much the same pitfalls; money, constant demand, resources and not enough time in the day. That is the lesson that should be learned