Petition against EA's Team Fortress 2 online

Team Fortress 2, which was included in the Orange Box, was released last year. It already had its fair share of problems on the day of release, however it seems that the game still has a lot of online issues. Yesterday an angry gamer apparently couldn't take it anymore and started a petition regarding the problems.

The issues that are listed in the petition (which are quite a lot) are of the PS3 version. Which, ofcourse, comes as no surprise, seeing as how EA constantly keeps complaining about working with the next-generation console of Sony.

[Yi-Long]

... they're probably the biggest and richest software-only company (game-wise), yet they apparently cant manage to hire capable programmers to get a proper release out of the door...

They keep throwing unfinished crap onto the market, instead of first making sure it all works and works properly.... and yet they still charge full-price for their hurried releases...

[BlazeXXL]

I find it horrible that this company can get away with these kind of things. I mean, just look at the list, that's not a game, that's a f*cking joke..

EA, you will never get my money.

[marichuu]

"yet they apparently cant manage to hire capable programmers"
Well... nobody wants to work for them to begin with :P
The other thing being that they want all the money for themselves. Remember the "Cartman land" episode of South Park? Well... EA = Cartman

[00]

blame the stupid people that keep buying their crap.

[Mr_Showtime1]

EA have gotten to a stage where they have realised, we can reproduce the same crap every year and invest little money and time into games, but still make a crap load of moeny, cause people keep buyig it

[Gia Secando]

Title after title EA releases is just horrible but this is outrageous.I can't play in a game without getting either kicked or losing connection.I even heard VICTORY at Uber volume one time in the menu...Valve...EA...Why...just why...

[jackdoe]

I don't understand how a petition would help. The minute you bought the game, EA stopped giving a sh!t about you since they already had your money. I haven't bought an EA game since MoH Frontlines(a decision I regretted immensely) and will not buy another in the forseeable future.

[cp68]

I agree, but why not try?
Is there anything to lose?
No. It's the opposite actually.

[Condoleezza Rice]

I've experienced nothing but Lag,drop-outs,and ridiculous glitches ever since buying this game.The problem is,Valve did a piss poor job on the Online coding of this game,I'd say a good 75% of the time,the game is buggy and absolutely unplayable.

Don't get me started on the balancing issues lol,'cause I can write an entire page worth of this.All I'll say is,the latest update made the Medic class too damn powerful,fix it Valve :)

[jadenkorri]

i know ea did the programming fro PS3, cause valve didn't want to program for PS3/or didn't know the code...one or the other they didn't want to do it....PC version is flawless...360 version i thought they did cause its similar to PC, so its weird that the 360 is having problems also...maybe ea did the programming for both and that would explain everything..

[TheIneffableBob]

Valve did the 360 version themselves, although they didn't go all out on porting it. According to them, they ported the PC code to the 360 platform then reworked some code to make it work. And Valve, as you all know, let EA handle the PS3 version. If you want a flawless Team Fortress 2 experience, you'll have to play it on the PC. Valve are PC developers, and that is the platform they specialize in. The console versions were made for the money.

[dexterwang]

that is very very sad... I have the game for PC and it works flawlessly... how EA manage to screw up such a great game for PS3 is a disgrace

Almost seem like they're doing it on purpose. I mean how the heck can you screw up so many games so badly for the ps3 unless you have the budget of 10$ and a mind of a 5 years old... oh wait its EA

[iamtehpwn]

because they ALWAYS get stuff done.

[TitanUp]

boycott petition against ea do everything ea sucks their stupid dlc prices its just ridiculous madden 08 30fps on ps3? what the hell every other big game turned out good on ps3.

[CyberSentinel]

Get an Xbox360.

With Warmest Regards, And Much Love...

EA.

[Max Power]

while it wasn't mentioned but i know people who have the 360 version, and they are having some of same problems.

How about EA fix the problem. i swear devs are getting lazier with the final product of the game because they can come out with a patch. i miss the days when i buy a game that it works the way it should without additional updates just to make it a release quality game.

[CyberSentinel]

Xbox360 owners got a patch weeks after it was released, and it's worked fine for me ever since. I haven't played it in awhile, but I'm sure its all good.

[andrewf91]

we stick to our console

[DomUltra]

I love how this idiot implies EA does great work, get a life.

[ElementX]

Sure, you all want to boycott EA but when they release a good game on PS3 you'll all love them again. Talk about double standards.

[dexterwang]

um people don't hate EA just for fun... we hate them because they DON'T release good games! Once they start continually releasing good games for PS3 then what's to hate??

Its not double standards, its just the desire to play games that were made to their full potential by one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. Shouldn't be too much to ask for... but it is

[EastCoastSB]

Hell will freeze over before that happens.

We're just lucky Criterion is still a good dev.

[cp68]

We want to have what we pay for.
It's not that hard to understand.

[Rob4Vendetta]

did my part...I dont care if they read it or not...I just want them to know we're pissed

[avacadosnorkel]

it's MS. Strategy to hurt the competition by offering obscene amounts of cash for a favor to deliver a not-so-hot version to the competitor. It all began at Madden. But weeks later FIFA comes out at 60fps. USA is Madden and 360 territory. FIFA is Europe and PS3 land. Put it together. Some EA games run fine on PS3.

Oh, if you didn't know the guy who owns the company that put out Fortress 2 used to work for Microsoft before he left and started Valve. Don't ever expect a good running game on PS3 from them.

[Adamalicious]

I played through all of the Orange Box except TF2 on a 360 copy I borrowed from a friend - having read this I'm glad I didn't buy the PS3 version to play TF2.

[Ri0tSquad]

But I'll sign it because I could imagine what there going through.

[DJ]

As I played through the orange box, I kept getting the feeling that EA got absolutely no help from Valve and very little time to port the 5 titles.

[Jim Crowslaw]

can we make a petition for marvel and capcom to stop being so arrogant and make a marvel vs capcom 3? freakin please. PLEASE?!?!?!?!?!?! BEFORE I DIE!!!

[DethWish]

WTF?! Never thought it could be THAT bad..

[Ali_The_Brit]

most games on the PS3 (online) work and run fine but theres some issues apperntly with this game..not suprised EA suck especaily there servers, iv never had problems but i havnt played much of TF2

[MaximusPrime]

Petition related news should never be allowed on N4G. It is spam.

[cp68]

Unacceptable from EA. HOping this petition will have a certain impact

[ReBurn]

Online petitions are so lame.

[cp68]

Why not try? Even if it's EA..

[TheJBag]

on the ps3 was terrible..
so many times i encounter glitches and errors.

oh well the only thing that matters is i get to play one of the best fps series of all time.