I can understand why a language pack wouldn't be at the top of the priority list when the game is available, off the shelf, in English.
But it isn't necessarily, quite depends on where you live. In some countries there's no way to get your hands on the English version. If everybody could just buy the English version, why make a language pack at all? And quite frankly, I don't really give a damn what their priorities are. That may seem ignorant or arrogant or even a combination of the two, but seriously, when you buy something and it doesn't work as intended, are you going to care what other priorities (than solving your issue) the company has who produced said item? I highly doubt it.
I realize you bought the game in German to "save a few bucks" but in retrospect, maybe you should have just bought it in English to begin with if the German is too big an issue for you.
Now, if the game had NOT been released in English at all, I could understand the complaint about lack of a language pack.....but since the game is readily available in English I think its a redundant point.
I'm sorry you feel like you were promised something and Lionhead didn't deliver...but its a game development company...this industry rarely releases everything promised on time. Schedules change and things get pushed back. Its frustrating, but a fact of life.
Yeah, I should have in retrospect, but I didn't. Yeah, I made the same mistake I've made before in trusting a Dev and got burnt. In essence you are right, but that still doesn't make it okay. Also, I didn't only buy the game in german to "save a few bucks", it just so happens that I live in Switzerland where people speak German so you usually only get them in that language. I could have ordered from Amazon, but it would have taken about a week to arrive and costs a little more. So, since Lionhead said they'd release the language pack alongside the game, I did the obvious. If that doesn't make any sense, then I don't know what does.
As I said above, it all depends on where you live. The game isn't readily available in English per se. But you're right, it's a fact of life that these things happen, especially in the gaming industry, but that doesn't mean I've got to agree with it or can't complain about it. For better or worse, I can go to a public forum and complain about this issue and discuss it with others, I thought that's what a forum is for, but I, and all the other boards I frequent, are obviously mistaken.
Also, with the laundry list of other bugs/issues on the table, you wouldn't enjoy playing your game right now anyway. Consider yourself lucky that by the time you get your Language Pack and can FINALLY play your game, a patch should have been released to fix the more pressing issues at hand.
Good point and you're probably right about that too, but again, I'll worry about those issue once I experience them for myself and come back to complain some more. For one it's totally not acceptable for Lionhead to release a game as buggy as this and secondly, it's totally unacceptable being lied to, no matter how common that has become.
@ OP - I can understand your frustration. I'd be pretty disappointed too. Faedil has some good points. Every cloud......
Yup, unlike yourself Faedil has some good points. Every cloud what?
I do have an inkling however, that the store you bought the game from had to endure the same attitude this forum has, maybe they wouldn't take it back because of it.....god, has fable taught you nothing (probably not as it's in German lol).....consequence! :lol:
What attitude? Please point it out to me, cause I can't find any evidence of an attitude anyhwere, except maybe my attitude towards Lionhead and their bugged video game. Sure, I defend my point of view, but unlike others I've refrained from name calling and such like. Unlike you, I don't go around making wild assertions.
It's not much of a surprise that you act the way you do when you let Fable teach you things about real life.
@ the forum, mods, etc.
Please, if you decide to bann someone, at least have the courtesy to supply a shred of a reason as to why you decided to do so. I've reread the entire forum rules and for the life of me can't find a reason as to why I would have been banned. What was it that I did? Bumping this thread twice, the one time being within 24 hours? Really? Go **** yourselves and your stupid forum, seriously, if it's too much for you to handle a different opinion, you shouldn't have a forum. get a blog instead.
so long and feel free to bann this profile too.
Quite frankly I don't care who is responsible for this, fact is I have a game here from Lionhead which I only bought because they promised said language pack to be available when it came out. It's not. So, who am I going to blame for this mishap? I think it's quite logical which tree is going to have to take the ****.
