EA will never release a patch for Team Fortress 2, its up to Valve

Bale Fire | June 21, 2008 | Screenshots | Playstation 3 Company

As most of you probably know a petition for the PS3 version of The Oranage Box has been doing its rounds, asking for EA to release a patch fixing the large amount of bugs and glitches in the bundle. However a EA employee John D has said that EA will never release a patch since they did not engineer the game and its Valve's responsibility to fix the problems. So it appears the whole petition has been for nothing.

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1 thumbs!
Team Xtreme | June 21, 2008

Good job EA, put your name on a game for a quick buck and then turn your back on it. Now let me try and figure out why people dislike your company...
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  Slumpy monkey | June 21, 2008
  
  Valve aproached EA about it because Valve hate the PS3, Which means they will never make a patch for it.
  
  So no patch.
2 thumbs!
RabidChinaGirl | June 22, 2008

I was pretty surprised when I heard The Orange Box would be released on the PS3. I mean, I love Valve and their work, but if you're going to port a game, don't half-ass the job, it's really unfair to the players.

Of course, this is just adding to EA's already spotless track record... *cough*
3 thumbs!
Donnelly | June 22, 2008

That's a real shame.

Team Fortress 2 is one of the best online games ever made. It's ridiculously easy to get into and always fun this is inspite the fact it lacks variety (on paper).
- 3 thumbs!
  Storm | June 22, 2008
  
  Too true. It's not graphically demanding on the PC, either, looks great but doesn't require the cards you'd need to work Crysis and such. Perhaps the best, well-balanced class system to date, imo.
2 thumbs!
Donnelly | June 22, 2008

Valve are gods.

Blame EA.
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  Final Blade | June 23, 2008
  
  _{I wouldn't go that far don. Their reasons for hating the PS3 is ridiculous and stupid. And EA has done a shitty ass job porting the Orange box which was, according to some, one of the best titles.
  
  If they are gods as you say, than I would have expected better from them and Valve making the port to the PS3 rather than EA. And since they told them its never going to happen, the PS3 owners are stuck with a shitty quality game.}
  - 2 thumbs!
    Donnelly | June 23, 2008
    
    Personally I think I was holding back when I called them gods. They are without a doubt the best dev's out there by a wide margin.
    
    Go down and look at skatcats comment.
    
    Sony need Valve a LOT more than Valve need Sony.
3 thumbs!
skatcat31 | June 22, 2008

If you've ever had the misfortune ot work with a sony PS3 dev kit, let me tell you this, IT'S HORRIBLE!!! The coding interface is all in prop. code, with a little C,++ thrown in and Java for good measure. But it doesn't supposrt normal calls in those. No, they're prop. versions of them. And considering EA ported under valves asking, it really falls onto BOTH Valve and EA since htey both worked on the project, Valve creating the original code, and EA doing nothing more then moving it over to the PS3. In other words, it would take them both to get it too work since Valve hates the PS3 dev kit ( with good reason) and EA hates hte PS3 dev kit(with good reason).
1 thumbs!
pwned227 | June 22, 2008

Still that is pretty low of EA.
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  Slumpy monkey | June 22, 2008
  
  How is it?
  
  If someone goes "Hey take my laptop over to that table please" and you do, the table collapses and then you have to shell out for a new laptop, Your going to go "F off, Its your laptop you pay for it"
  - 2 thumbs!
    Seproth | June 23, 2008
    
    No
    
    Let's try this. They take the laptop over and take a massive shit on it and say "oh, well it's you that has to clean it up. It's your laptop."
    
    Why should Valve clean up EA's mistakes?
0 thumbs!
Supernouva | June 23, 2008

And EA wonders why Take Two refuses to agree to a multi million dollar merge.
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Agrias | June 23, 2008

EA is disappointing people a lot.

If they continue like this, they'll end up with nothing..

(yeah I know that's not gonna happen...thumb me down..lol)