Act of War: High Treason mini image needed

[Venturai]

I was hoping they'd have a fix out by the end of the day (their time), but it's a bit rude to just close that thread and not let us know what's going on. Being that today's a public holiday for us, it would have been real nice to have woken up, downloaded the fix, then spent the day playing.

The least he could do would be to get us a version without the copy protection if we sent him our legit cd keys. They messed up pretty big with this one, and I reckon if they gave half a damn about their customers they should be willing to do whatever it takes to fix the problem.

If there's still no fix out by next weekend, I'll be pissed, because I go back to Tafe next week (after the Easter break), and I'll have no time to play by then.

[Joe Forster/STA]

I guess the conclusion is: don't rush into the shop to buy a game that was released N hours/days ago (where N is a small number). Rather, wait for a few weeks, to have the copy protection-related and other fuckups fixed by an official patch...

[Venturai]

Here in Australia Joe, we're always waiting. We tend to wait longer than everyone else to get our hands on the same game. High Treason was delayed a good 3 weeks over here. We got it at least half a month after it came out in Europe, if not longer.

That's what makes it so frustrating, our game comes out that much later and yet it's still broken, and they're like "oh yeah, sorry, we've ordered one and are waiting for it to arrive". They certainly didn't think about testing it before it's release, and they wouldn't have even known had we not told them.

[Grumpy]

We tend to only get the BIG release games at the same time as the rest of the world, like Halflife 2 and Doom 3.
Obviously High Treason is not classed as one of those big games!

[Venturai]

Honestly, this is so frustrating.

Over at gamecopyworld they post nocd cracks for the most obscure games. Funk-Flitzer Deluxe German, wtf? Disney's Aladdin Chess Adventure, eh?

But Atari messes up on the patch1 for Act of War, so that legitimate users in Australia and Asia can't even play with their original cds, and nobody thinks to create a nocd for that? Maybe I need to go play a little Skat Meister 3D, because at least I can fire that baby up without the cd in the drive.

Oh, and don't even think about replying with a "do it yourself" post, because believe me, I've tried.

[BStard]

@Venturai
I guess what we're after is someone with the Euro version to make a MI (well a maxi image) of HT and then post it to see if the Euro one will work the Asia/Oceania version. Given that different CP's are used (at least I think so) this may be impossible but it would be interesting to see if it works.........
Until then we wait for Atari to fix the problem they created. Most likely won't be posting anymore on Atari forums as each thread gets closed when you make legimate questions......... or point out contradictions.

[Venturai]

At this rate BStard, by the time either Atari fix their fuckup or someone actually creates a nocd for it, we're going to be the only two in Australia who haven't returned our copies.

It's amazing that they are so cavalier about it, because that stickied thread of their is filling up with posts from those who have returned their game because of this. They are losing money, but they don't seem to really care all that much.