Great I havn't played NGII in 2 days and now I find out I can't play NGII online at all for the next however long? XBOX LIVE CERT. TEAM give each game update-patch at least 1 full playthrough, connected to xbox live and at least one pc, just to make sure you don't brick any more consoles... This is amazingly bad... the cert team that handled this game should, without a doubt, be fired, yes even the management running that team... they should be out and gone, because, to use a cooking example, this is the digital equivalent of serving someone a porkchop that was only cooked to half temp. it's just unacceptable, mistakes are ok, a little dust ocasionally is ok, but obviously not playing through a patch far enough to figure out that the first achievement is boned is rediculous, and not noticing the freezing issues is equally not cool. I wish them the best of careers doing... well, anything else non cert related. This team obviously does not have the ethics to accomplish anything more than rubber stamping. Increasingly more often, stupid people in the software industry(mannagement) think that automated testing can flatout replace playtests, what they don't realise is that while automated testing and debugging can take allot of the gruntwork out of the equasion, without realworld tests giant scary bugs can sneek through.
Just a fiew days ago I was telling a friend that Xbox 360 was the nicer choice because of Microsofts cirtification process, and because it seems that the 360 even given all it's early hardware troubles, is the more stable architecture, this NGII MM fiasco is making me look not so educated right now, lets hope you figure this poop out before he finds himself cursing me.
