Anyone Upgrading to V3

As I have said before, I am of the opinion that BF is an arrogant company. As much as I love the game, & I will upgrade whenever possible, but that fact does not negate my discomfort with their attitude to those who pay for their product and have made their company the success that it is. I truly fear the day that they place that last straw upon the back of their customers.
 
I hear you Facman. I especially like when the clouds part and the BF poster shows up to strike fear amongst all its loyal patrons. Always entertaining. This guy hit a pretty good nerve over there. http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=116837
He got a reaction from the full force: Phil the programmer, BF the almighty, Moon man, and pretty much all the fanboi's.

I in no way support the posters views or comments. Just to save us all from the Po' leece showing up. ;)
 
eniced73 said:
Apologies to Fizou and anyone else that I caused an inconvenience to by posted such a lengthy quote. In Fizou's defense my TapaTalk was crawling on my Galaxy when I was trying to get to the bottom of the thread.
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Thanks for the edit!

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I apologize for derailing your thread @Richtig but I will not get called out without a response.
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Seconded. Wont post more after this one. I think its good that the posibility excists so that games can be finished even when upgrading, or waiting for your regular mates to upgrade, or if they dont want to but you do etc.
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Fizou - I understand and appreciate your loyalty and connection with BattleFront. But at the same time, I loathe reading your posts pertaining to this issue (nothing personal). I had to check the address bar multiple times in order to ensure myself that I somehow did not accidentally migrate myself over to that 'other' forum. I thought I put up a pretty good post #19 here: http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgm...bn-features-copied-from-chrisnd-twitch.20564/ explaining how this bitching or whining thing that you are so upset about works. You have already claimed several times in this and another thread that a select few of us keep moaning and groaning about not receiving a "FREE" upgrade. Not sure where you are getting that from as I read through the forums multiple times and have not seen one post asking for that. I have seen posts, including my own, that state it was a little light on content but in no way did I take that to mean we want something for FREE. Must be a language thingy? Due to this, I wholly understand your reactions to misinterpreting or misunderstanding what has been posted. I mean telling people that they have little understanding of things or they need to "grasp" the concept or offering to buy them the upgrade (insinuating that they are too cheap) could rub them the wrong way. I personally am good and can easily take a jab or two with no problem. We pay for the game and have the right to discuss what we pay for. You also pay for the game and have the right to discuss. I think we can keep it reasonable on the "bitching and moaning" if you can keep it reasonable on the Pro-BF defense. So all is good. Keep it light.
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Well, the BF forum can definately be to much at times. Maybe Im only a fanboi "light". And it might very well be a language barrier that has drawn this out, or I might be stupid ;) . But if someone calls the upgrade a patch, I read into that as a wanting it as a patch, hence for free. But I do agree with Rambler and others pointing out that parts of what is in the upgrade is patch items. I believe and hope that these will be included in the next 2.0 patch for BN (1.0 for FI - Man they should really do something about the versions numbers - but no idea if that is hard or not).
It was not my intention to offend you by offering the upgrades, I want people to enjoy them as I do (but I understand what you are saying so appologies).
I do believe we can keep this civilized both as "moaners" and "Fanboi police".

Facman said:
As I have said before, I am of the opinion that BF is an arrogant company. As much as I love the game, & I will upgrade whenever possible, but that fact does not negate my discomfort with their attitude to those who pay for their product and have made their company the success that it is. I truly fear the day that they place that last straw upon the back of their customers.
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At times they come of as arrogant to me too, but more oftan than not they dont. There is just now way they can keep everyone happy and dealing with compaliants that are on repeat will probably have anyone come of as arrogant at times.

eniced73 said:
I hear you Facman. I especially like when the clouds part and the BF poster shows up to strike fear amongst all its loyal patrons. Always entertaining. This guy hit a pretty good nerve over there. http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=116837
He got a reaction from the full force: Phil the programmer, BF the almighty, Moon man, and pretty much all the fanboi's.
I in no way support the posters views or comments. Just to save us all from the Po' leece showing up. ;)
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Anything you say can and will be used against you in the BF court of law you know. Seriously though, I read through that thread. I dont think they acted out of line (not the "moaners", "fanbois" or BF).

Now I promised I wouldent post more in this thread as a derailer so I wont. I will keep the po' leeceing to the upgrade threads :p
 
mTk said:
I seem to be having difficulties getting 3.0 to install into my CMBN game. It insists on going into CMFI, ignoring my CMBN efforts. Clearly I'm clueless.
A little assist here?
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As a Mac user, I haven't got my upgrades yet ... and when they are out, my install process would be different to yours anyway, following Mac protocols. But ... the one blindingly obvious thing that occurred to me was, are you sure that you did actually buy and download (or that BF did actually supply you with) the CMBN upgrade, and not (somehow ...) the CMFI one ...?? What is the upgrade download file called?

Sorry, I know that is a "Doh ..." suggestion, but ...:)

If the upgrade goes into CMFI, does it actually work there? (See above ...)

Is your install location the default one? If you have amended it, does the install process let you specify where it is?

All basic questions which you have doubtless considered ... sorry nothing smarter occurred to me!
 
Facman said:
As I have said before, I am of the opinion that BF is an arrogant company. As much as I love the game, & I will upgrade whenever possible, but that fact does not negate my discomfort with their attitude to those who pay for their product and have made their company the success that it is. I truly fear the day that they place that last straw upon the back of their customers.
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Hhmm...they treat me well. How is it you feel they are arrogant?
 
How is it you feel they are arrogant?
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I am of the opinion that they do not readily respond to their customers concerns, as expressed in their own forums, and have consistently released their products with not inconsiderable flaws.
 
I haven't tried to DL the 3.0 into CMFI because I have an ongoing game. When I get my next game file I will. I thought the one 3.0 file upgraded CMFI AND CMBN. No?

Doh! Just checked, nope, need the CMBN 3.0 as well. Boy, I hate to admit how brain-dead I can be sometimes. :oops:

(Normally I'd try to blame Ted, but he's so bloody far away. Wait! I got it. It was Rico's fault. He's usually so busy w/work he'll not even notice. :p)
 
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Glad you got it sorted! And yes, the version numbers are confusing ... As the latest iteration is almost universally known as "V 3.0", I don't see how it would have hurt BF to "badge" the title screen accordingly (rather than show it as their internal software version number) and make it clear(er) what we are getting ...
 
I don't see how it would have hurt BF to "badge" the title screen accordingly (rather than show it as their internal software version number) and make it clear(er) what we are getting ...
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As we used to say in 'The Nam'..."Just another reason why."
 
All of us Mac users seen this on BF's site?

3.0 Engine Upgrades for the Mac!
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - News
Monday, 22 September 2014
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Finally, the 3.0 Mac OS X Engine Upgrades for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy and Combat Mission Fortress Italy are here!

The Upgrades convert and upgrade your existing games (and any installed modules) automagically to include most of the advanced new CMx2 v3.00 game features!

* Upgrades must be purchased separately for each title.

[ Buy the CMBN v3.0 Mac OSX Upgrade now! ]

[ Buy the CMFI v3.0 Mac OSX Upgrade now! ]
 
PhilM said:
Glad you got it sorted! And yes, the version numbers are confusing ... As the latest iteration is almost universally known as "V 3.0", I don't see how it would have hurt BF to "badge" the title screen accordingly (rather than show it as their internal software version number) and make it clear(er) what we are getting ...
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I feel the same thing, working as IT tech, I found misleading to say "'v 3.0" and then showing 2.20 or somewhat.
In fact the major number relate to a new release with big improvements, it isn't a patch nor and upgrade, it's a new product with significant changes.
Some you discuss about the patch/upgrade question, I'm the opinion that both of you are not far from the truth. They sign their software with the correct number (because you can't call it as a new release) but naming it "v 3.0" seems more market appealing.

from wikipedia

"Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given version number category (major, minor), these numbers are generally assigned in increasing order and correspond to new developments in the software.
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In principle, in subsequent releases, the major number is increased when there are significant jumps in functionality such as changing the framework which could cause incompatibility with interfacing systems, the minor number is incremented when only minor features or significant fixes have been added, and the revision number is incremented when minor bugs are fixed.
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