Konami Offers Exchanges on 360 Silent Hill HD Collection

[Reaper195]

So....wait, only in South and North america? What about the rest of the world that bought it?

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I don't get it... how did this happen? The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection was excellent! How did Silent Hill's turn out so bad? It's great that they're offering exchanges, but since it's faulty merchandise that they themselves don't want to fix, they really should just give a refund. That'd certainly be better for public relations.

Captcha: Talk the talk

But remember Captcha, you also gotta walk the walk!

 

[antman890]

These bastards should be fined to hell for bullshit like this. I absolutely hate how the software industries get special treatment by the law. Makes me sick.

i hear you. its all because of intelectual property laws. i don't think that it will change in the next 30 years. i used to think that it customers of products with strong intelectual property ties (i.e. gamers, music lovers, etc.) tried to petion for a change in favour of customers, something postive might happen but now i think their just gonna keep going until the act of looking at a game means the company owns your soul. lol

There's still hope. When our generation gets in governing positions, there will finally be people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about in a position to fix things. The retards today are all like "wuts firefox? Is it like irnternets xploder? People us it to steal shit?! OH NO! THEFT IS WRONG! GOTTA BAN EVERYTHIGN!"

As evidences by all the SOPA/CISPA/ACTA/whatever the latest version is named-circus.

true that once technology fluent generations come into power there will be more ability to stop this silliness but what would stop influential companies from fighting tooth and nail to protect "their" intelectual rights? they've got the money to hire hoards of lawyers to defend their rights as money hungry useless middle men and their right to control everything even though they have created nothing (execpt a confusing and dodgey system of keeping everything for themselves).

Of course they will fight and lobby and do all the things they're already doing. But SOPA/CISPA/ACTA/HERPDERPA all got voted down once people heard about them. If those people are the ones who get to vote about it in the first place, well, chances are they're gonna have the same opinion they had back when all they did was hear about it. You know what I mean? We'll see what happens, but there's a serious issue today with the punishment for certain things not fitting the crime and people are not happy about it. Look at how they fine pirates and whatever. Millions of dollars. Nobody in their right mind things that's reasonable on any planet, and it's shit like that which is creating a divide between the rule of the law and the rule of personal morals. The longer it stays like that, the more the law is actually being undermined and hollowed out in the eyes of people. Can't keep going like that.

i hope your right on this. i think for something like pirating they should just ban the person from using computers (unless their day job consists of it). when ex cons are on probation they aren't allowed to assosiate with felons, it closer to that model than anything else i can think of and i think its firly reasonable. not fine them into bankruptcy.

Dude, "banning people" from using computers is like banning people from using a phone or a sending mails. By your logic, someone who has once robbed or stolen a taxi can never use taxis. People steal shit in stores all day, every day, everywhere. Do they ban people from going to stores? Insane.

then what else can you suggest? its all well and good to say that the punishment should fit the crime but what punishment is fitting of piracy? imprinsonment? hands being choped off?

Are you confusing piracy, the act of copyright infringement by a private and civilian party, with rape, the act of forcibly having sex with another person against their will? It's a bunch of bits and bytes, it's not even theft. What do they do to kids who steal lipstick in a store? Slap on the hand, maybe a fine, or community service. And that's for THEFT! Why should piracy, something that's not even theft(neither legally nor practically), require harsher punishment? You sit here and talk about how things are bullshit, yet you're completely part of it yourself. I am disappoint.

nononono taking a product without purchasing it is theft, be it lipstick or game. in the case of lipstick the design of the property (or product) is owned by the person that designed it (or the middle men who have ripped the rights of the product from the designer)and as such they have every right to make a profit from something they created. its the same in the case of games. someone has gone through the effort to make a game and it is their right to have it protected (all though i think middle men like EA who abuse this should have their meat and veg ripped off) BUT as you said for physical products people get a slap on the wrist while they try to bend people over the table when it come to virtual content. What im wandering is what is an acceptable punishment that would fit. im sorry if i confused you with my extreme choices but honestly im not sure what punishment would fit this crime and was curious of your opinion. all i know is that fining the gold fillings out of someones mouth is too extreme but doing nothing is just as bad.

p.s i think that for rape having hands chopped off should only be the BEGINNING of the punishment. i think that by the end of the punishment for rape the felon should be just a tourso and a head. nothing else.

 

[antman890]

They should be offering full refunds. You release a product that doesn't work then you should be footing the bill.

my original point is that this type of business practice is bad, retarding and stupid and whoever came up with it is stupid, and therefore should be shot and their family should pay for the bullet. it might be business savy to save a few buck but its stupid to alienate ur customer base no matter what business ur in and thats exactly what they're doing.

understand????????????

I don't know about anyone else, but I was a little confused at first.
Luckily by the 10th question mark it sank it. Thanks.

lol sorry if it was confusing. yes they bloody well should be offering refunds but thats money out of their pocket. Hell will freeze over, every cancer will be curable and humanity will have explored the entire universe before they would ever let money come out of their pocket.

 

[lapan]

So wait, they'll go through with an exchange program... But won't take the time and resources to simply patch the damn thing?

What are you smoking, Konami?

It's partly Microsofts fault, they charge insane amounts of money for patches and DLC.

 

[Draxz]

I personally liked the old days compared to the new ones... Where you didn't have to update your game within the first half-hour of owning it and the campaign/ story-mode just worked. But now I feel like game producers are basically throwing they're cocks (games) out into the open to be bought, realize the cock is already fucked and can't get much out of until they fix it.

Maybe not that far... I will admit you don't really need patches or 'fixes'. I mean, if there was a patch that made BF3 playable, good, Russian Guns with recoil, I think everything would be peachy-keen. But sadly, no... I actually have yet to see patches that properly work.

I'm going to deviate off a little, as I talk about Multi-Player/ Co-Op. Now, I understand reasons to why those need patching or updates. For obvious reasons like: annoying fuckheads finding "Glitches" and "Oo', look, I'm somehow a God now and Zombies can't get me!" but that just ruins the whole 'FUN' part in the game. Why not just go online and buy a mode, that let's you run around in a world, full of inanimate enemies that only move when you shoot them? Well, I can tell you why: BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING STUPID--- Okay, I've gone off point.

But one thing I have thought of is: Konami have deadlines, yes? Do they keep to them? ... Can't tell. But what I feel like is, when they produce the HD of SH2/3, they thought to themselves "Let's see if we can still make money if we dick-around a bit." and probably "Well, we don't have anything else to do. So let's fuck up this game, send it out, then a month or two later, we'll have work to do so it looks like we're working." But then, when I think about it, it sounds like they were all 20 when they started working, now they've slowly degenerated back to teenagers when they all hit 40.

To end this point, I think I should say; patches are a game-designer's way to say "We fucked up."... Unless it actually does something or makes the game better.

Also, I believe everyone should just buy the originals off Amazon for $10/£7 and be happy with themselves ._. That's what I've done.

 

[Padwolf]

God damn, I was looking forward to getting the HD collection! I could get it on PS3 instead of XBOX I suppose, but I rarely get a chance to play the PS3. Oh well, I'll stick to the original I guess. But this just seems lazy to me, but since microsoft would charge a hefty sum for them to patch it, I suppose it's better than nothing at all.

 

[ace_of_something]

This game could've been a super easy slam dunk for Konami it's a series people love and will buy. All you had to do was make it work well and they couldn't swing that.

I can't wrap my head around this. How on earth is this the better choice financially and from a PR standpoint for Konami? I mean I've had plenty of games where the company NEVER patches a broken issue or says anything about it so I guess it's slightly better than that.
I've got the game on ps3 and haven't had any of the issues people were complaining about since day one. Ya know, other than it just generally not looking very good or HD.

 

[Biodeamon]

good thing i read this. i was bored and looking for a new horror and the new collection crossed my mind. screw this shit, i'm getting the BFG collection for Doom.

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

Thank god I own both systems so it's no big deal to me, time to get the ps3 version 100% for sure.

 

[esperandote]

There was a bug here... wait, it's still there.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Glad I never went out and got it. It's good to see some companies still release broken products and somehow think it's perfectly okay to leave it as such since it's only to a "minority of users". That's a bold and cold response to your user base. I'm glad they care so much.

 

[Vinny Andreotti]

Silent Hill: Downpour vs. Silent Hill 2:

http://vinnyandreotti.blogspot.com/2012/09/silent-hill-downpour-vs-silent-hill-2.html