Dead Island

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    There's a good reason for this - the version that released on Steam was a developer debug build.

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    "We deeply regret that an incorrect version of Dead Island was inadvertently made available to players on Steam launch in North America. We are very sorry for any issues you may have experienced while playing the game - the correct, patched version will be made available to North American players ASAP. Other territories will receive the correct, patched version on Friday."

    Well well well

    Bought the game on Steam. So far it's p good, I like how the combat system has tactical elements to it like breaking arms to weaken enemies, and how the one-liners are non-existent unlike earlier gameplay footage I've seen. So far I've only heard my dude talk when opening loot containers and accepting quests (and rapping in the intro )

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    More like they pushed and then released the wrong version. Publishers are epic.

    Sony somehow managed to put up the wrong Crysis 2 Decimation pack on EU PSN for a day or two, the one without any shaders

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    I think I just peed myself... reminds me of Half-Life deathmatch animations

    Someone found a reference to one of the female player characters being a "Feminist Whore" in the skill scripts in the debug steam release. While the original thread in the steam forums was incredibly depressing, with a massive gaggle of 12 year olds not understanding why calling a woman a whore is a bad thing, Deep Silver and Techland took it a bit more seriously:

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    It has come to our attention that one of Dead Island’s leftover debug files contains a highly inappropriate internal script name of one of the character skills. This has been inexcusably overlooked and released with the game. The line in question was something a programmer considered a private joke. The skill naturaly [sic] has a completely different in-game name and the script reference was also changed. What is left is a part of an obscure debug function. This is merely an explanation but by no means an excuse. In the end that code was made a part of the product and signed with our company name. We deeply regret that fact and we apologize to all our customers or anyone who might have been offended by that inappropriate expression. The person responsible for this unfortunate situation will face professional consequences for violating the professional standards and beliefs Techland stands for.

    As far as apologies go, I think this one is pretty good. No excuses, no bullshit, but a real apology, and definitive change promised in response.

    I fucking hate those types of people who work at a company and just sit round making jokes and not getting on with their work... There are a few like that at Frontier ._.

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