Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

ronin3338 · Novice Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 63

I like the game concept, and even the simple play (reminds a bit of the old InfoCom games).

However, I don't think I'll play anymore till these things are addressed:
1 - It glitches... a lot. Probably about every third time I want to play, I can't because something has to be resolved.
2 - Not user friendly. The rules say that if I lose an Ally, I can go recruit them again, but it doesn't say that you can't if you've changed your Social Standing. Also, in combat, even though I have melee weapons it will sometimes apply damage from my fists instead, and nothing explains why.
3 - Limited options. There are only a few quests, and most combinations of ingredients yield no results.

Maybe I'm expecting too much from the game, but I like the "real" Rippers, so I had very high hopes.
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Ogma · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject:

Sadly, I agree with you on all those points and more. I quit the game a couple weeks ago. After finding myself STUCK at 9th level for about 4 weeks, I gave up.

Viscount Fox · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Disappointing (rant warning)

Agent_Templar · Novice Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 80

@Viscount Fox

Actually, Rippers has been glitching so much lately that at times it is unplayable. True, many of the crappier FB games glitch a lot too, but there are plenty of games that are just as complex which manage to be more stable.

Savage Simon · Seasoned Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 452

This is very true.

We had a lot of trouble with the gaming slowing down just recently, with the result that it would time out more often than not. After much searching, we tracked down the problem and we hope to have rectified it. The game should be more stable again now, and we will at last return to the task of making our long-planned improvements.

Apologies to those who struggled to play through the glitchiness, we hope that this was a temporary problem and we can gt back to building on and improving the game.

Thanks

Simon
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marshal kt · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:33 pm Post subject:

Don't know if it's the cold; affecting servers or affecting my ISP or something else; but the past 2 days, the glitches have been terrible. I've played 9 different games and only 1 had glitches similiar to the rippers glitch.
The pages either don't completely refresh, or refresh with errors on the page.
I've successfully created ripper tech and not received the item when the glitch happened.
It happens in combat, or just switching pages.

Only Mafia Wars had the similiar problem, but not as often and seemed to quit after a couple days.
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