Uninstalling :(
Benjamin
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I have decided to uninstall BGEE 
Im over waiting for this buggy mess to be playable & feel like i've been taken advantage of by purchasing it as beamdog has not lived up to its promises.
Alot of people have complained about the unsatisfactory quality of the release & i ignored them hoping a patch should fix up the only small issue i was having at the time... but here we are 5 patches later & basic gameplay is bugged & im experiencing more problems then i was initially.
I am not a beta tester, i did not pay just to waste my time pointing out bugs in a inferior copy of a game i already own.
Im over waiting for this buggy mess to be playable & feel like i've been taken advantage of by purchasing it as beamdog has not lived up to its promises.
Alot of people have complained about the unsatisfactory quality of the release & i ignored them hoping a patch should fix up the only small issue i was having at the time... but here we are 5 patches later & basic gameplay is bugged & im experiencing more problems then i was initially.
I am not a beta tester, i did not pay just to waste my time pointing out bugs in a inferior copy of a game i already own.
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This is the only problem your posting history shows you pointing out. Although understandably frustrating, it occurs in a tiny and entirely skippable portion of the game. If you want to uninstall because of that, okay—but rather than simply saying you're uninstalling, it might be more productive to tell us what problem(s) you're having so we can help you out.
The patches have had the game running smoothly for virtually 100% of the PC users who meet the requirements and have up to date drivers for a couple of weeks now.
Really curious about your specific issues and what's actually buggy to the point of you wanting to uninstall the most epic RPG ever
Contact tech support or beamdog if you are unhappy, or at least post in the support forum.
That's on the computer upon which I can play the game.
On another computer and laptop with the Intel chipset, and, in the computer's case, NVIDIA graphics card? A total nightmare. Unplayable. If I didn't have the computer with AMD CPU and Radeon graphics card I would not be a happy camper.
Everyone has their right to their opinion. Go Jalily's route and offer advice and help to see if the issue can be resolved. Also learn to accept some people just reach critical disappointment with a game and no amount of help or bug fixes or additional content will get them to change their mind (see: the vast majority of gamers and Diablo 3)
Also just because something is working for you doesn't mean it isn't broken for someone else. With as many computer bits and bobs as there are, I think it's a miracle we ever get any sort of video games running smoothly across as many platforms as we do.
@Benjamin: Sucks you're leaving. Maybe come back to it in a month or so and see if your issues are patched out by then. In the meantime, you can still hang and lurk around the forums. We're (mostly) an easygoing bunch.
And we have bacon. Well, I have bacon. And you should have some bacon. It makes everything better.
No worries, every game forum has at least few posts like this.
In short: He isn't being belittled for being dissatisfied, but for his way of expressing it.
I also consider BGEE a bit of a let-down even though I have not encountered any serious bugs.
- higher res native resolutions
- the very nifty zoom feature
- the three new NPCs (all winners in my book)
- the new GUI.
And I even have grown to like the new graphic novel style movies. Although I want to see them improved to become a bit more dynamic. And I'd like to see all of them eventually put in.
I have yet to try the Black Pits, but I expect to enjoy it.
Moreover, I have high hopes for DLCs to come. Probably too high, lol. Here's my wish list:
I want to see banters! For the love of Mike, get WotC to sign off on a DLC mod that professionally brings BG:EE up to the standard of BG2 in this regard. I'm not even talking romances (which I don't care for anyway). Myself, I'd be happy with more of the type of stuff that was originally implemented for BG1 but is far and few between (inter-personal conflicts, flirts/reactions, friendships). And they should be voice-acted!
Again: referring here to relationships between NPCs. To what extent the PC might influence them is a dimension to be considered.
I can barely code my way out of a wet paper bag. So using DLTCEP is daunting for me. Yes, I can knuckle down and learn it all, in theory, but I have a very busy life. An official toolset of some sort with some ready-made scripting routines (select from a library) for non-coders to mod with would be the bees' knees.
More and more NPCs! Dorn, Neera, and Rasaad were all awesome (imo).
But this is full of hyperbole and half-truths. As far as I am personally concerned, Beamdog has lived up to it's promises, at least in my opinion (yes, it is actually an opinion that is stated here, not a fact).
Posting "alot of people" is also just misleading, because it alludes to many, but doesn't actually say that. If a group is made of 4, and 3 complain, then that is "alot", although when compared to hundreds, it is not.
I really fail to grasp why anyone would want to inform a forum that they are "uninstalling" a game.
Just do it.
Now, if one is unhappy, disappointed, yadda yadda yadda, then provide concrete, objective reasons why, based on facts. It is entirely possible that a forum community might be able to help one solve them.
The bugs I'm referring to have all been highlighted already, so I'm not going to flog a dead horse by repeating them.
Overall though, the team have done a great job, and I believe the PC version works very well. I would say to the OP just needs to update drivers and see if that helps - assuming he is on PC.
I really wanted to play BG over the holidays on my iPad, but I'll just have to wait till the updates are applied via Apple.
Stupid (possibly insulting) question; but did you remember to leave the surrounding areas by going to the border leading towards Gullykin? :P
I am not saying BG:EE is bad and I am certainly not going to uninstall it or ask for a refund, but there are issues and just as I don't think people should give the developers too hard a time I also don't think the problems should be marginalized.
It is perfectly reasonable to give up on a game if all it gives you is trouble instead of entertainment and if someone is frustrated with such a situation then he may very well voice that frustration within reasonable limits.
If he's trying to play it on PC either he doesn't meet the requirements or his drivers are out of date. Pretty simple to me..
If he bought the iPad version that's a different story.
The "no comply to orders"bug SHALL be fixed as well as the failed AI scripts before we can consider this game to be an ok release.
1) Speech is missing from many characters (Nimbul's line-I'm death come for thee, davaeorn's-so the stoic adventurer's have found their way down to my lair etc)
2) many guards will not protect you if you're attacked, for example Candlekeep guards will ignore Carbos and Shank
3) Similarly, if you start slaying commoners many of them will stay idle. No morale failure or turn hostile as in vanilla BG
4) you cannot select the resolution you want
5) NPCs do not respond well to mouse clicks. Also archers may sometime approach their targets and try to hit them with a bow at close range.
6) Rest/trap bug concerning thiefs/bounty hunters
7) not a bug but many of the new kits are way overpowered. Quasit has a lot of hps and magic resistance and can turn early game to very easy. Too many new magic items
8) new characters will repeat their lines too often. Rasaad will join your team and then leave immediately thereafter. In his quest Gamaz wouldn't talk to me because Rasaad was dead. I resurrected Rasaad and he still wouldn't talk to me. I was never able to finish his quest.
9) many more gameplay issues that i don't rememver right now
10) Technically speaking, game freezes too often especially near water (crossing the baldur's gate bridge it would freeze around 20 times). I'm using nVidia Geforce FX and I have no issues with vanilla BG. Sound may disappear entirely while playing.
All in all the game looks like it was shipped too early. While I enjoyed the new content, the bugs and technical issues discussed above ruined the experience.
By the way, you can't be disappointed by new items and kits - it was just meant to be because it's an enhanced edition. If you don't like them just don't use them. And some missing words have nothing to do with the gameplay.
1) Lol
2) Are you serious?
3) Seriously?
4) Given the zoom feature I'm not seeing the issue
5) I played through the game as the archer kit of the ranger class and had this happen to me 0 times. Of course if this were to happen to me it would be a 0 issue, the second my ranged fighter started to walk up to an enemy my fingers would have hit spacebar and I would have clicked their bow and clicked the enemy.
6) Haven't dealt with traps much, what is this issue?
7) You have now succeeded in making sure I can't take the rest of the list seriously, but I might as well finish at this point. Seriously, that familiar was your go to for over powered? I can think of a few other things. New kits? How many new kits were there? Off the top of my head only Blackguard is new, and that is easily not the most overpowered kit. There aren't that many new magic items, especially given the fact that we have 3 new npcs with their own quest line areas.
8) I haven't had any problems with new npcs, so far what you said with Rasaad dying and breaking his quest seems like the only legitimate issue you've had. Did you try leaving the area and coming back? If not this wasn't game breaking.
9) LAWL. LAWL. LAWL. LAWL. LAWL. LAWL. LAWL. LAWL. See my response to 7. LAWL.
10) If this game freezes your computer I'm pretty sure you need to blame your computer. I know a ton of people were complaining about intel graphic issues blahblahblah or something, but that is what my laptop has and it never had an issue from day 1. I tend to keep my drivers updated though so...
I've beat the game 3 times and played halfway + through on 10+ characters and have had 0 game breaking incidents.
If you were trolling and / or being sarcastic, well played.