Let's say your game shipped with a horrendous multiplayer bug that prevented many people from connecting to online co-op sessions. Would you fix it? Would you fix it quickly? If you're part of Wanako and Sierra Online, and your game is Assault Heroes for Xbox Live Arcade, then your answer is clearly "no." Yes, Assault Heroes was added to the XBLA library last December and played host to a serious co-op problem, namely that co-op games could not be joined by many people. Now, seven months later, a title update for Assault Heroes has finally been released. There's only one problem: you can't download it. In a particularly delicious bit of irony, you are greeted with an error message the moment you accept the update prompt. Oy vey.
Let's hope the Assault Heroes team gets their ducks in a row and fixes this problem soon.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-29-2007 @ 12:29PM
Phil said...
FAIL
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6-29-2007 @ 12:49PM
RolexDPracer said...
I loved this game.....until I couldn't play online with my friends. This game would have been a big hit if the online wasn't so broken.
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6-29-2007 @ 2:04PM
Clinton said...
I really enjoyed the demo but for some strange reason held off on buying it all these months. I didn't even know the online co-op as hooped. I'm a co-op whore, so maybe it was just my gamer's intuition. good thing i waited
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6-29-2007 @ 2:14PM
Tony said...
I've honestly never had a problem connecting to people or running the game online. In any case, I hope they get that back soon.
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6-29-2007 @ 3:35PM
mike said...
clinton, why is it a good thing you waited? Its not like there has been a price drop. Spending $10 on the game today is the same as spending $10 on the game 7 months ago, you just did not get to play it for the past 7 months.
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6-29-2007 @ 3:36PM
mike said...
Clinton, why is it a good thing you waited? There has not been a price drop. The game is the same price as it was 7 months ago. You just missed out on 7 months of playing it and didnt save a dime.
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6-30-2007 @ 3:16AM
Ross Erickson said...
You got this ALL wrong, Richard.... Not good reporting.
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6-30-2007 @ 7:43AM
Supino said...
@Ross Erickson
it would help if you told us WHY he got this ALL wrong.. Not good commenting, Ross.
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6-30-2007 @ 2:46PM
William Winchester said...
Assault Heroes really is a great game for Xbox Live Arcade. It is fun to play. It is almost like taking all the awesome elements of Smash T.V., Contra, Gauntlet, and a couple others, and combining them into one.
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