- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Bungie's posting a news item about stats issues?
Gimme a break. They have stats issues every freaking day. A day has yet to pass when I log on to bungie.net and don't run into a problem with my stats - I'll either get a user-not-found, I can't see the friends on my friend's list, I can't see the last 10 games I played, my Rumble Pit stats have been reset, I get a "No games played" message for my level in another gametype, or all my old Gameviewer stats have been deleted (oh wait, that wasn't an "error" - that was a planned event).
Is anyone else seriously frustrated with this crap? To anyone who thought Halo 2 was overhyped...Bungie.net is wickedly, extraordinarily overhyped. The Gameviewer, the RSS feed, the new Bungie.net layout, and all of our Halo 2 XBL stats in general were supposed to be sweet & awesome features, and honestly, they're all broken.
The Gameviewer is decent (though it obviously pales in comparison to the replay feature found in many RTS & FPS games on the PC), but what is up with them clearing that out? The RSS feed is nifty too, but what good is 7 days worth of data? I want career stats; I'd rather having 5 numbers that tell me overall kills, deaths, games, and points than just the 7 most recent days of games.
Don't even get me started on Bungie.net. They spent months working on this thing, and it still sucks. I run a 1.6 GHz Pentium M, and the page still doesn't scroll smoothly. The eye-candy-only nav bar obscures text on any document longer than 1 page, so you have to page-down then scroll-up to read it...it's like one of those pop-on ads that stick to the reading frame wherever you scroll! You end up with something like 300x500 pixels worth of viewing space for your content.
You can't search anything worth searching here either. There's no search feature to find your placement on the leader board, nor a search feature to find the messages you've post (let's not even dream of an e-mail notification telling you when people have replied to your posts). Computers were practically invented to expedite searching.
And don't give me that crap about having too many people using the site. How many other sites do you see with such pathetic robustness? When's the last time Google went down? When's the last time battle.net went down? For a game that's grossed over $200 million, where all the visitors of the site have already paid at least $50 a pop for a user experience (and let's not forget Live subscription fees & overpriced controllers & headsets), you'd really expect to have a stats website that could be error free for more than 24 hours.