Way back in November I mentioned a huge problem with Age of Mythology for Mac. This one post has been the most active thread here on snapturtle by far with a lot of user comments and I’ve seen it linked in several Mac gaming forums on the net. So four months later,you’d think that a patch would have been developed to fix this obviously horrid feature by now. Uh…. no. Macsoft, are you listening? Currently this issue isn’t even mentioned in their FAQ.
So, tell me Mr. Peter Tamte, MacSoft President, when am I, the average consumer, going to get a fix for this issue? You talk about piracy of your company’s games and patch Halo 3 times in a one month span yet nothing for AoM? This glaring issue is a serious problem. Someone like me who purchases this game with an advertised feature of online gaming expects it to work out of the box. Even through GameRanger for a majority of people it just doesn’t work. I have infact gotten it to work, yet countless others have not. What makes this so frustrating is that when attempting to play online most people have no clue the hoops they need to jump through in order to play online and others just can’t seem to get it to work no matter what they try.
I wrote the online configuration guide in hopes that it would solve the problem while waiting for an official patch. That has yet to happen. Please correct this problem so those who have spent good money ($50) on this game can enjoy the feature set that was promised to them on the box.