I have just fired an e-mail off to Certain Affinity (the devs), at info@certainaffinity.com asking them to please come to the forums and comment on the situation.

There's nothing I hate more than being ignored, when there CLEARLY is a problem with a product, so, here's hoping that that will get some sort of response in here, even one that just acknowledges the problem at hand, and that they are looking into it.

Furthermore, I have written Steam support (where I purchased the game), regarding a refund.

While this game is moderately fun in single-player, the only reason I bought it was for multiplayer (which is also the number one feature that they market it on), and, multiplayer, as many can attest to, simply does not work, so the product must be considered broken.

I'll let you know when and if something happens in both cases.

Hello folks!

My name is Dave Jones and I am with Certain Affinity and we are aware of the issues some of you are experiencing. We are currently working on a fix to be patched out. I do not currently have an ETA, but I assure you that it is coming.

I do need some help tracking down the crash issues that are being reported on launch. If you have experienced these issues on launch, please post and let me know the details.

I should be around the forums several times this weekend and next week. I would love to hear likes, dislikes, complaints, and loves of Age of Booty.

I apologise for hijacking the thread but I am hoping for some official word regarding the multiplayer status for the PS3. Is there going to be future patch to address the issues?

I haven't been able to play mp at all since I bought the game. I sent an email to CA already so hopefully someone here or there will respond? Thanks!

I really appreciate the detailed posts! below I have some replies, info, and answers:

PS3 multiplayer Issues - I don't know any details on this but I will add this to my list for investigation.

"register AoB key with steam so it won't show up and one doesn't have to enter it each and every time (probably remove securom while you're at it and embrace steam's functionality)"

Hmm... I was unaware of the need to enter your key each time you play, we will look into this.

"ps.: I have posted it above already but just to make sure you're aware of it (because I don't think that's intentional: the steam pc version is shipped with a .pdb file and (it seems) full xbox360 source code)"

We will look into this as well

"multiplayer issues (I've only tried it once so others for sure have more details about it)"

"entering the credits freezes the game"

These 2 issues are currently being worked on and we hope to patch soon.

"ability to play custom maps locally (as challenge for example)"

Anytime you want to play your custom maps locally you can start a LAN game. You will have full options control just like a custom online game.

"I can set the screen resolution only to 1024x768 max (desktop res is 1650x1080, and the options menu shows also 1120x720 and 1152x720 but both grayed out, always. a higher resolution would be nice"

If your video card does not natively support a resolution the Age of Booty client will not make it available to you. There are ways around this (adding custom resolution support to your card) depending on your particular video card, but keep in mind any monkeying you do with your video card can introduce instability.

Notice that my video card does not support these 2 resolutions either and therefore those options will be greyed out for me as well.

"joypad input

splitscreen 

menu-option to restart a challenge instead of needing to quit and start

ability to build new maps offline!"

Right now there are not any plans to add these features to Age of Booty. 

PS3 multiplayer Issues DETAIL:  The online matching system is a complete disaster.

Nothing like dozens of games with 3 of 4 or 7 of 8 all waiting for that last player....

Here is my situation.  I'll finally find a game that fills up and the game starts, but before I can make any moves, I am back at the lobby with a message that the host is no longer avail, or something like that.

Funny thing is, before I PAID $10 for the "full" version, I could get into demo online games and everything worked fine, and the only problem was quitting the game because of the 3 game limit.  I should have just dealt with that inconvenience because it was a hell of a lot better than not being able to play online at all.

Sure am glad I plunked down those Doubloons on your early beta product.