Civ IV Release Boo-Boos

The release of Civ IV has not gone as smooth as planned, it appears. As reported at Civ Fanatics, "2K Games has determined that a small number of units of Civilization IV incorrectly included the French Canadian tech tree poster due to an error at an assembly plant". I want to research "Le Horsee".

Okay, so that's just a minor shipping glitch. Unfortunately, the game also won't run out of the box on a wide variety of ATI cards, giving the user a "Failed to Initialize Renderer" at startup, and dumping them back to Windows. Firaxis is still investigating why. Needless to say, this is frustrating a lot of impatient gamers, and I think can be put solidly in the "someone in QA is getting fired" category.

(update: Looks like they finally found a fix to the issue)

Finally, to conclude this entry, I want to share this diplomacy screen from the game: http://www.kalikokottage.com/civ3/sullla/walk27.jpg. Whoever wrote that line should be destroyed.