ZBTHorton
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After going through all of today, waiting, watching the threads get bigger and bigger and bigger.
Can you ever think of a major company screwing up worse than today? So far today here's what I got:
#1. Curtains + some people no longer have image files in the program files folder.
#2. In random tournaments, certain players get the right amount of chips, certain ones don't.
#3. In random tournaments, players can no longer bet.
#4. In random tournaments, players can see flops without actually putting money into the pot.
#5. At random times, peoples buttons disapear and they cannot act.
#6. People are STILL randomly kicked off the client when resizing tables.
#7. A good portion of people can't even run party poker anymore because of how memory intensive it is.
#8. A whole wide collection of memory errors have shown up that we think is from some kind of memory leak.
#9. People are having to click the button time after time to make one action.
Plus, at least 10 more probably.
Now. I didn't make this thread to talk about the issues.
I was just wondering, do any of you guys ever remember a company being so incompetent to do this?
Why did they have the beta period if they weren't going to take our advice?
I can remember Windows 95 having alot of issues, but I don't they were as deep as these are...
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Aytumious
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Enjoy!
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uncleshady
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Damn I think every thread on the first page is Party related. Im gonna wait until the dust settles to log in and get the update.
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wackjob
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It really is very similar to Everquest I.
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Grummin
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Bodog Red was a pretty funny one.
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Phil153
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Yeah, it's pretty mind boggling. At least it's proof the place isn't rigged. I mean, if they can't code a simple application and get it working on the launch date, how the [censored] are they going to write a card rigging system that's undectectable.
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TEXASGUY
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Very well said! I would think this will cost them bigtime. If I owned stock, id be waiting for the market to open.
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Chrisman886
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First thing that came to my mind. But alas, I am a stock market nerd.
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FUJItheFISH
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im not an expert by any means, but enron was just one of many cheating companies. enron just happened to get caught.
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Entity
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TEXASGUY
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What the hell is that?
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NeverLie
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Honestly, I think #9 is intentional.
I notice that the multiple clicks only come when it is my turn to act, when I am hitting a check box or something it is always fine. This leads me to believe that this is in there to avoid hitting something when a window pops up. Come on, you know you have all unintentionally raised that way.
If so, it is a good idea in THEORY, but it pisses me off in practice.
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ZBTHorton
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What the hell is that?
The Chevy Corvair
Got recalled cuz of safety issues..
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uncleshady
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Looks like what a pinto would have looked like if AMC made it.
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El Ishmael
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Enjoy!
Spit out my drink. Lmfao.
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bigballz
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Enjoy!
Spit out my drink. Lmfao.
Honestly that makes me laugh everytime I see it
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El Ishmael
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I can remember Windows ME having alot of issues, but I don't they were as deep as these are...
FYP
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uncleshady
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I can remember Windows ME having alot of issues, but I don't they were as deep as these are...
FYP
Really? I thought XP actually bluescreened on Bill during the demo...
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SoCalRugger
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I've got a video clip of that happening to Windows 98. Did XP do it too?
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uncleshady
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I've got a video clip of that happening to Windows 98. Did XP do it too?
Damn Im old. Could be the old memory slippin...
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TwiceBanned
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Fod and GM concentrating on SUVs when gas prices are going thru the roof.Software can be fixed quickly.
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BrunoThePug
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Fod and GM concentrating on SUVs when gas prices are going thru the roof.
Yes, this was clearly a mistake, because the profit margins on those SUV's are walmart brand razor thin. You'd think they were out to make money or something!?!?!
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TFlo
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As big as they are, this has been disappointing
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haz31
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Windows 98 First Edition, Windows ME, MS DOS 4, All at least as bad [censored] ups. But these were huge applicaions so there is some huge.
I'm a software engineer, and to use the word incompetent to describe this upgrade by Party is a "slight" understandment.
The memory issue you are all experiencing appears to be GDI/GDI+ handles not being released. Restarting the computer every 2-3 minutes should help  .
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flub
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Ever hear of Andy Beal's jaunt into the rocket business?
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Simplistic
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while this party screwup is pretty bad, there have been plenty worse. this isn't going to do much to affect party's future. nor endanger its business.
there have been plenty worse company ending blunders.
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jasonHoldEm
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Yes, Poker Stars for not offering a 20% to $120 reload (yet  ).
J
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SackUp
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Sticking to Poker, Paradise Effed up big time. They OWNED the poker world and now look at where they are at. Party made changes but it still dominates and will continue to do so.
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Mogobu The Fool
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Remember when IBM first made the PC? They wanted to make their money selling hardware and service. They figured there's no money to be made in the software operating system, and gave that job to a dinky little company called Microsoft. They also figured there's nothing to be earned by making the actual microprocessors, so they pawned that off to a no-name called Intel.
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pokerswami
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Remember when IBM first made the PC? They wanted to make their money selling hardware and service. They figured there's no money to be made in the software operating system, and gave that job to a dinky little company called Microsoft. They also figured there's nothing to be earned by making the actual microprocessors, so they pawned that off to a no-name called Intel.
How about Digital Research licensing their dos to someone in a way that Microsoft could end up with a permanent license.
Without even thinking about the original poster's question for more than a couple seconds, how about
Arthur Anderson, Penn Central Railroad, Penn Square Bank (I believe it was called), all the major studios turning down "The Passion of the Christ", mid-1970's American auto. manufacturers not adapting to higher gas prices, etc.
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TwiceBanned
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Yep. Hit the Royal Flush on our calling station asses! 
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jrbick
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IBM's gotta lock on the cash-register market though.
(Wal-Mart)
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daveymck
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Any roll out I have ever been on has had similar severity issues (in many cases worse), for example every first release of Oracle financials is always a total [censored] up and needs mega patching. When you have a large userbase with multiple variations of operation system, system spec and internet connection then until you get the full userbase online you wont find out every problem no matter how much beta you do.
We are not 24hrs in yet if its as bad after a week then I agree its a total screw up. Having said that the button pushing thing is pretty bad if there has been beta testing this must have been addressed, unless the dba's screwed up the patching which is always a possibility.
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Ignignokt
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im not an expert by any means, but enron was just one of many cheating companies. enron just happened to get caught.
Enron is in fact an extreme example of corporate greed. If they weren't the Michael Jordan of cheating companies, they were at least the Shaq.
Not everyone fleeces their employees out of their life savings (by implying the employees couldn't sell off their stock so that it wouldn't plummet so fast), manipulates an "energy crisis" for its own gain, refuses to even tell analysts what it is the company is doing to make money, and basically spends its final days acting like a Kruger Industrial Smoothing full of George Costanzas trying to defend their "donations in your name" to the Human Fund.
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TEXASGUY
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How about guys in big pots when hand gets wiped out, is that a big deal? You think they are going to make that right? Please!
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SNOWBALL
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Not everyone fleeces their employees out of their life savings
At least Enron employees had life savings to begin with. Most jobs pay very poorly. Its almost as though private companies are more concerned with making a profit than they are about helping society. Don't pay attention to me though. I'm just cynical sometimes.
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Sciolist
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I think it's much worse to say "ok, you have abc pension scheme" then 20 years later say "whoops!" than say "pension scheme? Don't make me laugh!"
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mackem
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Nintendo : "Nah, sorry Sony. You can keep that 'Playstation'. We don't want it and are certainly not giving you 25% of all profits sold from it"
Sony : "Ok, We'll launch it as our own game console"
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revots33
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Can you think of a major company, ever messing up worse?
Does the Bush administration count as a company?
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Freudian
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Expekts move to the Tain network was much worse.
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RunDownHouse
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I was just wondering, do any of you guys ever remember a company being so incompetent to do this?
Outside of outright illegal activity (Enron), the first thing that came to mind was the Quaker/Snapple deal in the 90's.
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Sciolist
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How about the new recipe coke?
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tufat23
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Enron
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steeser
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Fod and GM concentrating on SUVs when gas prices are going thru the roof.
Yes, this was clearly a mistake, because the profit margins on those SUV's are walmart brand razor thin. You'd think they were out to make money or something!?!?!
SUV's had a huge profit margin...before they were forced to offer all of the incentives/rebates, which were partly caused by the rising gas prices.
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seeth3r9
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The yanks resigning bernie williams????
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junglewarfare
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Not everyone fleeces their employees out of their life savings
At least Enron employees had life savings to begin with. Most jobs pay very poorly. Its almost as though private companies are more concerned with making a profit than they are about helping society. Don't pay attention to me though. I'm just cynical sometimes.
Um, a lot of enron's schemes involved cheating society out of millions (usually the state of california and it's taxpayers). I don't see where you are going with that.
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MyMindIsGoing
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Expekts move to the Tain network was much worse.
The only good thing that came out of that was that I switched to Parbet with 30% rake back, ofcource they also switched some time later...
Expekt and Parbet [they are both owned by the same company] on Prima = by far the best online poker experience I ever had.
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Grey
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Does the Bush administration count as a company?
Probably not, but I'm sure you can count the oil company he bankrupted.
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SomethingClever
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USCSigma1097
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Atari, With the release of ET the video game.
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poker1O1
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1) Dreamcast after everyone learned you can burn their games
2) Gigli the movie, not a company, but worth mentioning.
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Losing all
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2) Gigli the movie, not a company, but worth mentioning.
Ishtar blows this away.
Tyco's party
Any Lions QB contract since Bobby Lane.
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bengele
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TheTruthSpeaks
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Enjoy!
Spit out my drink. Lmfao.
Wow, it was perfect timing too. The first post after the op listed a bunch of stuff wrong. LOL
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foureightsuited
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The release of the Chevy NOVA in spanish speaking countries like mexico
oh, and does this count?
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Harruin
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im not an expert by any means, but enron was just one of many cheating companies. enron just happened to get caught.
Enron isn't just one of the many, it was the golden poster boy. The things they did to fool investors/everyone probably won't happen again for a while.
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Scotty.
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1975 - Lucas offers his Star Wars films first to Universal Studios, the film company that financed American Grafitti. Universal passed on Star Wars because they considered it to be an unfathomable and silly movie idea. This decision ended up costing Universal hundreds of millions of dollars. Every single studio in Hollywood passed on the project except for 20th Century Fox. Fox gave Lucas $ 10 million to make what is perhaps the most influential film in the history of cinema.
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Kerth
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Falcon 4.0
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UATrewqaz
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Kumubou
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-K
Edited by Kumubou (02/17/06 03:51 PM)
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flafishy
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Quote:
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Remember when IBM first made the PC? They wanted to make their money selling hardware and service. They figured there's no money to be made in the software operating system, and gave that job to a dinky little company called Microsoft. They also figured there's nothing to be earned by making the actual microprocessors, so they pawned that off to a no-name called Intel.
How about Digital Research licensing their dos to someone in a way that Microsoft could end up with a permanent license.
Without even thinking about the original poster's question for more than a couple seconds, how about
Arthur Anderson, Penn Central Railroad, Penn Square Bank (I believe it was called), all the major studios turning down "The Passion of the Christ", mid-1970's American auto. manufacturers not adapting to higher gas prices, etc.
Decca telling the Beatles that guitar bands are on the way out ...
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TheFilmGeek
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1975 - Lucas offers his Star Wars films first to Universal Studios, the film company that financed American Grafitti. Universal passed on Star Wars because they considered it to be an unfathomable and silly movie idea. This decision ended up costing Universal hundreds of millions of dollars. Every single studio in Hollywood passed on the project except for 20th Century Fox. Fox gave Lucas $ 10 million to make what is perhaps the most influential film in the history of cinema.
Fox also made one of the largest business blunders ever in that same deal, giving Lucas all the merchansiding rights and single-handedly achieving the double whammy of not only missing out on literally billions of dollars, but making Lucas one of the most powerful men in the film world. The deal changed everything about how a film is marketed and where the money flows from.
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