Dear Atari,

So, here it is at last!  The long awaited and much anticipated patch for Test Drive Unlimited. The universal binary bandaid, that was supposed to take this game and actually turn it into an entertaining experience.  Having installed the patch, tested the game, as well as having read fellow gamers posts in the forum, I simply have to ask:

What the FUCK happened?!

Now, unlike many of my fellow gamers, I was lucky enough not to have experienced the graphic card incompatibility issues, sound problems, random game crashes, or any other of the myriad of bugs that shipped with this game - except one.  That god-damned game stutter.

You know about that one, right?!  Where you are driving along, usually at a high rate of speed, when all of a sudden out of fucking nowhere the game just decides to stutter/pause for an instant, causing you to be all over the fucking road before ending up in an glorious car crash.

At first that was kind of humorous, as in "Look, I totally just knocked that other car off the road." But it slowly started to displease me.  Especially when it causes you to lose races. Going so far as to tell myself that this is a cool "Matrix" like effect, temporarily stopping time, did not put me into a better disposition, either.  This problem is a dick up my ass, and it pisses me off.

And that sack of shit garbage patch you guys have been promising and delaying for months on end does not even fix the problem.  If anything, the stutter seems to be more frequent now. The game now stutters more than little Mike Buhren from the 7th grade! And you know what?  We kicked the snot out of that kid for talking weird. Obviously, that was wrong at the time, but you guys would seriously deserve it, you lazy, greedy, lying cunts!  Did you guys even test this shit?!

I suppose you deserve some credit - at least you did not go the Microsoft route and call the stutter a "feature" of the game.  But, nonetheless, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

In the end, I do realize that me not buying another game from you will not make a spit of difference to you.  Much like you don't give a flying fuck about customer service or satisfaction. But considering that your stock type is currently categorized as "distressed," perhaps that will help you to better relate to your customers.  Because that is how you are making us feel.

May you all go to "special" hell.  The one reserved for lazy programmers and people who talk during the movie.