Customer Reviews

Kitty Luv

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(39)

 

 

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I should have checked the other reviews here before I let my kids waste their allowance on a completely worthless game.

I loaded this worthless game onto two different, new, fully updated computers and could not get the game to run properly, if at all, even after several hours of work. On one machine it would not run at all, on the other it ran extremely poorly so I downloaded the patch which only made things worse, now it will not run at all.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME - IT IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY!!! I am an advanced computer user with 29 years of experience with software, hardware and programming and use computers all day everyday and I could not make it work and gave up.

I do not know how this company lives with itself taking money from little kids and reducing them to tears as my kids were (which explains the hours spent trying to get it to run) and I see from other postings here many other were as well.

I do not think I can really say enough bad about this worthless disk - OK, almost worthless as I guess one could play Frisbee with it.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!

The game crashes when you start it most of the time. It always crashes when you change rooms. The patch makes it worse. Tried on Nvidia, ATI and Intel graphics machines with full updates. Crashes no matter what.

I bought the game for my daughter. I have been unable to even get the game running although I meet and or exceed the requirements. I downloaded the patches e.t.c that were available but still all I get is a message saying cannot initialize video mode. Daughter is very diappointed and hurt as to she was looking forward to being able to play this. Even though game does not work cannot even get refund since it has been opened. Not worth the hassle. (Update)-Have written the company for about the 6th time since buying, first 2 responses were to simply download the patches(which I had informed then I had already done) now I get no response at all.

Got this for my daughter. First it wouldnt work at all. It was missing drivers that I had to download off thier website. Then when I finally got the program "working" It was very bizarre. The cat ended up absorbed into a wall - strange. None of the activities worked the way you'd think they should. I ended up with my daughter in tears and throwing the program in the trash.

Today is January 6th, 2007. I bought this game today at Target. Came home installed. Our computers are the latest and greatest. We installed the game. It crashed. The kitty never meowed. So, we went off to the website to get the update/patch. Installed it. The patch fixed a few things but overall this is not a game, and wouldn't keep the interest of my five year old. So the question is, who is this game for? Well, it would be for a younger person BUT you need the skills to read so if Mom/Dad is willing to sit with child while trying to navigate through the screens then I'd recommend this game only for a 2 or 3 year old. I am a software engineer and my husband is also a programmer for over 15 years with a degree in Computer Science. Our professional opinion is don't buy this game. We called Target and they will not take it back even after I explained that every game on their shelf (Kitty Luv that is) is defective. We lost $19.99 plus tax at the Loveland, CO Target. Even after explaining to the manager that the software is defective, she stuck to her guns and would not take it back unless I wanted the exact same thing. Why would I want the exact same defective piece of software? She didn't understand computer programming and thinks a different disk would be better. Ugggg. All the disks are bad I explained. The software is exactly the same on all disks!
So, for anyone reading this, you will be sorry if you purchase this game even if you get it cheaper than $20. I'm so mad. Where was the testers in this piece of software? How could you release such a game to the public without testing? The software developers on this game should be ashamed, rather not so much the developers but whomever the release team manager was. He should be fired. You have made the public mad. And I'm just one that has the taken time to write. I'm sure there are others who are not even aware of this forum.

My 6 yr. old daughter bought this game at WalMart with her own money. We brought it home and like everyone else, it crashed time after time. She was REALLY upset!

But after downloading the patch from [...], it now seems to be working fine. For those that have already downloaded the patch, you might go back and try again because it says this patch was released on Sept. 14. (i noticed all the reviews were prior to that date) I'm guessing they have very recently updated the patch.

That being said, I'm giving it three stars because my daughter is telling me five stars, but the game just doesn't look that much fun to me. I would say two stars at most....but she's not having it. So we have compromised on three stars. I actually think she's only saying five stars just because she's so darn relieved we finally got it to work!

She seems to enjoy it so far, but I'm thinking that it will probably get boring pretty fast. There isn't a lot to do except feed it, give it water, brush it, etc. Very repetative.

But I'm just glad we were able to get it to work! If you already have the game, go re-try the patch again!

To all the people who bought this "game" and were frustrated and disappointed that it doesn't play correctly, even with the patch: Fight back!

"Caveat emptor" is a thing of the past; consumers today do not have to put up with this. Report the developers and publishers to the FTC, you can do it through their website. File a complaint with your state's attorney general. Look up the company's info on Verisign's WhoIs, or do a Google search on the company and anyone listed in the game's credits. You'd be amazed how much contact information can be found over the web, both home and work.

Call them up and continue calling them up until you get what you want, or work your way higher up the chain of command. You have to be relentless, don't let them off the hook. This is the only way to get through to greedy companies who sell non-functional garbage to make a buck.

Couldn't get it to stop crashing on either my maxed out gaming platform or my regular Dell home computer. The "patch" didn't have any effect.

As all the other reviewers say, this software is junk. The so-called upgrade to version 1.6 is an abomination.

The following is the text of a message I sent to Lost Sock, who is supposedly responsible for this trash getting into the marketplace. I doubt I will hear back:

Folks:

You have managed to sell software that is a complete abomination, in the name of Kitty Luv. My daughter has succeeded in wasting her own hard earned money on this piece of utter trash.

The first version spontaneously crashed (running on Window XP Pro with a high end Navidia video card.)Your so-called patch apparently changed the interface, and stopped the crashing, only because most of the options available to click on simply do not invoke anything. The only activity this "kitty" does autonomously is pee in its litter box and scratch the post. The mouse arrow does not change to a "hand" in order to facilitate any interaction with the virtual kitty. No ability to change location as well.

Whatever nitwit within your organization allowed this garbage into the market place should be summarily canned.

Corporately, you should be embarrassed. Take a look at various website reviews where this trash is up for sale, and you will get an eyeful of how much of a failure this product you are ripping people off with is. A pitiful example of "software" that does nothing but disappoint.

Have a nice Christmas...

I work with computers for a living and this is the worst piece of software that I have seen. It did not work out of the box at all. I looked up and found that there was a patch (the web site says version 1.6, but the patch itself says 1.8 when installing). I have tried this on three systems with no luck. On the HP 7955, it just locks up - no mouse to control it. On the other two systems, we could not change locations (as reported by others) and could only do two of the activities. I would expect this of alpha/beta software, but not of released software, especially after 8 published patches.
The web site is less than helpful - some of the pages are blank (like the support page).