That's what I was thinking, but it's just that the article never explicitly stated that you're supposed to be able to do those things after reaching that point. It was only implied with the mention of the bug. But for example, in the new Deus Ex, once you leave an area, you can no longer go back to complete sidequests. That was an intentional design decision. The article almost made it sound as if there was a story event in game that would make it seem out of place to have people offering side missions or an option to go back.

You're completely misinterpreting what I meant by "explicitly".

You said one of the issues the bug causes is "people who gave out side-missions and races are either gone or refusing to do so from now on."

Having said that, you should also be able to say what would normally happen if the glitch doesn't occur. You never "explicitly" stated what would happen under normal conditions, which is something anyone who played through the game would know if the game didn't glitch. It was only implied that you should be able to talk to those people and get missions. You should make that clear (in other words "explicit") that you know that's what is supposed to happen, and that it's not just an assumption based on what you think is supposed to happen.

In order to know it's a glitch, you need to know what isn't a glitch. What you described as a glitch could just as easily be intentional, and providing an explanation of what would happen under normal circumstances would confirm to your readers that it is indeed a glitch. You can't say something is broken if you don't know what it looks like when it's not broken.

That doesn't require spoilers, and doesn't require that you had inside developer knowledge. If you can tell it's a glitch without designing the game, you should know what happens when the glitch doesn't occur. Otherwise, you don't know if it's a glitch, or the way id intended it. Yeah, maybe if it was intentional, notifying players that it's a "point of no return" would have been helpful but that's a whole different issue all together.

Bottom line is, if you can't tell me what's normal, you can't tell me what is abnormal. All I asked was for clarification on what is normal, and I'll point out that you still haven't done that.

MrBeatdown
There is no way this is an intentional design and I have completed Rage on the 360 and ran into this problem. It is a bug in the save features of this game.

When you complete the final mission in this game it doesn't register as having been completed. When you continue the game after all the credits are done rolling, you are at the beginning of the final mission all over again.

When you leave the area to try and go complete the rest of the missions they are all locked out and your mission indicator keeps pointing you back to the area of the final stories mission that you have already completed.

There is no way to go into detail about this bug without completely spoiling the game for those that have yet to complete it or even those that have yet to start playing the game. This is a bug / glitch. Take it from someone that has completed, or so I thought, the story missions of Rage.

The fact that there are trophies and achievements for the completion of the side missions and other task (can't go into detail without spoilers), only further cements to the fact this was not designed to be this way and is in fact something that most likely id will fix with an update. If you search google you will see others have asked about this after completing the game and asking how in the hell they are suppose to get the remaining trophies / achievements if it's locked out to them after the final mission.

This is 110% an unintentional bug/glitch and not the intent of the games design by id. Unlike Hitman, and no offense to him, I will go on record and say that without a shadow of a doubt because I tried finding a work around this bug for a couple hours.

Now I am starting from a save I had several missions and a few hours before the end of this game. I guess it's better than having to start from scratch to get a 100% completion but no less annoying. This should've NEVER been released with such a bug.

What I am wondering is if this is across all format or strictly the 360. I have only played the 360 version. I have a couple friends that are nearing the end of the PS3 version without all the side mission and items collected. They are going to see if it affects that version as well.

Either or, id needs to fix this ASAP!

BTW this is only one of many bugs and glitches I myself have found in Rage. There is no way to go into detail about them without major spoilers and I am hoping that it wont be necessary because id will patch those as well once these errors are reported to them. Which I for one did. Report them, that is.