I purchased GTA4 and the DLCs during the last Steam Sale. It seemed like a steal for 10 bucks. That was until my first experience below.
It took an hour to download everything, but once that was through I was able to start up the game. I left my computer and got some water, thinking that it would load up by the time I got back. Instead, I saw a registration pop-up for rockstar games, saying that I needed to fork over my info with them and create a new account.
10 minutes later, I've made a new account and try again to start the game. This time, I encounter a GFWL pop-up immediately when I try to start the campaign, The Lost and the Damned. I need to create a new account and copy over my serial!
15 minutes later and after several browser pop-ups for silverlight, installing GFWL and other bull, I finally star the campaign. I wait five minutes before the intro cinematic is over only to be told by GFWL that I need to apply an update. Oh, and it also forgot my login details.
10 minutes later, I start the game once again, put my login info in once again and get to the same point. Same pop up shows up again.
20 minutes later (I leave to check my email and do something else), I come back and try it again. After putting my login details for the 3rd time (they should develop some form of Autofill!!!) I manage to play through the first mission of the campaign before GFWL tells restarts my computer.
1 minute later, I start the game up and put in my login details for the 4TH TIME only to notice that the game has forgotten all of my progress. I am forced to watch a ridiculous 5 minute cinematic once again and play through a monotonous driving mission again.
20 minutes later, GFWL tells me that I have been signed out and need to log back in. For the fifth time, I put my credentials in. GFWL tells me that I need to redownload my profile, but needs to restart before this is possible.
1 second later, I bring up the task manager, kill EFLC.exe (the game) and start to type this post.
Sigh.
It took an hour to download everything, but once that was through I was able to start up the game. I left my computer and got some water, thinking that it would load up by the time I got back. Instead, I saw a registration pop-up for rockstar games, saying that I needed to fork over my info with them and create a new account.
10 minutes later, I've made a new account and try again to start the game. This time, I encounter a GFWL pop-up immediately when I try to start the campaign, The Lost and the Damned. I need to create a new account and copy over my serial!
15 minutes later and after several browser pop-ups for silverlight, installing GFWL and other bull, I finally star the campaign. I wait five minutes before the intro cinematic is over only to be told by GFWL that I need to apply an update. Oh, and it also forgot my login details.
10 minutes later, I start the game once again, put my login info in once again and get to the same point. Same pop up shows up again.
20 minutes later (I leave to check my email and do something else), I come back and try it again. After putting my login details for the 3rd time (they should develop some form of Autofill!!!) I manage to play through the first mission of the campaign before GFWL tells restarts my computer.
1 minute later, I start the game up and put in my login details for the 4TH TIME only to notice that the game has forgotten all of my progress. I am forced to watch a ridiculous 5 minute cinematic once again and play through a monotonous driving mission again.
20 minutes later, GFWL tells me that I have been signed out and need to log back in. For the fifth time, I put my credentials in. GFWL tells me that I need to redownload my profile, but needs to restart before this is possible.
1 second later, I bring up the task manager, kill EFLC.exe (the game) and start to type this post.
Sigh.
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