It's way too much of a chore to play games these days

[StinkyPinky]

So I go to play Diablo 3 for the first time in a week, and it seems it has "detected a change in my activity" and wants me to verify before I can play. The change being I've upgraded to Windows 8...apparently that's enough for it to set it off. So I go to verify by putting in the first six digits of my game key, which of course it rejects and locks me out of my own account. Now I need to call them to get access to a game I only ever wanted to play single player. No thanks, it can stay locked. I was tired of the game anyway.

Of course I cannot play Skyrim because the Dawnguard DLC has a major show stopping bug that somehow got passed QA, so I cannot finish that.

No problem I thought. I'd go play GTA 4. Oh wait....Games for Windows Live wants to update. Again. And Again. And again. After 15 minutes of updating I've lost interest in that game.

So I'm off to watch midget porn.

 

[lotust]

I agree bro

 

[thejunglegod]

Hahahaha

 

[Arkadrel]

LMAO

Totally feel you, and it sucks that blizzard are locking accounts/keys on legit owners, for no reason.
It sucks that you can buy a production like Dawnguard but not able to play it, cuz of bug's.

I think gameing companies have it too easy, getting money out of pockets these days.
I think gamers shouldnt have to put up with all this sh*t.

 

[thejunglegod]

I think gamers shouldnt have to put up with all this sh*t.

Of course they shouldn't, but innocents are always the victims. An insane move to curb piracy. It's only a small amount of fckers that spoil it for the rest of us. Goes for real life as well.

Blizzard may have reaped amazingly high profits for D3 because of the hype generated prior to release and the fact that it could not be pirated. However, they have lost a lot of their fans and upset a lot of others. So it is a double edged sword.

 

[postmortemIA]

why don't you try to play TF2, they got nice big update just recently

 

[coffeejunkee]

Lol, I thought you were gonna talk about actual gameplay.

But yes, I hate games that require you to log in with your 'gamer profile' just for single player, not to mention the stupid achievements. GFWL probably killed more games than piracy.

 

[KeypoX]

why don't you try to play TF2, they got nice big update just recently

I remember the first days of steam, it laid the ground work for horrible horrible DRM. Yet now, it is the easiest method to play games.

 

[cmdrdredd]

What bug in dawnguard? I finished it as both a vampire and a dawnguard member. Aside from random crashing it works.

 

[modestninja]

LMAO

Totally feel you, and it sucks that blizzard are locking accounts/keys on legit owners, for no reason.
It sucks that you can buy a production like Dawnguard but not able to play it, cuz of bug's.

I think gameing companies have it too easy, getting money out of pockets these days.
I think gamers shouldnt have to put up with all this sh*t.

The only way to stop the gaming companies from doing sh*t like this is to stop buying their products that have this kind of DRM. I'm always amazed at the people that bitch and moan about how terrible the DRM in a game like Diablo 3 (or insert Ubisoft title here) is but still buy the damn game... The same thing is true for shooters. You don't think that COD should release a "new" game every year. Don't buy it then.

 

[Barfo]

To be fair, no game can beat midget porn.

 

[Axon]

I feel the same way. Tutorials drive me nuts as well. I think Arkham City did a good job of teaching you moves without being oppressive about it.

 

[Kalmah]

I feel the same way. Tutorials drive me nuts as well. I think Arkham City did a good job of teaching you moves without being oppressive about it.

Well, some games absolutely need tutorials, but many times the included tutorial is littered with bugs, slow and not very informative.

 

[gorcorps]

Still a pain, but IMO it's better than what I remember back when I left PC gaming in ~2006 or so. I remember having to tweak every little thing just right to get a game to run, and I was still having stability problems. Patches were rarely auto-updating and servers went down, so you had to hunt down the patch file from somewhere else. I don't get crashes anymore, and it's pretty much just a matter of install and play.

I did have one odd issue with BF3 recently which was annoying. I don't play often so when I do it has to update. The battle manager kept saying my full game needed to update when it already did and I couldn't get out of it. A PC restart fixed the issue though, so no big deal.

 

[Homerboy]

has nobody here every had to mess with creating your own boot floppies to run games?
Don't get me started on trying to get your SoundBlaster Pro card to work so you'd have sound in your games... you kids bitch WAY too much,

 

[clamum]

Seems like you just got unlucky. I can play BF3, Company of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Diablo III, Sniper Elite V2, etc with no problems at all.

 

[Raduque]

has nobody here every had to mess with creating your own boot floppies to run games?
Don't get me started on trying to get your SoundBlaster Pro card to work so you'd have sound in your games... you kids bitch WAY too much,

:thumbsup:

IRQs, DMAs, highmem.sys, yay!

I think I finally got tired of boot floppies, and I finally ended up writing am autoexec file that let me choose which game I wanted to play, copied a config.sys and autoexec.bat for the game, then rebooted straight into the game.

 

[Sable]

I've upgraded to Windows 8...

Upgraded?! lol

 

[nanobreath]

:thumbsup:

IRQs, DMAs, highmem.sys, yay!

I think I finally got tired of boot floppies, and I finally ended up writing am autoexec file that let me choose which game I wanted to play, copied a config.sys and autoexec.bat for the game, then rebooted straight into the game.

This was the way any serious PC gamer did it!

 

[ImpulsE69]

Floppies hell! Remember loading off tape? 30 minutes of 'bwshhshhhhrrt" only to find out at the end that the tape had been off by one or 2 counts so the game didn't load and you had to start over.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Floppies hell! Remember loading off tape? 30 minutes of 'bwshhshhhhrrt" only to find out at the end that the tape had been off by one or 2 counts so the game didn't load and you had to start over.

Remember when it took like 15 floppy disks to install Street Fighter II for the PC. Also remember when some games during play would ask you for disc 2 before continuing.

As for spare time for games, yeah it's not it used to be. I probably game an hour or two every week, that's it.

 

[thespyder]

But yes, I hate games that require you to log in with your 'gamer profile' just for single player, not to mention the stupid achievements. GFWL probably killed more games than piracy.

But... But.... How else are they going to model your gaming behavior so that they can effectively Market you to death?

 

[RPD]

The only way to stop the gaming companies from doing sh*t like this is to stop buying their products that have this kind of DRM. I'm always amazed at the people that bitch and moan about how terrible the DRM in a game like Diablo 3 (or insert Ubisoft title here) is but still buy the damn game... The same thing is true for shooters. You don't think that COD should release a "new" game every year. Don't buy it then.

This, I think the last PC game I purchased was HoN.. which I don't even play anymore because I play LoL. I just happily play my old games, which at most require a CD check. (I do believe I'll be getting TorchLight 2 however)

Can't wait for the industry to crash so they get their heads out of their asses.

It seems a lot or most people don't understand there's others avenues of entertainment out there. You don't have to spend it on a game.

 

[PowerYoga]

I think the only problem is you downgrading to windows 8.

 

[Aikouka]

I was too busy playing awesome, educational games like Number Munchers in the early-mid 90s to deal with multi-floppy games. I flippin' owned at Multiples!