'Shoulda pirated it': when the consumer gets screwed - your experiences.

To bring this thread back on topic without it turning into a name the game thread.

Generally I've had no issues with DRM apart from Ubisoft's implementation of it, there are random days when I want to play one of their games and can't due to their servers being down or some other annoyance. It would take a very low price or a damn fantastic game to get me to buy from them again, its pretty much the main thing putting me of buying Far Cry 3 currently.

These days steam just makes it easy to buy something and install it and 99% of the time it will work i'm not saying steam is perfect but it does a damn fine better job than origin or ubisofts offering. I still have an issue which has been present since origin began whereby it just locks my computer up for 30 seconds randomly when its started such a pain.
 
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Where's Photoshop when I need it. :D
 
Steam used to screw me royally every time my internet connection went down with it's offline mode bug that persisted for what seemed like years, but I believe they've finally fixed it.

I used to regularly download no CD patches purely because I couldn't be bothered swapping CDs, or because the CD would get scratched and wouldn't read anymore. I think I've bought Baldur's Gate on three separate occasions because of knackered CDs.

I've avoided all recent Ubisoft games though, UPlay just sounds like a complete crock.
 
Only Splinter Cell Chaos Theory frustrated me. Worked fine with Windows XP but on Windows 7 the <insert swear word here> Starforce 3 protection just wouldn't work.

I have seen it on Steam to buy and I might get it again someday but it is still frustrating because the devs never released a patch so it would run on Windows 7.
 
I pay loads for games, seriously it's what I spend most of my money on but the recent ones that have done my head in were...
Farcry 3 and Assassins Creed 3. One of them I couldn't play for hours after it had been released due to failware.
 
Omaeka said:
Depends how often you reformat, it takes less than an hour to reformat Windows 7 and get it back up and running with drivers and essentials, my HDD has been reformatted 5 times in the last 6 months.

Formatting is as essential part of software maintenance IMO.
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5 times in six months seem beyond essential. I've not done reformat (excluding OS changes in years.That includes Not day one installs of Vista or 7 (XP did break after 2 weeks way back when).

Regular running of a few untillys and not keeping anything on my stem I don't use probably has helped with keeping performance up and issues low. To be honest Windows XP did get bogged down quite quickly after a few weeks of heavy use but since Vista I haven't gotten this behavior.
 
I haven't really had that much of an issue with DRM, at least not for a while. But I swear that early SecuROM was responsible for the tragic death of a couple of optical drives I used to have.

Actually what has me tempted to pirate now is digital distribution and how the vendor is able to ban your account, along with access to all of your games, seemingly on a whim.

Buying a game at a store used to impart some sense of ownership, you had a physical product. But what about now? When places like Steam seem to reserve the right to ban you from your account, and not even tell you why they did it. You can literally spend hundreds of pounds on games, and then loose the whole lot. And often just on a triviality. You don't own any of it. You may feel like you do, but in reality its only a limited license to use the product. And one that can be taken away from you at any time.
 
None yet, but I do worry about having games in my Steam account with activation limits. I think If one of my games did lock due to too many activations, then I'd have to pirate it as there is no way i'd buy it again.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
5 times in six months seem beyond essential. I've not done reformat (excluding OS changes in years.That includes Not day one installs of Vista or 7 (XP did break after 2 weeks way back when).

Regular running of a few untillys and not keeping anything on my stem I don't use probably has helped with keeping performance up and issues low. To be honest Windows XP did get bogged down quite quickly after a few weeks of heavy use but since Vista I haven't gotten this behavior.
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It's more the fact that a defrag for me takes over 24 hours, that's if I do it weekly, so it's much faster to just format it monthly/bi-monthly. :D
 
Oxy said:
You are a bad person for feeding the sequel churning machine.
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Sometimes sequels are necessary they couldn't have told the whole mass effect story in 1 game with the same depth they did with 3 separate ones. Sequels are necessary in certain cases to expand upon what was originally started to give greater depth to the customer.

Sure there are awful cases of this such as the CoD series which has its yearly sequels now. But the majority of sequels at least try to improve on the previous game and provide some fresh experiences. My 2 cents anyway.

On another note just curious but what games do you play Oxy?
 
Jongo said:
Sometimes sequels are necessary they couldn't have told the whole mass effect story in 1 game with the same depth they did with 3 separate ones. Sequels are necessary in certain cases to expand upon what was originally started to give greater depth to the customer.

Sure there are awful cases of this such as the CoD series which has its yearly sequels now. But the majority of sequels at least try to improve on the previous game and provide some fresh experiences. My 2 cents anyway.

On another note just curious but what games do you play Oxy?
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Elder Scrolls is a far better example than DLC pseudo-multiple-endings effect. Although the mechanics have dumbed down quite abit with each sequel, they all feel vastly different and the visuals & animations have improved tenfold with each installation.
 
Jongo said:
Sometimes sequels are necessary they couldn't have told the whole mass effect story in 1 game with the same depth they did with 3 separate ones. Sequels are necessary in certain cases to expand upon what was originally started to give greater depth to the customer.

Sure there are awful cases of this such as the CoD series which has its yearly sequels now. But the majority of sequels at least try to improve on the previous game and provide some fresh experiences. My 2 cents anyway.

On another note just curious but what games do you play Oxy?
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I play world of tanks and arma 2 once a week. Thats it, no good games anymore, I don't even bother trying new games anymore as they all suck.

For me gaming is rubbish, I got so depressed from MoH, Battlefield 3, Stalker, Metro, etc when they came out I don't bother with new games.

I am certainly not upgrading my PC ever again.

I am looking forward to Arma 3 and I hope CoH 2 is good as I will wait for the blitzkrieg mod to come out for it.
 
Nothing recent (thankfully), but in the past:
Ubisoft UPlay servers not being available for days
Gamefly / D2D activation incompatible with my PC - even customer support couldn't help me, so they gave me a full refund. Still, I would have preferred a working game...
GreenManGaming's Capsule royally screwed up my windows install (this was back when they were starting out) - now, it wall works fine.
And buying an expansion to a game only to realise after I'd bought it that it was only compatible with the full game version from their store. No refunds available either :(.
 
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