I just want to play my game

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More often it seems games run on clients - Uplay, Steam, Origin etc. and before you can play you must first update the client, then login and update the game.

Much easier in the olden days of inserting a CD / Floppy and playing direct from that then remove (or as I did leave it in the CD) after playing. This was usually an option instead of doing a full hard drive install where no disk was required

Quite a few times I have seen 'Unable to connect to Steam, check your network connection' - even though my connection is fine and Internet / all other games / clients work. Then by the time it works again I have gone off playing what I wanted to play

Is it possible to play offline without direct from files without updating anything?
 
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Quite agree with you, Origin is the worst for me. In the rare times i get time to play there always an update to do, then it forgets my password which I end up changing every time !
 
I have just had to cancel and Ubisoft auto update patch so I could edit my post! I would be nice to be given the option of limiting the speed of download

This was one of the reasons I stopped playing BF2 - all the time it would need patching to play. The birth of new multiplayer - but also the death of it IMO
 
Somewhat rose tinted, though. Back in the day if you had an issue with a game on your particular system, or needed a mod etc. you would have had to grab the patch/update from a magazine coverdisc. IF they had it.

Nowadays, there's nothing of the sort. It's delivered straight to you digitally.
 
Guest2 said:
I have just had to cancel and Ubisoft auto update patch so I could edit my post! I would be nice to be given the option of limiting the speed of download

This was one of the reasons I stopped playing BF2 - all the time it would need patching to play. The birth of new multiplayer - but also the death of it IMO
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u can limit the download speed. :)
 
Anyone remember how annoying the patching process used to be? Searching for ages for the newest patch and then finding out you needed the previous patches as well. Or finding the full patch and then having to wait forever for it to download. :p
 
Krisali said:
Get good internet then it really doesnt matter
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Agree with this. On 100mb fibre, it doesn't matter if they auto update and I'm playing a game online as I never even realise. Its how I've always imaged the service to be, yet the internet connection was the key to achieving it.
 
James J said:
Agree with this. On 100mb fibre, it doesn't matter if they auto update and I'm playing a game online as I never even realise. Its how I've always imaged the service to be, yet the internet connection was the key to achieving it.
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Same here, but this doesn't stop Origin/Steam/Uplay from going down though does it?
 
Omaeka said:
Steam is down almost daily these days. :(
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Really??

I know I am based in Australia and so may have different servers now but I NEVER have problems with Steam and I use it daily.

To the OP personally I think PC gaming couldn't be any easier nowadays, game updates and patches are delivered automatically and are seldom even noticed by me. When you have any multiple number of games this is a god send as you don't have to worry about incompatible versions in online play and you know you have the most stable version of the game without having to hunt down the latest patch.
 
Had a day or two of issues with steam a couple of weeks ago, apart from that it runs perfect day in day out. Loads up on startup so generally turn the PC on, nip off make a cup of tea and any updates to the client or game I wish to play are done in a few minutes. Not on any fancy 100mb connection, just straight up village 8mb.

only download that has been an issue was Titan"50gig"fall. could have made the effort to go to a shop and buy a physical copy, but to make it even easier I just stuck the download on over night, nice and easy.

I'd rather wait 5 minutes for something to update than go searching the inter webs for an obscure update or such...
 
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K1LLSW1TCH said:
Anyone remember how annoying the patching process used to be? Searching for ages for the newest patch and then finding out you needed the previous patches as well. Or finding the full patch and then having to wait forever for it to download. :p
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Yes people often forget that. Having a game at 1.0, and wanting it at 1.6, sometimes meant having to download 6 individual updates and running them in order. Then you get half way through and there is a random error so you don't know if it has updated or not :D

If I know I am going to be having an extended gaming sesh (i.e. on BF4) I will always open Origin the day before to make sure there isn't a big update (as my internet is *french accent* le terrible)
 
The thing that gets me is having to sit through all the crap just to play the game. Launch Steam/Uplay/Origin, click on game, go through countless dev/game studio splash screens and then finally start game. It's no better when you call it a day and want to exit the game. Hit escape, quit, are you really sure you want to quit, yes, at games selection screen, press exit to desktop, are you really really sure you want to exit to desktop, aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh ffs yes!!!! I just want to be able to play and exit my games. I don't need asking multiple times.
 
pastymuncher said:
The thing that gets me is having to sit through all the crap just to play the game. Launch Steam/Uplay/Origin, click on game, go through countless dev/game studio splash screens and then finally start game. It's no better when you call it a day and want to exit the game. Hit escape, quit, are you really sure you want to quit, yes, at games selection screen, press exit to desktop, are you really really sure you want to exit to desktop, aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh ffs yes!!!! I just want to be able to play and exit my games. I don't need asking multiple times.
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If I've already saved/don't care, I just mash alt-F4 as a lot of games will still exit straight to desktop that way :p
 
Steam > Origin > Uplay

I detest Uplay, had so many issues with it, got to admit though Steam is simply part of my OS install these days, I wouldn't be without it and I don't want to go back to CD/DVDs!
 
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