I just want to play my game

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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This x100:( Aleast when I exit a game I just alt+tab and close so I can at least get out of the game quick.
 
Krisali said:
Get good internet then it really doesnt matter
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Not an option for a lot of people. I will hopefully be able to upgrade to FTTC when they get round to upgrade this year but I very much doubt I will be getting anywhere near the advertised speeds of 40\10. Whatever I get it has got to be better than 2.5 which what I have been getting for the past 6 years.
 
wnb said:
Not an option for a lot of people. I will hopefully be able to upgrade to FTTC when they get round to upgrade this year but I very much doubt I will be getting anywhere near the advertised speeds of 40\10. Whatever I get it has got to be better than 2.5 which what I have been getting for the past 6 years.
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same here and my original date for getting it was promised at march last year. sufficive to say im getting impatient at 3 meg
 
Guest2 said:
you must first update the client, then login and update the game.
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Client update takes less than 30 seconds on my 1.5meg line.
Game updates happen occasionally, depending on the game.

Guest2 said:
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.
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I get this occasionally.
I close Steam, then reopen it 5 seconds later and it works just fine... every time.

Guest2 said:
Is it possible to play offline without direct from files without updating anything?
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Most of my games can be played in Offline Mode and on the rare occasions when Steam is actually down/cannot connect, I get the option of starting it in Offline Mode.

Speaking of the olden days... Try waiting 45 minutes to load your game from a cassette each time... and having it fail to load 30 seconds before the end!!
 
Hate Steam recently even with FTTC 75Mb it causes me constant issues due to the downtime.

Uplay + Origin are even worse as they require constant updates to their client before you can even download the game update.

Uplay is probably the worse of the lot you have to download/install each individual update on Assassins Creed 4 & Splinter Cell games :rolleyes: :eek: at least Origin patches include the previous updates.
 
I've had to download AC4 twice on Uplay due to it failing to install properly the first time, never had that with Origin or Steam in the years I've used both.

Each attempt took 40 hours.
 
Krisali said:
Get good internet then it really doesnt matter
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If only it were that simple. Where I live, there is:
-No FTTx
-No Cable
-No ADSL2+
-No 4G

So the best you can get is up to 8mbit ADSL, I usually have a 4500kbit profile. Nowadays the likes of Origin and Steam have ridiculous updates well in excess of 60MB, meaning at least 2mins to download, assuming I'm not using the connection for anything else (which I probably am, because it is slow, which means I need to leave it downloading new games, updates for games etc)

Oh, the other things that annoy me about this include:
-Origin often forgets my login details after an update, so I have to try and remember my password
-Steam often wants to run loads of redist installers when I am starting a game for the first time... C++, DirectX, MSXML blablabla
-General annoyance at having to load a shell application in the first place
 
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2Mbit here and only as I customized the firmware on the modem so I could change the SNR, without that we were getting around 1.3Mbp/s. Game updates are the bane of my life, can take half a day for a standard update and during this time no YouTube watching (it constantly buffers at 720p quality even with a clean line).

My wife actually has a fear of buffering now, it properly stresses her out haha. :P
 
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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Can't get cable, can't get fibre, only ADSL. Paying for 24Mbps and receiving 2-4Mbps depending on the weather, alignment of the stars, whether next door has farted into the direction of the phone lines.

It's not as simple as "get better internet"
 
I find this pretty annoying too to be fair. long gone are the days where you installed the game and ran everything though that :( remember when it used to be: instal game > run game....and that was it... or even, as stated, run straight off the disk!

now it's all through various systems. mostly pointing the finger at battlefield here. install origin, install game, install extension for web browser, join game from web browser which opens origin which opens the game.... seriously WTF?! enough ******* hoops already!

I liked steam as it was the ONE download platform. but now with the likes or origin and uplay it's a royal pain in the butt as just having to instal even more junk just to play a game.

heaven forbid the internet go off.... can do jack **** with most of them then :( can you even play single player bf4 without internet? o.O I've been caught out at times when net has gone down and i just want to play ANYTHING! but nope, steam wouldn't let me in offline mode as I had to log off into offline mode.... or some BS :(

I do like the auto updates they do.... but again.... couldn't this be done just through the game anyways as some people, as mentioned, have limited internet so when these programs decide to auto update they could cripple the net for normal browsing :(

it's all in the name of money making at the end of the day "you have to play our game through our platform.... oh.... and while you're here.... LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER STUFF YOU CAN GIVE US MONEY FOR!!!! GO ONNNN!!!!! " ******* annoying :mad:
 
Indeed.

I can download a 20GB+ game quicker than it used to take me to find the CD and install a 640MB game using a 2x CD-Rom.

Monkey Island II was on 11 floppy disks on my Amiga, and didn't install to hard drive. You had to swap the disks nearly everytime you changed areas.
 
Sasso said:
I find this pretty annoying too to be fair. long gone are the days where you installed the game and ran everything though that :( remember when it used to be: instal game > run game....and that was it... or even, as stated, run straight off the disk!

now it's all through various systems. mostly pointing the finger at battlefield here. install origin, install game, install extension for web browser, join game from web browser which opens origin which opens the game.... seriously WTF?! enough ******* hoops already!

I liked steam as it was the ONE download platform. but now with the likes or origin and uplay it's a royal pain in the butt as just having to instal even more junk just to play a game.

heaven forbid the internet go off.... can do jack **** with most of them then :( can you even play single player bf4 without internet? o.O I've been caught out at times when net has gone down and i just want to play ANYTHING! but nope, steam wouldn't let me in offline mode as I had to log off into offline mode.... or some BS :(

I do like the auto updates they do.... but again.... couldn't this be done just through the game anyways as some people, as mentioned, have limited internet so when these programs decide to auto update they could cripple the net for normal browsing :(

it's all in the name of money making at the end of the day "you have to play our game through our platform.... oh.... and while you're here.... LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER STUFF YOU CAN GIVE US MONEY FOR!!!! GO ONNNN!!!!! " ******* annoying :mad:
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You have conveniently forgotten how TERRIBLE steam was at the beginning.
 
I was first duped into steam when I bought HL2 and it was the most frustrating experience I'd ever had with a game - I could not get it to connect through the uni internet system so I took my computer home at weekends to play. I really could not see Steam catching on...

Can't imagine being without it now, lucky enough to have FTTP infinity and it was heaven to be able to break my Skyrim (mis)installing mods and just be able to delete it and download again in a few minutes.
 
TheLegendOfMart said:
You have conveniently forgotten how TERRIBLE steam was at the beginning.
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and you're point? ok if it was crap to start then I assume it's a lot better now? I honestly can't remember when I installed steam..... probably a few years after Half life I as remember activating it on there a good while after I had the game and It opened up TFC and HL: DM and such up. seemed to be alright then? but then I was on 56k and my online gaming was UT99 and ultima online :p

and still.... point being? I was more ******* about the fact that there's a well established digital downloading platform but now other companies are jumping on the band wagon and just making life more difficult. In my opinion.
 
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