So... I'm not allowed to play without the patch?

[Cybergangster]

The wife's away so I thought I'd fire up Company of Heroes OF - I load up and the game tells me I need to download a 40Mb patch, no biggie... but when I try to download it tells me it failed. Try again, failed - wash, rince, repeat.

I cancel the download and try to login - I only want to play SP so should got on alright without the patch - but the game won't let me login unless I download this stupid patch.

What gives? I can't play a game I legally purchased now? I gotta go find a hack to bypass this feature? I might as well have saved my cash and downloaded the bloody thing from Pirate Bay

 

[Cybergangster]

It's things like this that really annoy me with PC gaming now. You put asside an hour to play some games and you end up messing about like this.

Exactly! I planned a couple of hours uninterrupted game time only to be held up by this. I could have played something else but I didn't want to waste 20 minutes installing and patching that too!

Thanks for the tip though, I disabled my NIC and completed Market Garden last night. Onwards to Caen!