FAIL LIST - Crazy Games and Developers

[Guest001]

Please add your favorite game fails to this list.

Examples - Just 2 here, there are easily more than 200 others....

ArmA series, dang everything, pathetic game play and physics - Fail

Planetside2, barren, too many updates, huge 2GB updates - Fail

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Latest craze: Cut scenes, video hijack, boring and superfluous dialog - Fail

Developers going for DLC and update managers that probe your PC - Fail

Hackers, Wackers and Crackers everywhere - Fail

Information and User data scavenging for profiteering - Fail

Novalogic: 10/10 for non of the above.

[Steve]

Novalogic for telling us about angel falls in 2008 and not actually making the game.

ArmA is great tho

[Guest001]

Novalogic for telling us about angel falls in 2008 and not actually making the game. - Fail

LOL How can you say that Steve?

1. Novalogic are still going so you can't say the game has not been made (yet)

2. IMO - What a load of cr*p ArmA is, after 3 years I went back today and was bitterly disappointed, it felt terrible, highly unrealistic and I sure won't play it, I just want to check out the Day Z Mod.

[Guest001]

Cloud Backups - Fail

Making Optical media backups are a good Idea and insurance against drive failure.
You have to decide what is important and what is not, it can cost more time and $ to re-download from steam for example if you count that some regions only have access to ISP services with limited monthly data allowances.

Example today I downloaded Rage. Size 27GB Game cost $7.99 AU
Monthly data $80 AU for 50GB - download data cost $40 AU

That's $48 for an $8 game. So you can see how B*3 type distributions games are failing us because there is no way to effectively backup locally because of ridiculously paranoid security hammer blows from the developers.

At least steam currently has a local backup provision...

[SilentTrigger]

Originally Posted by stompem

Cloud Backups - Fail

Making Optical media backups are a good Idea and insurance against drive failure.
You have to decide what is important and what is not, it can cost more time and $ to re-download from steam for example if you count that some regions only have access to ISP services with limited monthly data allowances.

Example today I downloaded Rage. Size 27GB Game cost $7.99 AU
Monthly data $80 AU for 50GB - download data cost $40 AU

That's $48 for an $8 game. So you can see how B*3 type distributions games are failing us because there is no way to effectively backup locally because of ridiculously paranoid security hammer blows from the developers.

At least steam currently has a local backup provision...

Not that I have a download limit but I find it just as annoying with both steam and origin, I want to just put the DVD or Blu-ray disc into the computer, install and play. I don't want to use crappy and anoying Steam and Origin.

You can backup the game installation files so you don't have to download the whole thing all over again, but it will still need to install but atleast no bandwidth waste. All you do is copy the origion game folder for example: (C)/Program Files (x86)/Origin games/BF3 to a safe place, remember to do this after an update or you will have to re-download the update. Then when you need to install it or reinstall it or something you just copy the folder to (C)/Program Files (x86)/Origin games and then go into origin and pick Install on BF3 icon.

[Guest001]

Registry entries?

[SilentTrigger]

If you want to remove it, just uninstall BF3. This folder is pretty much only files needed for the install, it doesn't contain the installed game.

[Guest001]

Sry, I mean I have found in the past that an install of files alone can be useless without the correct Reg entries for many reasons, mostly use of system resources and vendor security checks, remember SecuROM?

[Sam]

Activision, infinity Ward, or sledgehammer games, bot takes over player in client if other client disconnects when playing coop - FAIL

[Guest001]

No skip dialog or intro button - FAIL

[Guest001]

Selfish morons in PS2