m4ik's Journal: Battlefield

I decided to start my journal - now that its possible for me to log on with my mac at work - for the times I get bored. This may be a good place for my rants when I don't want to troll forums.

So here's my rant of the day:
Gamers can be such assholes. Put out a demo with a few bugs and they will tear the game apart, stomp it and never look at it again. On the opposite, they can ignore major bugs and forgive even the shittiest publishing strategies if they like the game.

I'm especially talking about Battlefield 1942. This game must have the most awful copy protection scheme I've ever seen. Not only it requires the CD to startup (praise Id Software for more intelligence) but it checks the CD every freaking time the map changes. I refuse to believe DICE, the developer, invented this and blame it all on EA Games. May they burn in Hell. I didn't pay 45 to get my gaming time stolen, suckers. It works like this: switch to the desktop, start an ominous app, spin up the CD, see that its indeed still the BF1942 CD, switch back, connect to the server and start loading the map.
As you can guess, this takes some time, but we're not finished yet. Due to poor programming this procedure takes longer every time. It's actually faster to quit and restart BF because it doesn't do this the first time you connect to a server. Also, loading a map takes long enough to take a leak, get something to eat AND setup some coffee.

By the time I'm in the game, the first round is halfthrough.

I'll not even talk about the bugs in the game now...