| This is an example of many comments made by the OP. It borders on being trollish, haughty, and arrogant. Also the way the OP does things or wants things done is the best in his/her view any other way is "wrong". This is silly. If you really need help learning the game and getting over the learning curve, those tutorials are priceless. |
So you know what you're doing, I'm sure that's good for you. I merely stated that I'm not sure that a video tutorial is going to be the best thing to help learn the game. There's no way that you can tell me that it's just as easy to watch one hour of recorded video and then try to replicate all the steps, versus actually jumping straight in and just *doing* things and having them pointed out along the way. I did read in the features (1.1 patch? Not sure) that there are helpful hints so perhaps it will all be okay.
Take StarScape by MoonPod for example... rather than throwing you straight in, it starts you off by teaching you how to move, mine, shoot, collect and allocate resources, etc... - and you learn by doing. Nothing can beat that
Now as for my rant, yes - I did write it whilst I was in a state of frustration. Consider my position; I've just played and enjoyed the demo. Enjoyed so much, that I purchased the game online *the very same day*. Let me tell you that this is highly unusual for me.
Next consider my experience of having purchased this; I have to create a *separate* account, validate that, log in, download SDC and install it and then figure out how the hell to get SDC to do ONE TASK: Let me play the game that I just downloaded.
However, SDC initially starts off full of crap and options that do nothing but get in your way. My mind is set on playing GC2, not on being upsold a million other bits of crap. If this were in an accessible but *out of the way* area of the application and everything worked as expected, then perhaps at a future time I might be inclined to explore; you can't just dangle a hundred carrots in front of a donkey, you have to give the donkey a very good carrot to begin with so that it wants to seek out more. However, SDC is very much a poisoned carrot.
As I said, it crashed and froze on me, frequently. Perhaps it didn't like that I was playing TrackMania Nations whilst it downloaded and the task-switch when it reached 100% made it crash? I don't know. But it crashed, I had to start downloading again and it frequently fails to start downloading. Maybe it's the fact that I live in Australia and not the US, I don't know.
But there are two thoughts that have gone through my mind over this debacle:
1. If I had've bought the boxed edition as well, I wouldn't have to go through this crap (albeit I'd be up for a wait of a few weeks whilst it works its way through the postal system). But I thought that $45USD was slightly higher than I'd normally be willing to shell out, so if I added P&P on to that I would not be willing to spend that much in one hit.
2. If I had decided to not reward StarDock for their work and acquired it by illegal means, I wouldn't have to deal with this SDC nonsense and it would have been a much more painless - albeit unethical - install.
So if everything works for you, that's lovely. But your glowing experience does not reflect my pained experience. I also cannot see the mythical whole-game download of which you speak, because if I could get a copy of GC2 without all this SDC bollocks I'd jump on it quicker than a very quick thing indeed.
Finally, don't dismiss someone who's just shelled out hard cash for nothing but bad experiences as a "troll". If I'd just come in and hurled abuse then yes, that would be justified. However, I articulated my problems and experiences. This is what has happened to me, this is why I am upset. Okay?
I'm sure that when I get to play GC2 I'll have a great time - as I said I really enjoyed the demo. It's just the "getting there" that is driving me up the wall. I'm downloading the ~500MB of movies at the moment. If SDC crashes at 100% again, well... it'll make me want to cry :/
