30+ hours (almost 5 days,over)to get what i paid for, congratulations Origin...

[jpoon]

Damn man, i feel sorry for you, not sure why you would ever pay $80 for this game. I definitely don't see it being worth anything close to that unless it came bundled with about 6 months of game-time. I'm letting my subscription expire, not a big fan of the game, after hitting 50 it goes downhill really fast.

Hope you get that code today, I'd be really frustrated at that point.

Edit: Just saw that last post of yours, damn I'd be fuming too. Screw origin, you did the right thing by calling mastercard. They don't deserve a dime of your money.

 

[Iron Criterion]

Ah First World Problems you strike again!

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Blame EA those bastards, luckily you don't need Orgin for SWTOR so just buy it. I hate Orgin, they really are incompentant . Swtor itself is fun, in a lot of ways better than WOW.

 

[Mekado]

Damn man, i feel sorry for you, not sure why you would ever pay $80 for this game. I definitely don't see it being worth anything close to that unless it came bundled with about 6 months of game-time. I'm letting my subscription expire, not a big fan of the game, after hitting 50 it goes downhill really fast.

Hope you get that code today, I'd be really frustrated at that point.

Edit: Just saw that last post of yours, damn I'd be fuming too. Screw origin, you did the right thing by calling mastercard. They don't deserve a dime of your money.

Yeah 80$ seemed expensive but it was "reasonable", now i wouldn't even pay 30$ for it...

 

[Starke]

Why the fuck did you buy with your credit card? That's for EMERGENCY USE ONLY YOU GIT! Jesus, you don't belong here, spending your credit card money on games and raging, thinking we'll give a fuck.

Because issuing and receiving charge-backs in the event of something going catastrophically wrong tend to be easier to manage with credit card companies.

The thing is, the original poster isn't talking about the credit card funds as if they aren't real. He isn't saying "oh, well, it's only credit card money, so that's not like real money", he's treating it as "this is my money", which is a much healthier outlook on the whole than many people have.

If you (and I don't mean you personally) can't properly process that funds on your credit card are actually part of your financial gestalt, then, yes, your comment that it's for "EMERGENCY USE ONLY" is entirely the correct one. For some people, it makes more sense to process certain kinds of transactions on credit cards that they pay down on, which is what the OP seems to be doing.

The reasons for that vary, I get fuel discounts on a card I keep at a zero balance, so I pay for my gas that way, and then pay it off online later in the week, there's usually better fraud protection on credit cards than debit cards, meaning online transactions tend to be safer if processed by credit. And so on.

 

[zumbledum]

its often faster and cheaper to go through amazon. sometimes they even email the codes along with your confirmation

 

[Rednog]

The amusing thing is stuff like this is exactly why people use digital distribution services, to avoid all the pending stuff and whatever gets between you and installing the game as quickly as possible.

Thats why I dont understand Origin and GFWL. For DD services, they seem hell bent on making your purchase as complicated and annoying as possible.

Good thing Steam never had issues with running out of codes and needing a good chunk of time to get new ones.

...Except, you know, several times that happened.

Sorry, it's just funny seeing Steam consistently left off the list when the same thing's happened with them.

I have 44 games on Steam and I never once had any trouble purchasing them and getting them to work. (Apart from slow download speeds during the sales.)

I have 3 games on GFWL and I had to contact support to get them running each and every time.

So no, it is not funny to see Steam get left off that list. It doesnt belong there. GFWL earned its spot tenfold. From what I have heard, Origin is on its way too.

This thread is a prime example of what is wrong with the escapist.
Complete and utter fanboyism.
Seriously people criticize Origin and other Digital Distribution services and are like lol stupid other services why don't they learn from Steam.
Then people with common sense come along and are like, but wait Steam has had the same problems before and still does.
Fanboy response, you're argument is stupid, I never had that problem so those problems never ever happened, to anyone.
But the OP has a problem with a company that the fanboy doesn't like OMG everyone is having a problem with this service, it is never going to work, burn down their offices, drag the employees to the street and shoot them in the head and use their families as slaves as repentance!

 

[SajuukKhar]

Saying you haven't had problems with downloading/purchasing games from Steam while you have with other services =/= fanboyism.

I don't have any problems with The Steam store myself but I don't particularly like everything that Steam does.

I also find the real problem with the escapist to be people who take normal comments and say "YOUR'E A FANBOY FOR SAYING THAT" all the time.

 

[Signa]

The amusing thing is stuff like this is exactly why people use digital distribution services, to avoid all the pending stuff and whatever gets between you and installing the game as quickly as possible.

Thats why I dont understand Origin and GFWL. For DD services, they seem hell bent on making your purchase as complicated and annoying as possible.

Good thing Steam never had issues with running out of codes and needing a good chunk of time to get new ones.

...Except, you know, several times that happened.

That's completely different. Those weren't Valve games that ran out of codes, it was the failings of the companies behind the games that ran out of keys that caused those issues. EA owns all the games on Origin and it's up to them to keep the service for their games running. If you must be mad at that situation[footnote]which I'd argue that you're acting like an entitled gamer. Those games were on super-dirt-cheap-sale, so making a wait time part of the cost of those games wasn't a whole lot to ask. This guy paid full price and still had to wait.[/footnote] be mad at the companies that sold their games on Steam for a super sale and didn't give out enough copies for Steam to sell.

 

[Starke]

If you must be mad at that situation[footnote]which I'd argue that you're acting like an entitled gamer. Those games were on super-dirt-cheap-sale, so making a wait time part of the cost of those games wasn't a whole lot to ask. This guy paid full price and still had to wait.[/footnote] be mad at the companies that sold their games on Steam for a super sale and didn't give out enough copies for Steam to sell.

Honestly, one of the elements that turned me off of GFWL as a storefront was when I picked of Age of Empires 3 for cheap and then found out that I wouldn't be able to play it for a couple weeks because of an out of keys screw up.[footnote]As a random aside, this really shouldn't have happened, but, whatever.[/footnote]

When I posted about it somewhere, I think here, it was annoying, but I certainly wasn't throwing a tantrum over it, and in turn got accused of being an "entitled gamer". Where I'm going with this is the whole "entitled gamer" accusation, while there's some validity (like people throwing tantrums over the Terraria devs moving on to other projects,) there's a lot of people out there, like in this case (where it's a hefty amount of money and really shitty service) or mine (where I was pretty damn apathetic and just warning others that if they did buy it, there'd be a "delivery delay", but that it was probably worth it regardless) where people are way too quick to go off and claim it's an entitlement problem.

And goddamn that was a train wreck of a paragraph...

Anyway, trying again, I'm sick to death of people accusing everyone that disagrees with their personal fandom as "entitled little shits" (and no Signa, this accusation isn't directed at you). There is an issue of entitled gamers, but as a whole the gaming community at large is way too gleeful in assigning it where it doesn't belong.

Anyway, sorry, not trying to hijack the thread, it's just the whole entitled crap is annoying the hell out of me.

 

[Signa]

If you must be mad at that situation[footnote]which I'd argue that you're acting like an entitled gamer. Those games were on super-dirt-cheap-sale, so making a wait time part of the cost of those games wasn't a whole lot to ask. This guy paid full price and still had to wait.[/footnote] be mad at the companies that sold their games on Steam for a super sale and didn't give out enough copies for Steam to sell.

Honestly, one of the elements that turned me off of GFWL as a storefront was when I picked of Age of Empires 3 for cheap and then found out that I wouldn't be able to play it for a couple weeks because of an out of keys screw up.[footnote]As a random aside, this really shouldn't have happened, but, whatever.[/footnote]

When I posted about it somewhere, I think here, it was annoying, but I certainly wasn't throwing a tantrum over it, and in turn got accused of being an "entitled gamer". Where I'm going with this is the whole "entitled gamer" accusation, while there's some validity (like people throwing tantrums over the Terraria devs moving on to other projects,) there's a lot of people out there, like in this case (where it's a hefty amount of money and really shitty service) or mine (where I was pretty damn apathetic and just warning others that if they did buy it, there'd be a "delivery delay", but that it was probably worth it regardless) where people are way too quick to go off and claim it's an entitlement problem.

And goddamn that was a train wreck of a paragraph...

Anyway, trying again, I'm sick to death of people accusing everyone that disagrees with their personal fandom as "entitled little shits" (and no Signa, this accusation isn't directed at you). There is an issue of entitled gamers, but as a whole the gaming community at large is way too gleeful in assigning it where it doesn't belong.

Anyway, sorry, not trying to hijack the thread, it's just the whole entitled crap is annoying the hell out of me.

Agreed. I see that title thrown around all too often. I only used it this time because I'd like to *****-slap anyone bitching that they got a slightly aged triple-A game for $2 and can't play it RIGHT NOW. It's annoying, I agree, but show a little patience and appreciation for the deal.

As for your GFWL experience, I wouldn't have held it to you to complain. It was a MS game on a MS store, so there really isn't much of an excuse. Sure, it was a massive sale, so MS deserves a little patience, but having CD keys for the games they make on a store they run is just a flawed concept.

 

[DaHero]

Why the fuck did you buy with your credit card? That's for EMERGENCY USE ONLY YOU GIT! Jesus, you don't belong here, spending your credit card money on games and raging, thinking we'll give a fuck.

Did you ever stop to think that he puts games on card so he can pay them off and build his credit score?

 

[Loop Stricken]

Why the fuck did you buy with your credit card? That's for EMERGENCY USE ONLY YOU GIT! Jesus, you don't belong here, spending your credit card money on games and raging, thinking we'll give a fuck.

Did you ever stop to think that he puts games on card so he can pay them off and build his credit score?

Or that using a credit card doesn't immediately necessitate that you're constantly overdrawn and living off said credit.

 

[Right Hook]

Goodness. Hopefully they don't mean 24 BUSINESS hours, because it's the weekend and that would mean you'd have to wait until monday.

Also, never heard of a process like that, having to wait several hours for a code after you pay.

Neither did i, 30+ hours to manufacture an authorization code ? no wonder the old republic's numbers are so-so if we have to go through Origin's worse-than-awful service...

Sometimes I really wonder if there isn't some super rich, creepy guy sitting at the top of a high rise, who just goes online and jerks it to stuff like this. Somebody has to be getting off on this, this is torture, there is no reason for it except sick pleasure.

 

[Mekado]

Goodness. Hopefully they don't mean 24 BUSINESS hours, because it's the weekend and that would mean you'd have to wait until monday.

Also, never heard of a process like that, having to wait several hours for a code after you pay.

Neither did i, 30+ hours to manufacture an authorization code ? no wonder the old republic's numbers are so-so if we have to go through Origin's worse-than-awful service...

Sometimes I really wonder if there isn't some super rich, creepy guy sitting at the top of a high rise, who just goes online and jerks it to stuff like this. Somebody has to be getting off on this, this is torture, there is no reason for it except sick pleasure.

There's a mental image right there

I personally chalk it up to utmost incompetence and/or not caring at all.

 

[Something Amyss]

maybe because steam is run by valve who are angels and gives our games to us on a gold platter and ea are devils who sold their souls and are trying to get you to do the same /sarcasm

Well, there is that....

It's because steam is a good service, they do have errors like these companies but they're rarer so people are willing to look past them. Oh and steam have major sales every other month and give away free games for little to no reason.(I got the witcher and counter strike this christmas, i know my friend got deus ex HR).

Actually, Steam errors like this were far more common and widespread. We're talking one or two people complaining about a lack of activation codes, when Steam has sold out and left thousands in the lurch.

Steam deals and freebies are not "little to no reason." They want to be a monopoly.

I have 44 games on Steam and I never once had any trouble purchasing them and getting them to work. (Apart from slow download speeds during the sales.)

Well, it's never happened to you, therefore those widespread outages that were actually confirmed never happened. I forgot.

That's completely different. Those weren't Valve games that ran out of codes, it was the failings of the companies behind the games that ran out of keys that caused those issues.

Except the complaint was that this was an issue of inconvenience in digital distribution services, and that doesn't change because it was "someone else's fault."

Sorry I hurt people's feelings by applying logic evenly, instead of convenient excuses because I like one service and hate all the others.

 

[Something Amyss]

This thread is a prime example of what is wrong with the escapist.
Complete and utter fanboyism.
Seriously people criticize Origin and other Digital Distribution services and are like lol stupid other services why don't they learn from Steam.
Then people with common sense come along and are like, but wait Steam has had the same problems before and still does.
Fanboy response, you're argument is stupid, I never had that problem so those problems never ever happened, to anyone.
But the OP has a problem with a company that the fanboy doesn't like OMG everyone is having a problem with this service, it is never going to work, burn down their offices, drag the employees to the street and shoot them in the head and use their families as slaves as repentance!

Good God, I think I love you.

EA isn't allowed to have difficulty with one person.

Valve is allowed to have difficulty thousands of people with not just impunity, but praise.

YAY!