Are you forced to use any awful "services"?
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hey i had the exact same experience with those 3 games xD also bulletstorm. its fine if you have a lovely perfect internet connection, but those games are the kind u play when you dont have a lovely perfect internet connection.. sept maybe dw2, but ret doesnt use it 
also for this one etextbook i bought (actually rented) i have to use "CourseSmart"'s proprietary reading interface, which is just awful. if you dont make sure to turn off the app before you disconnect from the internet (so that when you restart the app you can login in offline mode) it will delete the book from your tablet. So basically if you walk out of wifi range it deletes the thing that let you still read the book if you were to walk out of wifi range. Then do you just redownload it? no of course not, you only get 1 download per device, so you have to call tech support to have them reset your download limit to be able to download the book their shitty app deleted in the first place. Thats not even touching on the fact that the actual reader itself is just a crappy version of ibooks' pdf reader, that uses twice the power. Ive never burned through a full battery charge with ibooks, but itll last 12+ hours of continuous use at 100% brightnes; the coursesmart app is 6 hours tops
i ended up just getting the pdf version of it (not from the publisher) and reading it through ibooks, so i can just read the book i paid for instead of going through all the publisher's bullshit
also for this one etextbook i bought (actually rented) i have to use "CourseSmart"'s proprietary reading interface, which is just awful. if you dont make sure to turn off the app before you disconnect from the internet (so that when you restart the app you can login in offline mode) it will delete the book from your tablet. So basically if you walk out of wifi range it deletes the thing that let you still read the book if you were to walk out of wifi range. Then do you just redownload it? no of course not, you only get 1 download per device, so you have to call tech support to have them reset your download limit to be able to download the book their shitty app deleted in the first place. Thats not even touching on the fact that the actual reader itself is just a crappy version of ibooks' pdf reader, that uses twice the power. Ive never burned through a full battery charge with ibooks, but itll last 12+ hours of continuous use at 100% brightnes; the coursesmart app is 6 hours tops
i ended up just getting the pdf version of it (not from the publisher) and reading it through ibooks, so i can just read the book i paid for instead of going through all the publisher's bullshit
Steam and Origin both need to tell me what games are new when ever I exit a game. I don't like that but I wouldn't say awful.
zdog jr said:
You don't have to use GFWL in Bioshock 2 if you don't care about the multiplayer.lRookiel said:
I guess the worst service I have is this cell-phone service of mine. College town and it's no bars everywhere.
Turn off the notifications?Eddie the head said:
Just GFWL on a few games I own. It's bad enough on its own, but the real issue is that I'm playing these games on Steam by default. GTFO Microsoft, it's already handled.
I like Steam just fine, I've never had any memorable issues with it unless it involved the aforementioned offender that barged its way in.
I like Steam just fine, I've never had any memorable issues with it unless it involved the aforementioned offender that barged its way in.
The company my mother works for pays for our internet connection so we get it free. Unfortunately, the ISP we have to use is BT, who is just about the worst ISP in the history of everything. They've always been pretty bad but over the past couple of months they've gotten absolutely terrible. I have to reset our router about half a dozen times a day. So thats one shitty service I have to use.
If we can include non-digital services, then London-Midlands Rail (the train company I use to get to college everyday) is pretty shitty as well.
If we can include non-digital services, then London-Midlands Rail (the train company I use to get to college everyday) is pretty shitty as well.
I wouldn't say I was forced to use it but... I decided to buy a new laptop and the one I wanted had Windows 8 as an operating system. Now, if I want to waste some time on Solitaire or mahjong like I used to I have to connect it to my xbox live account. No thanks.
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I'm forced to use Norton Antivirus because my school's network required either Norton or McAfee in order to connect to the internet, and McAfee is probably the most useless antivirus software ever created. I've finished school now but I still have norton for another 6 months, after that I'll finally be able to switch to something else.
"Forced" is a very strong word.
Nobody's putting a gun to my head and saying "USE ORIGIN!!" That doesn't stop it being a pile of shit that I have to endure to play some games, but "forced" isn't quite right - I still have another option open to me.
Nobody's putting a gun to my head and saying "USE ORIGIN!!" That doesn't stop it being a pile of shit that I have to endure to play some games, but "forced" isn't quite right - I still have another option open to me.
Empire: Total War has a mandatory connection to a unique unchangeable steam account. It causes me an unbelievable amount of hassle, my brother never uses Steam, but it's his account and an old email address so if we stop playing it for a while we've got to spend half a day trying to dig up antique user information just to play a game we have the disk for.
And of course we can't resell it, so yeah. I don#t get much use out of Steam in general, being able to download and redownload things is the only real benefit I get and so all Steam does for me is add a couple of seconds onto the loading time of the games I've got with it, so I'm not a huge fan, but at least it's more understandable with a downloadable game. Less so for a third-party disc game.
Funnily enough Origin has caused me less problems. It doesn't seem to load up in the way that Steam does and I haven't (yet) had an EA game Origin locked, never mind a non EA game
And of course we can't resell it, so yeah. I don#t get much use out of Steam in general, being able to download and redownload things is the only real benefit I get and so all Steam does for me is add a couple of seconds onto the loading time of the games I've got with it, so I'm not a huge fan, but at least it's more understandable with a downloadable game. Less so for a third-party disc game.
Funnily enough Origin has caused me less problems. It doesn't seem to load up in the way that Steam does and I haven't (yet) had an EA game Origin locked, never mind a non EA game
Steam, Origin, and Windows Live are all installed on my computer right now. I didn't want to install them but I didn't have a choice, they act as a drawbridge between me and my games. A drawbridge that puts popup adds on my desktop when I use it.
I wouldn't mind so much if I had actually used these services to buy games, but I buy all my games on disk.
I wouldn't mind so much if I had actually used these services to buy games, but I buy all my games on disk.
Ditto for Games for Windows Live. Awful, needless Steam knock-off, arbitrarily restrictive (after purchase we have to download within 30 days?! I can't just make purchases on a whim for the future...?) and just all-round infuriating. Terrible 'service'.
...If this counts, the bus service around here is pretty dire, and I have no choice but to use it. Oftentimes they just don't turn up, or turn up 15 minutes late.
...If this counts, the bus service around here is pretty dire, and I have no choice but to use it. Oftentimes they just don't turn up, or turn up 15 minutes late.