I just downloaded something I can't play

[Assassin Xaero]

I've bought games, like Joint Operations, that my computer couldn't run before. Not really along the same lines, but I bought Half-Life 2 Episode 1 on sale one day at Circuit City before ever having played any HL game and knowing nothing about them. It worked, but I didn't know what the hell was going on the entire game... Oh, and I got Gears of War for PC for Christmas a few years back and couldn't play it because my monitor didn't support it's minimum resolution or something stupid like that.

My PC (now) can run Metro 2033 and Crysis at max setting on 1680x1050, so never really have any system requirement problems.

 

[MaVeN1337]

downloaded Dungeon Keeper a few times and that didn't work...I love that game

Oh god yes =]

 

[Thunderhorse31]

That's why I bought Undead Nightmare on disk. Same price, but now I don't need RDR to play. Everybody wins.

Except you, I guess

 

[Vibhor]

Bought Sims 2 expansion without the game itself.

 

[Mordwyl]

I just bought Darksiders and I can't even run it on my PC. The specs seem a little too daunting.

 

[Draco Ardel]

Christmas last year I bought Shattered Union on steam because it sounded interesting and was super cheap. I have a pretty good computer so didnt even look at system specs as it came out several years ago. Incompatible with Vista. it was only $7 but still annoyed the crap out of me.

 

[Antari]

It hasn't happened to me in years ... but atleast in this case, getting the game itself, isn't such a bad thing.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I bought Hellboy The Science of Evil. Yeah.

 

[Diablo2000]

Never happen to me, because before I buy or download a game I make sure that my PC runs it...

 

[KingGolem]

I downloaded the original Humble Indie Bundle way back when. Exactly ONE game of the whole bundle worked (if you're curious, it was And Yet it Moves, but I think that might have been a bonus).

 

[Daedalus1942]

I'm new to downloading things off of PSN and I bought Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. Little did I know I had to own the game, which I don't, and now I can't play.

Has this ever happened to you.

Yup, bought Half-life 2 when it first came out and couldn't run it. I took it back, after tying it to steam account, not even realising that meant i still owned it in a digital format.
I still have the game, but they accepted it as at the time we were all fairly new to the drm of steam and i had no idea it meant I'd effectively used the key and it wasn't transferable.
Essentially i got half-life 2 without paying for it.
-Tabs<3-

 

[Superior Mind]

A rule I learned about gaming before I even started gaming was that an expansion was just that; an expansion. As such it requires the base game to play. This has very very few exceptions but it is one of the first things you check before considering buying any expansion.

Sucks you had to learn the hard way but lesson learned right?

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

I downloaded Rumble Fighter to find out it's not available outside of America. Took about 15% of my monthly download quota, although it didn't cost me money. Still, that was a pain.

But I have a better one: I wanted to get games off of the Xbox 360's indie developers thing, so I bought some Microsoft Points and tried to buy a few. I was then rejected, and told I had to subscribe first. So reluctantly I did, although I found it odd considering most downloads run on a free membership. It then tells me that the indie service is not available in Australia.

I then find out that you can't simply cancel a subscription, you have to call them and convince them to shut it off. Well, I found this out 3 months later, after I lost all my money to a subscription I didn't use at all. A month later, my account is banned for lack of funds, which was odd considering I could just make a silver account with no problems at all. About 4 months later, they removed my subscription and unbanned my account.

That was a lot of money wasted when you consider I was trying to buy a $1 game. It would have been nice if they didn't keep telling me to pay for things BEFORE telling me I couldn't get them at all. And thus began my steady hatred for Microsoft.

 

[onewheeled]

Downloaded S.T.A.L.K.E.R shadow of pirpyt and my computer doesn't have the graphics card to run it so i'll have to wait until i get a new computer.

Same situation for me. My computer, despite having an ATI Radeon 3600 HD card that's around two years old (came with the family computer), it can run Shadow of Chernobyl at great settings without a single problem. But the same doesn't go for Call of Pripyat (I bought the two in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle that was on sale on Halloween), where the textures look like shit, the framerate drops to a just a couple frames per second, and it runs like absolute crap. This is with all the settings on low, by the way.

 

[SimuLord]

I'm new to downloading things off of PSN and I bought Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. Little did I know I had to own the game, which I don't, and now I can't play.

Has this ever happened to you.

Yup, bought Half-life 2 when it first came out and couldn't run it. I took it back, after tying it to steam account, not even realising that meant i still owned it in a digital format.
I still have the game, but they accepted it as at the time we were all fairly new to the drm of steam and i had no idea it meant I'd effectively used the key and it wasn't transferable.
Essentially i got half-life 2 without paying for it.
-Tabs<3-

And even better, whoever bought the game "used" then had to encounter the then-new technology of authentication DRM killing the secondary market. That person then bought a PlayStation 2 and never went back to PC gaming and probably still to this day hates Valve and Steam.

Nice job breaking it, hero.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I'm new to downloading things off of PSN and I bought Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. Little did I know I had to own the game, which I don't, and now I can't play.

Has this ever happened to you.

Yup, bought Half-life 2 when it first came out and couldn't run it. I took it back, after tying it to steam account, not even realising that meant i still owned it in a digital format.
I still have the game, but they accepted it as at the time we were all fairly new to the drm of steam and i had no idea it meant I'd effectively used the key and it wasn't transferable.
Essentially i got half-life 2 without paying for it.
-Tabs<3-

And even better, whoever bought the game "used" then had to encounter the then-new technology of authentication DRM killing the secondary market. That person then bought a PlayStation 2 and never went back to PC gaming and probably still to this day hates Valve and Steam.

Nice job breaking it, hero.

It's "heroine" and also I had no idea of the DRM then.
I merely registered it, and then found it didn't run, so I took it back (not knowing I still digitally had it).
Logged in to play Counter-strike and saw I still had it >.<
I did nothing wrong. EB accepted it back with no questions!
-Tabs<3-

 

[BabyRaptor]

What possessed you to think you could play DLC for a game without owning the game?

 

[Communist partisan]

I bought CoD4 two weeks before the release of MW2 for PC and the MP didin't work and on my other computer it constantly crashed so after that I got myself a box, xbox that is.