Game Fail the Second
Posted: April 19, 2009 at 3:29 am | Tags: DRM, errors, steam
Well, it has been a few days now and I have not yet succeeded in getting my brand-spanking new copy of F.E.A.R 2 working – which makes a review rather challenging. Here’s the one thing I have ready to feedback on -
1.) Every time a developer makes you use Steam to install, activate and play a boxed, retail copy of a game the Divine Wildebeest of Gaming Justice cries.
There has been installing, and verifying and patching and deleting and much viewing of troubleshooting forums but what it gets down to is I can’t play a 100% legitimate copy of a single-player computer game because of insurmountable problems with an entirely unnecessary online DRM system.
I have previously had major problems with games purchased through Steam (HL2, Portal, etc) but they somehow seemed less heinous as I didn’t have a physical copy of the game in my hand. It is frustrating enough to have a games re-sellabilty destroyed through having to run it through Steam, without the game not working entirely because of it. I sometimes wonder if Valve’s platform might be more reliable if it actually ran on steam power…
Oh well, time to give up and move on to another game. I might try to revisit F.E.A.R 2 when my patience is renewed enough to try getting it working again.
