Bioshock is Failure
Aug. 21st, 2007 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demonicgerbilCame home from a pointlessly long meeting. Put my Bioshock DVD in the drive. Ate delicious Chick-Fil-A nuggets while it installed. Spent 2 hours trying to get it to work.
On behalf of gamers everywhere whose computers are above the minimum requirements, and on behalf of shattered dreams everywhere, I thank you 2K Games for making your brand name unforgettable to me. I will never again purchase anything you publish, develop, or glance at. Which is sad because that means your company has tarnished brands ranging from The Elder Scrolls to Civilization in my eyes and I will never again contribute money to your coffers by supporting those games, despite how much I may be anticipating future installments. You may have my money for Bioshock, but I assure you, your company will not see a single dime from me ever again.
I jumped through your hoops. I entered the pointless serial number, I let you invade my privacy and activated the software online, I let the auto-patcher run to completion. And 20 minutes later, all your software wants to do is give me a little splash screen followed by the standard Windows crash message? I don't think so. Especially not after 4 other tries at installing it.
I scope out your Official Forum and see tons and tons of complaints. It's ridiculous.
I see this post:
No anti-aliasing? And there may be faulty DVDs? My SLI'd graphics cards may or may not work? Shader 2.0 isn't supported thus meaning that pretty much anyone with an ATI card can't run the game?
At least most of the people have problems that let them get past the quick splash screen thing and can get to the main menu. I can't even get that far. And I'm not expending any more of my life on this fool's quest. When you all are ready to give me a full refund and deliver a game that actually works as advertised out of the box, feel free to drop me a line.
On behalf of gamers everywhere whose computers are above the minimum requirements, and on behalf of shattered dreams everywhere, I thank you 2K Games for making your brand name unforgettable to me. I will never again purchase anything you publish, develop, or glance at. Which is sad because that means your company has tarnished brands ranging from The Elder Scrolls to Civilization in my eyes and I will never again contribute money to your coffers by supporting those games, despite how much I may be anticipating future installments. You may have my money for Bioshock, but I assure you, your company will not see a single dime from me ever again.
I jumped through your hoops. I entered the pointless serial number, I let you invade my privacy and activated the software online, I let the auto-patcher run to completion. And 20 minutes later, all your software wants to do is give me a little splash screen followed by the standard Windows crash message? I don't think so. Especially not after 4 other tries at installing it.
I scope out your Official Forum and see tons and tons of complaints. It's ridiculous.
I see this post:
This is the year 2007, and you're trying to sell me a game that DOESN'T let me enable AA? Sorry, the game would look 10x better with AA, but the way it is now is horribly jaggy, and I will not be buying the game.
No anti-aliasing? And there may be faulty DVDs? My SLI'd graphics cards may or may not work? Shader 2.0 isn't supported thus meaning that pretty much anyone with an ATI card can't run the game?
At least most of the people have problems that let them get past the quick splash screen thing and can get to the main menu. I can't even get that far. And I'm not expending any more of my life on this fool's quest. When you all are ready to give me a full refund and deliver a game that actually works as advertised out of the box, feel free to drop me a line.