Steam & UBI

On the face of it Steam is a great idea.

In reality, on new game days their servers are overwhelmed. They never seem to plan for the inevitable much needed extra capacity.

Then there are the numerous very odd bugs that usually require the end user to engage in local butchery of their own PC settings & applications in order to satisfy the god of steam.

And since you cannot play new games until the god of steam lets you, you can be stuck for some indeterminate time waiting for 'activation'.

I have just acquired Dark Messiah. No place on the box does it indicate that I need to use Steam to play the single player game. There is a comment regarding broadband for multiplayer, but no indication of a dependancy for single player.

Currently the god of steam is downloading for Dark Messiah. It is currently at 3% and running at 479 kb/s. Having just installed 7GB from the DVD why do I need to (it appears) download the game contents all over again? And yes this is for the single player game.

Perhaps I should have avoided the multi-player element but curiousity got the better of me.

And then there is UBI. I have an account with UBI. It is quite old and I cannot remember my login details. So I attempted to retrieve said password. I was told 'no such account'. So naturally I attempted to create a new account and was told 'already an account with that email address'.

UBI ahd EA have reputations for being incompetant. I guess this remains true. It is a shame that these companies have developed such arrogance that they have utterly lost a customer focus (assuming they ever had one in the first place).

I HATE PCs

My lack of posting is down to losing the disk on what is now my main PC. The Seagate on it went tits up and that was that.

It now has a new disk and I am working from it now. But all is not well.

For starters all my Native Instruments software refuses to register. 'Error ID 5' is the result and so far NI have not provided me with a solution. So in due course my software will cease to function. Annoyed? Oh yes.