I purchased Dawn of War and all of the expansions that came out for it. I loved the series. So when I saw they had a Dawn of War II, I was pretty excited. So I bought a pre-order box from Best Buy and finally picked up the game tonight.
I started the installation and the first thing I noticed is that the install tells you that you need to follow 6 steps to play the game. The first couple of steps were something about installing and creating accounts for Steam and Windows Live.
I immediately knew I was going to hate the game. I ran into problems with Steam and Half Life 2 a few years ago. Let me explain. I had about an hour to play HL2 one night after a long week at work. I just wanted some mindless FPS action. I was playing the single player mode trying to resume where I left off. But no, Steam needed to be updated. So it forced me to patch the game which took 45 minutes to download, decrypt, and install. Total waste of time. I swore to never buy another game that used Steam ever again.
I had no idea what would be in store for me to just play the single player mode. I assumed that this game would function like the old games. Totally wrong. I couldn't even get passed the install of Steam. I am guessing that is because I wasn't connected to the internet.
I don't want to install Steam. I don't want to have a Steam account to play a single player OFFLINE game. I don't want to install Windows Live. I don't want to have a Windows Live account to play a single player OFFLINE game. You guys are KILLING the PC game market by forcing your paying customers to jump through hoops just to install and play your fucking games! When are you going to learn? Seriously....when?
On top of that, what a horrible technology decision. You make the install of your game dependent on not 1, but 2 third party applications that are AT BEST a nuisance for your customers and force them to create accounts. Seriously? What genius decided this was a good idea?
So now that I opened the game and learned the hard way, I and stuck with a $50 coaster. I am so sick and tired of this type of behavior from the devs and publishers. I am so sick and tired of being treated like a criminal that I am totally done with you all. I am going to sell this game on eBay and recoup what I can and then I will download the cracked version.
The moral of the story is the pirated version of these games are better, easier to use, install properly, run properly, and are free. Why on God's green earth would ANYONE prefer to pay for a game that is difficult to install, difficult to run, problems with all the required components, and costs $50+ dollars? The answer is they wouldn't. I shouldn't have to research all the stupid, asinine shit you idiots are loading up your games with. So I am officially done trying to be the good consumer. You only get burned and you end up with a piece of shit application and the knowledge that you gave someone your hard earned money who doesn't appreciate you but resents you. *** that. *** them. *** all of you stupid fucking douche bags. As much as I love games, I am willing to give them up to see you all crash and burn in your own stupidity.
So don't buy this piece of shit game. I can't even get past the step 1 Steam install. But after what I saw, I wouldn't want to install the rest anyway.