OT: Master of Magic 2 - now looking quite likely

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
What "hoops and obstacles"? How hard is it to have a net-connection, launch the Stardock Central app (SC), and then watch it download and auto-install whatever the latest patch is? Or are you referring to the *registration* process to initially set up SC? Once it's set up it's essentially brainless. And if you don't want to deal with SC, you can always just go to their site via browser and download the patch (or get it from some other site).

There is absolutely nothing I loathe more than being told I have to install YET ANOTHER PIECE OF CRAP just to download a freaking file! Frankly, this simply adds yet another point of failure to the computer, as if Windoze wasn't unstable enough. I don't *WANT* another piece of crap which may or may not conflict with something I actually want installed on my computer! I want my freaking patch.

And trying to download it elsewhere? At the time I was still trying to put up with the game, this was a royal pain in the ***. You certainly couldn't simply download it off their webpage. I couldn't even *FIND* it on their webpage. In fact, the only place I could actually find the patch at all was from piracy sites.

I ask myself, why should I pay for the game so I can have to resort to this? I have since returned the game(which in itself required a loud argument and several shots to be fired). This game is entirely not worth the hassle, and I dread the idea of going through this BS with the proposed MOM2. I think this time, I'm definitely going to exercise "try before you buy".