Ever felt cheated?

[Nemusus]

So have you guys ever felt cheated by the gaming industry? If so, what happened?

For me, the worst case just happened. I just a new PC, and decided to christen it in the fires of the Steam Sale. I grabbed Far Cry 3 for 50% off and set about downloading it. It finally finishes, I get all excited and ready to play... and then uPlay pops up. Which in itself isn't too bad, I don't mind Origin that much and I doubt Uplay would be considerably worse. So I sign up for an account, and BOOM. The Ubisoft server is unavailable. So I've been bumming around, clicking "Register" for about 2 hours, unable to play the game that I've bought with my own damn money, while a couple of mates are playing AC4 and one literally just texted me to play FC3 multiplayer with him. So, I'm unable to play, while seemingly everyone else is fine.

Step up your game Ubisoft.

So yeah, what bad experiences have you guys had?

 

[Sp3ratus]

inb4 Mass Effect 3 ending.

Anyway, Sleeping Dogs on Steam. I bought it a while ago, when it was on sale, but I can't for the life of me get it to work. I've tried a bunch of different solutions posted on the forums, tried reinstalling it, rebooting, running it like it was different operating systems, the lot, nothing seems to work. I spent a couple of hours trying to get it to work before I finally gave up and moved on to a different game. I'll probably come back and try it again at some time, but for now, I really cba to fiddle around with it anymore. There doesn't seem to be much effort on the developer's part and/or Steam to get it to work, so I do feel a bit cheated. I really want to play it.

In honesty though, that's not so much the games industry as a whole, but rather one developer/one platform, but stil...

 

[RJ 17]

I'll go with Blizzard's decision to split StarCraft II in to 3 games. I'm one of those players that's actually more interested in the story campaigns rather than the competitive multiplayer, and as such to me it seemed like they were following the route of WoW to milk such a long-awaited sequel for as much money as they could get away with. Yes, yes, I know, "The campaigns in these games are as long as the entirety of the first games!" I also know that the majority of people that I've discussed the game with on this very site have said "Most of the story missions are essentially just filler and could be removed without losing anything from the plot. In reality, there's only about 10 missions that are plot-critical." Well those 10 missions equate to the 10 or so missions that formed the campaigns for the original games. So it still seems like a money-milking expedition if you ask me.

I waited over a decade for SCII, and here they are breaking the campaigns (apparently needlessly) into 3 separate games. I still remember the press release they put out when this decision was announced: "We just want to do so much with these games, there's no way we could fit it into one!" Oh fuck you, Blizzard. To me that just translates to "We know you've been waiting over a decade for this game, so we're going to use that hype and anticipation to charge you three separate times for it! Enjoy your filler episodes to justify our decision!"

So yeah, much like the Final Fantasy franchise: I washed my hands of Blizzard, and now I laugh every time a bit of bad news about them pops up.

 

[Smeatza]

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I had a similar thing. Bought Driver: San Francisco on the steam summer sale. Installed it, put up with UPlay and tried to have a game. But for some reason the game kept freezing for 5-10 seconds every half minute or so.
Turns out UPlay was checking if the game was still a legit copy every 30 fucking seconds and the fact the servers were so busy at the time was causing freezing for everybody.
I tried everything I could but there wasn't a damn thing me or anybody else could do to fix it.

Fuck UPlay, at least Origin is functional.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I felt cheated when I bought the season pass for Borderlands 2. Never again.

 

[el grandos tabetos]

I'll go with Blizzard's decision to split StarCraft II in to 3 games. I'm one of those players that's actually more interested in the story campaigns rather than the competitive multiplayer, and as such to me it seemed like they were following the route of WoW to milk such a long-awaited sequel for as much money as they could get away with. Yes, yes, I know, "The campaigns in these games are as long as the entirety of the first games!" I also know that the majority of people that I've discussed the game with on this very site have said "Most of the story missions are essentially just filler and could be removed without losing anything from the plot. In reality, there's only about 10 missions that are plot-critical." Well those 10 missions equate to the 10 or so missions that formed the campaigns for the original games. So it still seems like a money-milking expedition if you ask me.

I waited over a decade for SCII, and here they are breaking the campaigns (apparently needlessly) into 3 separate games. I still remember the press release they put out when this decision was announced: "We just want to do so much with these games, there's no way we could fit it into one!" Oh fuck you, Blizzard. To me that just translates to "We know you've been waiting over a decade for this game, so we're going to use that hype and anticipation to charge you three separate times for it! Enjoy your filler episodes to justify our decision!"

So yeah, much like the Final Fantasy franchise: I washed my hands of Blizzard, and now I laugh every time a bit of bad news about them pops up.

Not to mention Heart of the Swarm had the most god awful writing and cringe inducing dialogue I'd ever seen, even by video game standards it was terrible.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Final Fantasy 7 to 13, excluding 9, which I haven't played. I liked FF because it had well-written characters, expansive worlds, and interesting universes.

7 was about extremist "hippies" (read: terrorists) who ooze angst and stupidity, 8 was about an idiot with bad hair who may or may not be dead after all, 10 was a good game that needed some improvement... and then Tidus is a huge issue in himself, let's not even get started on 10-2, 11 and 12 were absoloute crap, and 13 officially killed the franchise.

I think Square Enix is just blowing its money because it can, and is just trying to close its door, using these poor excuses of games to fend off enraged fans.

 

[Foolery]

Not particularly. I try to get as much information about a game or product before I purchase it. I bought a dualshock 4 recently to use on my PC, and discovered they changed the charging cable to micro usb. No big deal, I have a cable it's just a bit short. So I bought a bluetooth usb adapter to connect it instead. Hmm, what else? Arkham Origins was a let-down, but I didn't have high hopes anyway.

 

[Auron225]

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Yeeaah... I think those games were all extremely successful and maybe it's just that you don't like them. You not liking a game isn't the same thing as "the company is clearly being an asshole by purposefully making bad games so that they can sink themselves". If that was the case then they wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful, critically or commercially, as they were.

 

[blackrave]

When I saw TES5:Skyrim GUI
[facepalm]
2/3 of screen taken by model of object (or even worse- spell-whatever-it-is-thing)
The functionality was awful (you could filter items/spells only by the very basic types)
[if you REALLY wanted the ability to inspect item, then you should have added "inspect" button that would load item model]
No ability to [shift]+[click] (transfer/sell all) or [ctrl]+[click] (transfer/sell one)
Huge fonts, so that you could see only 7 or 9 items at the time
Unresponsive mouse
Only 8 hotkeys

SkyUI fixed some of the problems, but not all.
I really hope FO4 GUI will be much better

 

[Drummodino]

I felt cheated when I bought the season pass for Borderlands 2. Never again.

^^This. Even though I got it 75% off on a Steam sale, the fact it didn't include the other character packs really pissed me off and I haven't played the game beyond the first level because I was too pissed off.

That was when I swore to never again buy a season pass.

 

[verdant monkai]

I feel cheated out of my money by shit like on disc DLC. For example the Prothean DLC on the ME3 discs was disgusting.

Paying to play online on console networks also feels like thievery.

I've never bought an online pass because they were designed to make stupid people poor, why would you buy all the DLC for a game without seeing or knowing anything about them? Even if you love the game and trust the developer, there's a good chance at least one of the DLC's will be shit. Like Hearthfire in Skyrim.
But yeah season passes seem like theft.

 

[wooty]

Most recently with Rome 2: Total War. I spent a decent amount of money upgrading my non-console to play this thing and make sure it was all above board. The game is shit, loads like shit, runs like shit, plays like shit, music is shit, looks like shit. Yet my facebook wall is still being plastered with CA dev vids on how its getting better each week and "YAAAAAAY 10/10, best game ever at E3, a classic of our times"........well not for me it aint, and a lot of others judging by the comments under said videos.

I guess the good part of tis whole mess is that my non-console is now upgraded, so Shogun 2 looks REALLY good on it. Sad part is, thanks to steam, I cant even trade in R2:TW or quickly palm it off to a friend whos gullible enough to want it.

 

[thesilentman]

I love me some Steam, but whenever it seems to go down for me and is up for everyone else, I feel sad. Since most of what I play is online nowadays (on Steam particularly), I feel it a bit too much.

And then there's all of the DLC that Burnout Paradise keeps plastering in my face. NO EA. I want to not give you my money.

Maybe I'm too quick to judge.

 

[bfgmetalhead]

Every bloody time I get a a "pilot knocked out" on Warthunder. I appreciate why it's there, but the game does a shit job of explaining the mechanics and the higher tier planes seen nigh immune to it (at least when I am chasing them XD)

 

[thegamesman101]

MOH vanguard for the PS2, seriously cutting to black in the middle of a firefight in the last mission to tell you that everything turns out well is just dumb.

 

[Master Kuja]

I paid for X Rebirth.
So yeah, that should pretty much speak for itself as to whether or not I've ever felt cheated by vidya gaiemz/industry.

 

[Victim of Progress]

Sanctum. That God awful tower defense game. I bought Dungeon Defenders, and I was some pleased by its amazing game design. That I bought another action/tower defense hybrid. Was the biggest waste of my 5 euros ever. Not only is the game criminally dull, but the developers are DLC whores who stamped it out quicker than you could check your steam wallet. It seems that the second part isn't that great either.