sueing EA on Health and Safety grounds . .

[pancakes]

kewl e-man, are we supposed feel sorry for you?

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

I have been sat at my desk in front of my computer for very nearly 8 hours straight. I have done everything that a non computer nerd like me can do to get the bloody game to work. For a while I thought I had done it, that was until I decided to update. Well that blew it didn't it. I replaced the firmware in my Dvd Rom, I updated all the drivers that I know to update. I updated punkbuster, reinstalled, uninstalled, reinstalled, uninstalled and reinstalled again. I updated punkbuster, again. I checked my drivers, again. Everything, I did again and again and again. Escuse me Mr EA, but I am not A tecchie. I am just an innocent Lump Head who knows just enough to get by but not enough to be dangerous. I CANNOT GET YOUR GAME TO WORK!!! You are a provider of a service Mr EA, I have paid a lot of money for that service and I expect to get it. I don't expect to have to reprogramme my entire PC just because your publishing dept. has a deadline . . . hold the release, just get it right first time.

So now I think I shall sue you. For neck strain, eye strain, brain ache and RSI. Plus a new moniter and and three broken knuckles. That moniter glass is pretty tough stuff.

I have an adeqaute machine. It ran your demo just fine and dandy. The full game eventually ran when I cracked the "No DVD crack" conundrum, but when your update, thats your UPDATE! Doesn't work, actually worse, causes what was originally working to not to work, thats just careless.

So Mr EA, please expect a letter from my lawyer and the raised inclination of my middle digit. On my left hand, because my right has those three broken knuckles.


*Note: sent to EA support. If anyone knows why this bloomin thing keeps crashing on me (Starts to load, goes to black screen then dumps me out) after everything I have done please let me know. As of now I'm going back to the original install with the the DVD crack that I knew worked and at least get some play out of a game that I thought I liked lots . . . BOOOOO. Ow!*

wow you must be a hardass ea will piss on you you funnylooking teddybear.

[Funnylookingteddybear]

Oh for gods sake, do some people really have no sense of humour at all?

Does humour not make it throught the biege plastic at their fingertips?

Does it not escape from behind the glass?

I know I'm no Eddie Izzard, but I didn't think you could actually take what I said seriously? Did any of you actually read it?

Anyway. I know my spec is basic, but it manages. I'm playing version 1.0 like a demon with the vis settings on medium. It plays just fine. I just can't work out why the patch should prevent a previously working copy to suddenly cease to perform it's function. What did EA or Dice do?

Anyway. I'm going back to playing V1. At least get something for my 30 odd quid.

Er, Kewl-aid-thingy . . .whatever your name is. Please share your life with me. I would be most interested to hear the backup to your claim. Slighty silly thing to say what you said because you really have no idea do you? About anything. Bless.

[J()sh]

I would just like to point out I posted this earlier

http://forums.totalbf2.com/showpost.php?p=266886&postcount=14

But i don't think anybody knows what facetious means.

[][)evil][)awg]

I feel your pain teddy...... I had the same problems when I first installed the game. I used a ***** crack. Worked fine untill the patch.
I updated and it all went to crap, black screen ye ol digital middle finger.. I uninstalled the game and deleted everything.
Reinstalled with out crack and works fine. Software isn't perfect and neither is bread basket America.
So relax simmer down let us know if there is anything else we can help you with.

[Funnylookingteddybear]

Problem is, I can't run it without the crack unless I shell out for a new compatible DVDrom. Guess I'll just have to nurse my broken knuckles till then.

It's still just random that a game can work fine and then not work at all. It's a silly pain in th arse.

But cheers for your help anyway.

[LT.INSTG8R]

Can you not install the game without the the "crack"? if you can install it patch THEN apply the crack

[DrunkenPirate]

I am amazed this topic has gone as far as it has...
Since this is just a discussion on how to crack the game I'm sure their will be objections to it's closure.

Please do not discuss warez and/or warez related software here.