Black Ops: I'm being forced to install Steam!!

[Zak33]

I can't work out how to installl Black Op's without Steam.

Do I HAVE to have it?

I've never run Steam, I don't want it... I got the DVD retail (as I always do) for my shelf collection.. and now it's insisting on Steam.....

any way round it?

[Terbinator]

You have to have Steam, in fact, i think the disc is just a glorified serial key and you still download a percentage of the game itself from Steam.

[Zak33]

I am furious... bloody livid!

It's a BOXED RETAIL GAME, I still have to use a Serial... .so why not do it like CoDW@W where it checks online everytime before I can play?

Now I have to have the gamingf equivalent to iTunes in the corner of my desk top....?

Typical retail punter too... seethed for a while and HAD to judge whether to take it back for a refund and never play it... or swallow my pride.

I hate being cornered.... hate it.

[Zak33]

you''re right.. it's downloading content already. Before the game's come off the disk.. it's downloading.

I HAD TO CLICK PLAY!!!

It's not even damn welll installed yet.. I know it's not... I haven't heard the disk spool up... and yet it's asked me to click PLAY!!

Play what?

Play the download waiting game...

******s.. total ******s.

This game had best be damnably good... better than W@W which I've played for 2 years solid.. because I have just singed my life away to people.....

[Zak33]

READY TO PLAY IN APPROX.....


4 hours!

4 hours... I was all set to play for a 2 hour session before getting on with life.. and I can't.

[Zak33]

Walk into a cinema and pay £8 each... sit down.... and be told you've gotta sign up for something else entirely, free of charge, but giving away all your email contact details for future spam... and THEN be told the film's not IN this poxy cinema...

OH No... it's not here.. you've gotta wait while we get it from another cinema.

Absolute bandits....

[Zak33]

walk into a car showroom, hand over your £10,000, get it insured, taxed, and go collect it.

Sit in it.... and turn the key.. and nothing.

"What's up with it?"

"Oh you're not getting THIS one,... it's the fake one for display it has no engine..... your's is miles away, we've not prepared it because when you gave us ALL THE MONEY UP FRONT WE STILL DIDN'T THINK YOU'D WANT IT YET...... you can't HAVE it until you give someone else all your details and agree to pay for the fuel to get your one here.. which.. by the way.... might take 4 or more hours..... that's ok though isn't it? Because we've had so much car theft recently that we have to turn into bandits ourselves too justify the price we charged before"

[Zak33]

WE'RE UP TO 4 HOURS 8 MINUTES....

that's good though, huh?

[Terbinator]

As an aside, i wasn't annoyed by the Steam integration as i was fully aware of it. However, having to download plenty of GB's of the game i had 'delivered' to my house was somewhat annoying.

[Zak33]

"somewhat annoying?"

It's abysmal.... it's taking the total micky tbh.

I've got a DVD in the drawer and I don't even KNOW if it's done anything OTHER than install Steam yet?

MY BANDWIDTH (luckily not short this month) is being drained by a company who I've already paid for a total game.

I didnt get a DEMO.... it's a FULL RETAIL box.

absolute total High Grade Narked off.....

IF I went to HMV and bought a 12 track CD and came home to find I had to download it.... and that it WASN'T on my CD at all... I'd be no less gutted.

[Zak33]

hold on... we ARE installing from disk now...

can you all FEEL the silver platter love? It's gentle unspooling it's war mongering juice into my hard drive.

total wassacks, the lot of them. How do they DARE deny me content? I just paid for it... ....

[kasavien]

Surely it says somewhere on the packaging that steam is required?

I still don't see what the big deal is. I think steam is great, I can buy a game whenever I feel like it and I never have to worry about losing the media, it's always there ready to download and install again whenever I reinstall windows. Everything is always up to date, much better than having to hunt down patches from various unreliable places!

That's not even mentioning the fantastic sales that are on nearly all the time. The holiday sales have been fantastic this year and I've got some really good bargains.

I don't think you're being fair, but that's just my 2p.

ps. when you buy a car you don't always get to drive it away straight away, sometimes you have to wait for the dealership to get the exact spec in that you want, or you may have to wait for a check up and service

pps. when you go to the cinema you have to sit through at least 20 mins of trailers if you're lucky, more if you're not. Having said that I like trailers

[Zak33]

Everything is always up to date, much better than having to hunt down patches from various unreliable places!

now THAT is positive... that IS positive

However... negative is that I'm STILL not playing the new game and it's crashed at 98% because Steam is not responding.

I shal not debate the other points as I feel you may have.... missed them a tad.

[finlay666]

Zak

Buy a games console, never go online with it

Problem solved

[danroyle]

i know how you feel i had the same thing when i got mordern warfare 2 it took me nearly 6 hours to install a game. I use steam so less of an issue for me but it is a pain all the downloading.

[Barry]

Thats odd that you are waiting

I installed black ops for one of my kids last night and it installed the whole game from disk and downloaded the updates via steam which took a max of 15 minutes from putting the disk in to being able to launch the game