I am going to be a little naughty and quote my good friend who I had this very conversation over email with about two years ago
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ME:
It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work. I had the same problem with microsoft and fallout3 extensions, after I went through microsofts increadibly evil market place for games thing, bought myself some credits (why can't I just use money guys) and downloaded the extensions, I had to jerry rig them to work with fallout3 because that version I downloaded with steam, and MS has a clause in their terms about versions of fallout downloaded from competing software devlivery systems.
In fact steam is the only on of these fucking things I have ever used that just works (in fact it works a bit too well its nearly as dangerous to my wallet as amazons one click)
Hint guys, If you cant make it like steam, or amazons one click, just pack up shop and go home, the more hoops I jump through, just to appease your circle jacking business people and "Information architects" the more likly I am to just pirate the software.
My Friend:
> > It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work.
I feel your pain.
But you're expecting it to work because you see it as a transaction,
you buy it, they give it to you. They on the other hand are living in
crazy bugfuck dying-media-company world (it's Sony), where it's
actually an opportunity for you to STEAL FROM THEM. And so people who
a) don't know how software works and b) aren't operating with a full
deck to start with dictate how the process gets built. They add this
and demand that in this big committee (all the more efficient because
it's actually a tree of committees), and some poor schmoe programmer
implements it the way he's told.
The real surprise is that they manage to sell /anything/.
---- ME:
It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work. I had the same problem with microsoft and fallout3 extensions, after I went through microsofts increadibly evil market place for games thing, bought myself some credits (why can't I just use money guys) and downloaded the extensions, I had to jerry rig them to work with fallout3 because that version I downloaded with steam, and MS has a clause in their terms about versions of fallout downloaded from competing software devlivery systems.
In fact steam is the only on of these fucking things I have ever used that just works (in fact it works a bit too well its nearly as dangerous to my wallet as amazons one click)
Hint guys, If you cant make it like steam, or amazons one click, just pack up shop and go home, the more hoops I jump through, just to appease your circle jacking business people and "Information architects" the more likly I am to just pirate the software.
My Friend:
> > It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work. I feel your pain.
But you're expecting it to work because you see it as a transaction, you buy it, they give it to you. They on the other hand are living in crazy bugfuck dying-media-company world (it's Sony), where it's actually an opportunity for you to STEAL FROM THEM. And so people who a) don't know how software works and b) aren't operating with a full deck to start with dictate how the process gets built. They add this and demand that in this big committee (all the more efficient because it's actually a tree of committees), and some poor schmoe programmer implements it the way he's told.
The real surprise is that they manage to sell /anything/.