So here it is – 11:24pm on 4th March and I’m still left starring at the gamebox of Supreme Commander 2, unable to play it because Steam won’t let me until it’s 5 March Steam time. For a game that Americans have been able to play since the 1st.

They cant have it both ways. If they want to rape you money wise due to your location, which is already discrimination in itself, they can’t then rape you if you happen to get an advantage time wise. Because heaven forbid you download and play a game 11 hours earlier than their server time, for a game that’s already been out for 4 days overseas.

Don’t get me started on the fact that I’ve bought a disc version, available since Wednesday, that I haven’t been able to even install because the installer is tied to steam and I’m too early. Fuck you. It’s on store shelves everywhere. What are the non-tech savy ppl doing about this? Buying it, getting home and it’s saying “sorry you can’t install because we’re fucks and won’t let you install it until the 5th of March, and we won’t mention in that that we’re actually working off a different time to you so when we say the 5th, we really me the afternoon of the 5th. But we won’t let you know. We’ll just let you get angry.”

In addition, I find out that even though the files are on the dvd, when you do try to install when it lets you, that it insists on downloading the 7gb game from Steam rather than using the files on the dvd in your drive less than a metre away from you. Are you fucking joking. The disc version is to avoid the whole crap with “pre-loading” a game. I’ve been pre-loading with forced local internode severs for the last 2 days, and I’m up to a whopping 16% downloaded so far. Yes steam is a real good idea, I recommend every publisher use it. It’s such a fucking life saver.

Fuck you in the arse til you bleed steam.

This is the exact reason why consoles are better. Disc in and play. I don’t know how PC gamers stand this crap.

I hope the person that made this program is torn apart by rabid dogs, survives, and then dies in a horrific harvester accident, where his/her flesh, bones and organs are processed and spat out the top of the harvester.

Sorry, it has been a long few days trying to get some entertainment for the last few days of my holidays since returning from Japan.

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