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Originally Posted by kimosabi
A certain quote comes to mind: "Never Argue With A Fool – They Will Drag You Down To Their Level, Then Beat You With Experience!"
You had me baited, fool. Congratulations. 
On a serious note, do you have the game? |
Come on, you can certainly do better than the cliche defence.
In any case, sorry if i ruffled your feathers intentionally in my previous post, i just got surprised you got so jumpy about matters of personal preference. I'm perfectly happy to retract my previous ironic comments if you can agree that we don't all have to subscribe to one certain preference
To answer your question, i do have the a collector's edition of the sim and i'm enjoying it immensely despite the glitches. I just weighed pros and cons and the sum was a positive so i went ahead and purchased it. That doesn't mean i'm 100% happy with everything neither that i'm going to get my panties in a twist over each and every issue, especially since with the kind of frequent patches and support we're getting it is shaping up to be just fine. I just like to keep things balanced and if i don't like a feature i'll go ahead and ask for an option to turn it off, heck i will even ask the same for features that i happen to like if other people take objection to them. It's only fair that we can all enjoy this the way we prefer and it also ensures a wider appeal and more potential sales for the developers.
I think that the current launch platform was chosen to reach wider audiences (good) and ease the distribution of patches (also good) due to the rushed release, but making things mandatory is always worse than making them optional. I'm not going to start a "make it optional" campaign when there's bigger fish to fry at the moment, it's just that if i don't like something i'm going to ask for check-box to turn it off without having an effect on the ability of others to keep it in use. I'm just not partial to making this the no.1 issue when there are other more important things to take care of, so i keep it on stand-by for when the game is fixed and the major issues are taken care of.
I'm not saying i hate Steam, it has caused me minimal problems thus far, mainly the fact that it keeps reverting to auto-update status everytime i run the game, i have to reset it manually each and every time, plus the annoyance of having to start it up, wait for login, close the advertisement screen, etc.
I just think that Steam will have to facilitate certain customized checks and allowances as far as CoD is concerned (if it doesn't already) to be able to prevent cheating without hampering beneficial 3rd party additions. If we just exchange one set of problems for another then it's no use in the long run, at least if we do have to choose between two sets of issues then let's make it possible for the user to choose on his own.
I'm not panicking over it since i can't really draw conclusions unless i see how things will work out in practice and currently i spent most of my time learning and explaining to others things like CEM, interface and so on. I'm just waiting to see how they will handle things, then i will draw my own conclusions and voice my opinion.
I hope i answered your question to a satisfactory degree.