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Rin Stowleigh
Sep 18, 2012, 6:01:23 PM9/18/12
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Damn this game is fun. If you've been playing Bordlands 1 recently,
then I can see how the "more of same" effect could dampen your
enjoyment, but I haven't played the original since the first couple of
months following its release (2009), so this was a welcomed purchase.
Jumped right into co-op, played about an hour of that. Then about an
hour of single player. So far no bugs or crashes, seems to be a
well-tested release.
Xocyll
Sep 18, 2012, 7:39:37 PM9/18/12
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Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Indeed. Been playing it solo for a couple hours now.
Once I got it installed that is.
The first 150+ times steam insisted the key was invalid and wouldn't
even let me install the friggen game.
It wasn't until after I'd contacted 2k about the problem that steam
suddenly decided that the exact same key was now valid.
Then of course it force patched, finished (claimed to), then of course
it said it wasn't ready to be run in offline mode.
Back online for more downloading, the back offline. Start game and
nothing happens. back online, start game and it "finalized the install"
or something like that, then I could finally go offline and play.
Total time wasted - a couple hours waiting for steam to admit that the
perfectly valid key was in fact valid and trying various workarounds
mentioned in various forums, then a 90 minute install from dvd, then
another hour or so in patching and finalizing.
I was installing from dvd, the least it could do is do the friggen
install and then wait to be verified and patched. But NO, it has to be
accepted by steam before you can install from physical media and if
steam fucks up, which it did, you can do nothing at all.
And you wonder why I don't like steam.
No, I'm not kidding about the 150+ tries either.
Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
Once I got it installed that is.
The first 150+ times steam insisted the key was invalid and wouldn't
even let me install the friggen game.
It wasn't until after I'd contacted 2k about the problem that steam
suddenly decided that the exact same key was now valid.
Then of course it force patched, finished (claimed to), then of course
it said it wasn't ready to be run in offline mode.
Back online for more downloading, the back offline. Start game and
nothing happens. back online, start game and it "finalized the install"
or something like that, then I could finally go offline and play.
Total time wasted - a couple hours waiting for steam to admit that the
perfectly valid key was in fact valid and trying various workarounds
mentioned in various forums, then a 90 minute install from dvd, then
another hour or so in patching and finalizing.
I was installing from dvd, the least it could do is do the friggen
install and then wait to be verified and patched. But NO, it has to be
accepted by steam before you can install from physical media and if
steam fucks up, which it did, you can do nothing at all.
And you wonder why I don't like steam.
No, I'm not kidding about the 150+ tries either.
Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
Rin Stowleigh
Sep 18, 2012, 7:05:16 PM9/18/12
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:39:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
wrote:
There are some install problems with the game install to be sure, but
blame it on Gearbox and not Steam. My other several-hundred Steam
games don't have these problems.
The particular issue I have with it is that the .Net framework does
some installation song and dance every time I load the game. I'm not
too worried about it, because it will be worked out soon, and its a
minimal hassle compared to most games upon release. They released
this game right on the dime that they said they would, and during
actual gameplay I've yet to see a hitch, glitch or bitch, so I'm not
complaining about some annoying install issues.
wrote:
blame it on Gearbox and not Steam. My other several-hundred Steam
games don't have these problems.
The particular issue I have with it is that the .Net framework does
some installation song and dance every time I load the game. I'm not
too worried about it, because it will be worked out soon, and its a
minimal hassle compared to most games upon release. They released
this game right on the dime that they said they would, and during
actual gameplay I've yet to see a hitch, glitch or bitch, so I'm not
complaining about some annoying install issues.
Xocyll
Sep 18, 2012, 11:22:10 PM9/18/12
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it was an invalid code for over 150 tries, then suddenly decided to
accept it.
That's:
1. starting the install and entering the code when prompted.
2. going to steam and choosing to activate.
3. installing steam on the second computer and repeating #2. (there were
reports that activating but not installing from a different computer
would allow the activation to happen, then you could install on the
normal computer.
But all 3 of these methods failed and then suddenly hours later, #2
worked (I was actually trying it so I could take a photo of the error
screen as requested by 2kgames in order to get a replacement code.
Oh and when trying #3 I ran into steamguard and had to log off on the
alt computer then log into steam from the main to shut off steamguard.
It _claimed_ that it was protecting me and sent me a confirmation email
with some code that had to be entered in order to allow a new computer
to have access - but 11 hours later and that email has still not arrived
(frankly I doubt it was sent.)
That's not gearbox, that's not 2k games, that's steam.
>The particular issue I have with it is that the .Net framework does
>some installation song and dance every time I load the game. I'm not
>too worried about it, because it will be worked out soon, and its a
>minimal hassle compared to most games upon release. They released
>this game right on the dime that they said they would, and during
>actual gameplay I've yet to see a hitch, glitch or bitch, so I'm not
>complaining about some annoying install issues.
several postings about the installer going into a loop installing .net.
Didn't happen here - once the install actually started, it completed
successfully. The problem was steam wouldn't take the code and let it
start for over 2 hours.
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