
Originally Posted by
ruymencia
CIV V = ENDLESS CRAP. The same is happening to me, also on Spanish Windows XP. And the best is that they have a Tech Support number which charges ONE EURO PER MINUTE! Now I understand why they don't bother to solve this issue. But believe me, I will do my best to DESTROY all your marketing of this game, even if I have to go forum by forum or stick posters in all universities and libraries here in Madrid.
I have a 2,8 GHz Intel Dual Core computer, with an XFX Nvidia GTS240 1GB graphics card and 2 GB RAM.
You must be wondering WHY I complain? Well, quite simple. I received the game yesterday morning, 23/September. I put the DVD on the drive and first thing I read was "ERROR, cANNOT FIND EULA". Nice copy protection, or whatever that was. I had to put it in several times until it finally read it. After a thousand minutes of installing this software and its accessory programs, and after lots of crashes of the accessory programs, I finally made it. But shoot, it read "Cannot play this game until it's released". I read that in Spain the date of release was 24/Sept. Thus, I waited. I "precharged" the game so it could be "faster". After 2 stupid hours downloading this game, I hit "PLAY". It was already 24 Sept and Steam confirmed I could play (on the website). It tells me the files are fragmented, to please defrag. I hit ok and wait. It was stuck at 3% for almost 1 hour. I hit cancel and say "who cares". I open it again and hit PLAY. It tells me STEAM WILL NOW DECYPHER THE FILES, which are encripted. It starts downloading more Steam CRAP, again, very slowly. Then, COMPLETING INSTALLATION, a few more minutes. Then, asking me to which NGO I want to donate... WTF?!?!?!?! And FINALLY, when I finally have everything... IT CRASHES and there's no way to play this stupid game. My question is. After more than 4 hours installing this crap, WHEN THE HELL WILL I BE ABLE TO PLAY? Why do you invest SO MUCH MONEY protecting something that will be unprotected TOMORROW? Make the game cheaper instead, invest that money in Haiti victims, do something useful! And you know what? What will happen if I want to reinstall my windows? Do I have to go through all this crap again? Are you nuts? Of course I realise now that BUYING ORIGINAL IS A MISTAKE. I have always bought original versions of ALL CIVS, because I adore this game and I adore Sim Meier's ideas, but this is a HUGE mistake from FIRAXIS and the STUPID senior executive moron who decided to do this this way. I will try to find a pirate and "easy to install" version of the game to install it and use my serial to play online, but THIS IS THE LAST TIME I BUY ANY OF YOUR PRODUCTS. I should've bought SETTLERS 7. YOU SUCK. Long life to OLD CIV GAMES.