It’s a UI nightmare that hides access to your games library in a secondary menu, then displays all your purchases (including DLC) in one long, impossible-to-navigate list. Microsoft split away from Steam and focused its efforts on the Windows 10 Store. EA introduced refunds to Origin in 2013, Valve followed suit in 2015, but what’s quickly become an industry standard has yet to be adopted by Bethesda-even though Fallout 76, with its myriad performance issues and general jank, is perhaps one of the games you’d be most forgiven for refunding at release. Well too bad, because Bethesda won’t let you. Managing game installs? Friend lists? Why do I need a client, if not these features? And yet fumbles a number of them, damaging the platform’s first impressions and driving away a large number of players.Īnd if your experience with Fallout 76 is bad enough, maybe you’d like to refund it. After some troubleshooting, it turns out the username I wanted was actually taken, even though told me I was in the clear. Failing to find it, I then tried to make a new account-only to have account creation fail at the final step every time, with a nondescript “Something went wrong” error. Me? I spent two fruitless hours trying to recover my old account, which I used for Elder Scrolls Online at some point. You had to delete the game’s files manually from your hard drive, because the client basically stopped paying attention to them until release day. Once the beta ended, the launcher provided no way for players who’d lost interest to uninstall the beta. First there was the PC beta, which plenty of players downloaded only to find it didn’t work, prompting the client to re-download the entire beta a second time. If you’re going to pull your game off Steam, you’d better have Steam-like features in your new launcher-at least the basics.Īnd yet as I played Fallout 76, I dealt with more and more of ’s rough edges. That presupposes, however, that all those launchers are equally functional. Trying to imagine my 2000+ game Steam library as a stack of CD-ROM jewel cases.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |