Crap

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 09:43pm

With a true take on modern manufacturing methods, my CD1 of Command and Conquer: Generals has cracked. No other CD has ever done that before to me.

I feel quite pissed off, luckily I'm going into town tomorrow and it's 28 days after I bought the game so I can get a replacement I should think.

Oh and for the record, bollocks.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-14 09:45pm

OOC, how was it cracked, did it come like that?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-03-14 09:47pm

Thats why the other C&Cs are better. Finished with the campaigns? Lost one of your play discs? No problem! Put in the other one. Curse EA for ruining Westwood Studios. Their day of reckoning shall be swift, and just.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-14 09:48pm

How many times did you play with it before it cracked.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 09:52pm

Montcalm wrote:How many times did you play with it before it cracked.

It's been in my CD-ROM pretty much all the time apart from when I took it home to play on my bro's PC but the video card was crap. I noticed what looked like a slight break a week ago and just now I tried to play the game and the disc drive went mental trying to read it. I take it out and lo and behold, not one, but two hairline cracks at 90 degrees to one another from the centre of the disc outwards just past where the aluminium starts.

I even tried to use the other disc to play but as usual I curse how Westwood was kicked from this project. Fucking EA.

I better get a damn replacement at HMV tomorrow or I will be serverely pissed off.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-14 09:58pm

I guess it must be two things then defect in manufacturing or the store repackaged it after someone else had already returned it.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-14 10:01pm

Montcalm wrote:Iguess it must be two things then defect inmanufacturing or the store repackaged it after someone else had already returned it.

I, partly, blame my actualy CD drive, today they go at excessively high speeds just to load quicker by a few seconds, though my drive runs slow after the initial spin up cycle so I guess that wasn't to blame. I also usually run it in the DVD-ROM since it is slower and quieter.

So in the end it looks like defective manufacturing, hardly surprising when my Queen: Greatest Hits CD has gone to hell and back with nary a scratch yet this CD after just a month of use has given me the middle finger and gone to that big place in the sky for CD-ROMs or maybe Hell where all the AOL discs reside.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-14 10:05pm

They'll be the first ones with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-15 10:19am

Howedar wrote:They'll be the first ones with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-15 10:29am

You think you're pissed off? Try dealing with the inexplicable corruption of EVERY ONE of your Hearts of Iron savegames. I was the USSR. The year was 1944. I was kicking Japan's ass and already had all of Europe except France (because they were part of the Allies and my war against them wasn't due to start until I had a strong navy to starve and invade Britain- probably sometime around 1946-48).

I'm so fucking annoyed.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-15 12:18pm

Hah! Britons shall never become slaves.

But crisis averted anyway, the bloke at HMV gave me a whole new game back and it works.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-15 02:09pm

HMV are pretty decent that way. I buy my DVD's there.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-15 09:01pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Hah! Britons shall never become slaves.

They will when it's 1947 and I've got T-54s, mechanized, APC equipped infantry with AKs, and MiG-15s at my disposal

But crisis averted anyway, the bloke at HMV gave me a whole new game back and it works.

Crisis averted on my part as well- it was my own damn fault that i lost my savegames (long story- suffice to say I use a cracked exe to extend playtime to 1955 and Shep's enhanced tech tree mod), and I still have my May 43 savegame- only several months before I launched my Japan campaign.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-03-15 11:44pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Montcalm wrote:How many times did you play with it before it cracked.
It's been in my CD-ROM pretty much all the time apart from when I took it home to play on my bro's PC but the video card was crap. I noticed what looked like a slight break a week ago and just now I tried to play the game and the disc drive went mental trying to read it. I take it out and lo and behold, not one, but two hairline cracks at 90 degrees to one another from the centre of the disc outwards just past where the aluminium starts.

I even tried to use the other disc to play but as usual I curse how Westwood was kicked from this project. Fucking EA.

I better get a damn replacement at HMV tomorrow or I will be serverely pissed off.

Yeah, I remember reading in the C&C readme that they intended for people to lend their GDI or Nod disc to their friends so that they could play multiplayer without both people needing to buy the game.

And then there was the "multiplayer spawn" install for TA.

What the hell happened in the last few years?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-15 11:55pm

Uraniun235 wrote: Yeah, I remember reading in the C&C readme that they intended for people to lend their GDI or Nod disc to their friends so that they could play multiplayer without both people needing to buy the game.

And then there was the "multiplayer spawn" install for TA.

What the hell happened in the last few years?

Game companies noticed what Microsoft could get away with