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Russian Federation4235 Posts
I do like the game, no matter what you might think from the thread title. But some shit is downright ridiculous.
Monday evening, launch party. Obviously, I'm a normal working person, so I don't get to spend the night with geeks and children, and but in on Tuesday instead. However, I got abit nostalgic, and instead of getting a digital download copy (like I should have) I bought a retail box. Who doesn't love shiny boxed filled with random shit? 30 bucks for a 1-year playtime isn't too bad either.
Anxious, I come home. Clearing up 10 gb of space wasn't really that easy, but I do it in a breeze and launch the installer, expecting to play the game in approximately 15 minutes.
"Fuck you, Mr. BluzMan".
The game installs itself for more than a hour explaining various shit I already know in a bad russian voice. Finished? Hell no, please wait 20 minutes more patching. Meanwhile (important!) I connect my B.net account to my game's CD-key.
Next step - the loading screen. Not that the main menu loads slow, but it sure gives me an excellent experience compiling some maps. It's several more minutes. Finally I load the menu, press 'Connect' and I'm told that I don't own a copy of StarCraft II. Marvelous! But sir, I really do!
"Fuck you, Mr. BluzMan"
Ok, I'm a tech guy. I know how to fix stuff in some cases. After googling for solution I notice a guy with the same problem who fixed it by changing his password. This is absurd, but it works, I'm able to login.
I will later return to my experience with the game, but my experience with my changed B.net account can be best characterized as disenchanting. Do you still remember that I bought the game for $30? I can upgrade my account to "Full version" for a small price of $50 more. I slowly realize that I've been fucking robbed, what an idiot. Afaik, in US you can buy a normal lifetime access SC2 for $50 total, correct me if I'm wrong. Well, there ain't any opportunities to buy a retail "Full" SC2 in Russia. Not at all. Now the "budget" price policy for Russia aimed at people who can't afford buying a game for $50 is in fact a robbery, because in the end, you will have to pay $80 and there's no way to avoid it.
But can I at least get rid of the shitty translation? I did it for StarCraft, I did it for Diablo II, I should be able to do it with StarCraft II, right?
"Fuck you, Mr. BluzMan"
Downloading game clients in Russia is restricted to russian localization. Checkmate. Moreover, I have a russain client already registered, I can't just unregister it (well, no, in fact I think that if I offer Blizzard free $30, they will surely take it despite the rules). I'm stuck playing a shitty localized version for a year until I will have to pay the full $80 price of the wonderful gaming experience. Only hope left is cross-region play.
But is the shit worth it? When I first played SC, I had a Pentium 60. Even though that mighty machine was below SC's minimum system specs (P-90), I've never experienced any problems other than a slight lag in 800/800 team melee games. I've never had any performance issues with Diablo II, nor WarCraft III. StarCraft II, on the contrary, is SLOW. The game freezes for a few seconds here and there, I get choppy animations, somewhat unresponsive controls and "You've got a new achievement!!!" messages flooding my screen. Tolerable? Well, maybe. Maybe I'm somewhat wrong completing missions on Veteran in 10 minutes, I should play worse, but after that 10 minutes elapse, I have to watch at a loading screen for Hyperion for 3 minutes and 3 minutes more for the new mission, that's 60% the time of actual playing. After mission 5 or 6, the loading screen progress bar never managed to finish and I went to sleep. I can't prove I've seen it, but I'm under strong impression that that loading screen had a hidden text layer with "Fuck you, Mr. BluzMan" on it.
Conclusion:
I'm being treated like shit. Repeatedly. Even though I'm a paying customer. The game itself is nice, but getting to play it is a nightmare both with Activision lurking behind every corner and 1 gigabyte of mem in the swap file.
Unless you really love SC and can't survive without playing SC2 or unless you're living in US and own a top-end gaming rig, I would seriously recommend against buying SC2 in the near future until things settle down. I hope they will, but signs tell it that the Blizzard of old is long long gone.
  
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sounds like your pc sucks, that's not something you can really blame on blizzard
the password change shit is nothing more than a mild annoyance, the only legitimate complaint in this post is the price.
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Lol I love the title "Son, I am dissapoint" made me think of a dad facing his son and telling him that he is a failure.
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Wow, Blizzard is treating other regions like second class citizens.
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Russian Federation4235 Posts
It's not the GPU, it's mem most likely. I "only" (lol!) have 2 gb and the game is swapping 1 gb.
It's eating 1 gb of raw memory and 1 gb of swap. I fail to see how that complies with the 1 gb total in the system requirements.
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On July 28 2010 23:15 GreEny K wrote:
Lol I love the title "Son, I am dissapoint" made me think of a dad facing his son and telling him that he is a failure.
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That's kinda the point? Did I just take the bait?
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On July 28 2010 23:15 GreEny K wrote:
Lol I love the title "Son, I am dissapoint" made me think of a dad facing his son and telling him that he is a failure.
It's actually a 4chan meme.
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I don't mean to be rude but it sounds to me that while I do disagree with some of the new pricing in places like Russia the problems you seem to be having ignoring dubbing and translations you don't like(I have not seen it so I can't judge too well). The big issue you have is more then likely running on your end, it may be time to upgrade the PC. I had a install time of about 15 minutes and 5 minutes of patches *shrug* Hope you find solutions to your problems soon though.
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The only thing I can confirm from all this (living in the US, I got the actual game, not some 1-year localization nonsense) is that basically if your computer doesn't have a dedicated graphics card you're screwed, no matter what your other specs are.
Which honestly is in line with the minimum specs on the game box, but also sucks, both for casual gamers like myself in general, and in comparison to SC:BW which could run on a microwaved brick.
(The game does *run*, but you're stuck with lowest settings and slightly degraded frame-rates.)
If you're on a network, the constantly-connected thing just makes it worse.
On the other hand, the game itself is awesome.
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You own a computer that is below specs? So do I-- I stream live video, and also record using software.. and have very few issues.
Also-- blame your country, not Blizzard. Either way-- I always like to hear a good rant thread, even if they anger isn't always justifiable.
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yeahh. It was pretty gay. Dont upgrade ur accnt. Cos the espansion will prolly be out ina yr anyways.
i finished he campaign on hard and it didnt count cos achievements were offline.
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I know what you mean about the slow thing man.  I played 1, count it, ONE game of Beta... and I just couldn't stand the low FPS. T_T I only have a laptop for gaming, and it's a pretty decent one with like 3 gigs of ram, 4ghz dual core processor, and all that stuff... but no dedicated graphics card  Because of that, I can't even run SC2 in fear of lag and low FPS rate. T_T I want to play SC2 too...
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Bummer about your price issues. Something got lost in translation. Currencies vary around the world...and I'm sure Jim Raynor isn't speaking in Russian Voice. I guess in Russia, game play you.
SC2 does possess a very mild hiccup in occasional loading sequences. With all that's going on in these hard veteran missions, the sheer amount of mission content running... and an old computer with arguably lower performance than a custom built rig...you see, right there. A console would never run this. Even I had to tweak my graphics settings lower than what I can do well in multi-player back in beta.
My fav, its all the old school map exploring gameplay, just like when I was like 14 playing Orcs and Humans...Sigaty is the man. SC2 NA client for the win.Sorry for your trouble tho!
This, is PC. Gaming.
....whew. Breathless. Fun stuff.
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build a new computer. 500 beans and you can play on ultra all day
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So you are poor, have an out of date computer (2gigs is standard for a web browsing computer these days, not a computer you play video games on), and bought the single player mode of the game because it was cheaper. Tough luck, /b/rother.
Why the fuck was this posted on the front page???
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On July 28 2010 23:01 Tropics wrote:
sounds like your pc sucks, that's not something you can really blame on blizzard
the password change shit is nothing more than a mild annoyance, the only legitimate complaint in this post is the price.
And then that's no complaint because it's the asking price for the version here in SEA regions, and was even before we got the perk of US access (a necessity more than a bonus mind you).
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Eh, should have checked beforehand if it would run smoothly. If your computer is above system requirements and your country have good consumer protection, consider making a complaint.
We also have that distinct pricing and I find it awesome. Anyone who knows gonna play longer may purchase the digital version or have the box shipped overseas. Helps much on introducing people to the game, however...
Only thing that pisses me off is the localization. Looks like it was done by professional translators, not someone who cares for the game. Things like "terranos" sound so stupid I'd do everthing to not play in portuguese.
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How anyone can blame blizzard on this matter is pretty astounding.
First complaint, His computer blows. This is Blizzards fault how? My computer isn't super great and I can manage to squeeze out ultra on all settings in singleplayer with only having a minor lag as the map loads up.
Second complaint: It's in Russian. It's Blizzards fault that they cater to people that doesn't speak English very well shame on them! It's all their fault that he didn't get a English version of the game, they should have called him up and made sure he wouldn't make this misstake.
Third complaint: The price. I'm sorry but Blizzard isn't making any extra dime of you paying 80 bucks for this, they are getting the exact same value for each copy while the retailers are the ones pocketing the extra money. They did not make up some kind of Russian-tax just to piss you off.
Also complaining about something as minor as a really really minor launch day bug is just silly.
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