Gamer's Nightmare

Dear Stupid Game Developer...

Could you please be so kind and stop putting a CD check into every game during startup, since I am not prepared to risk damaging my valueable original game CD in my CDROM drive. A full installation is supposed to stop having to read from the CD. It is so much much to watch how a game chokes and croakes just because I have to wait for the CDROM drive to spin up to speed just to read something tiny and then it spins down again. This is utter stupidity. SO. . . For every game I buy, I need to check the version number, download various patches, since the out of the box game doesn't actualyl work due to bugs, then I have to go and search all over to find a NOCD (no CD!!!) fix of the patched executable. And while you are at it, please get rid of the ten thousand and one startup animations and logos, since they really piss me off! A game plastered with those does not deserve to be played, since those thigns already heighten the annoyance factor and the loading time before the main menu was even sighted. Those of-so-nice video clips which try to hide how terrible the gameplay really is do not always do any good. If a game is fun, then I will play it, otherwise it can remain on the shelf.
Since we are on the shelf topic... those prices are too high, which are a major incentive not to buy a game. Since the high prices reduce sales and increase piracy, of course then the prices are pushed up again to counter piracy. Rushed games also do no good, jsut like havign to register a game is bad as well, since not everybody does have the required expertise to do that, and not evrybody does have an internet connection which is in any case needed to get patches before the game is even started since it won't work otherwise.

Signed
B. K. E. (the horrible)