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marydellSo apparently my DVD player, or the software that's talking to it, is the reason the Sims wouldn't install. EA is still faily though, and I don't even mean for encouraging people to harass their booth employees. Although that is deeply faily and infuriating.
Anyway, to get support for their stupid game with its stupid DVD full of stupid CRC errors, I created an account on their support site. To do that I have to give it the reg code from the game. So this creates my account and registers the game, apparently. Although it doesn't show up in my profile as a registered game....but my profile doesn't have much clarity anyway; the site sucks. I'm not sure you can actually view a list of your registered games, for serious.
Ok so the support forum says to do stuff to fix the DVD - dust it, defrag the C: drive, whatever. Did. It also says you can use the reg code from the game to just download the digital install package from their downloading app. Coolness! I install it, go to activate my game, and it says I can't because that number has been used. I'm logged in to my account but...no. Can't download the game with that code.
Turns out that if you've already registered the game on the support site, you can't download it through their app. Or at all. Basically, if you registered on the support site, fuck you. And if your game wouldn't install in the first place, the likelihood that you registered on the support site? PRETTY HIGH I THINK.
Ultimately I tried putting the DVD in Mike's PC, which is running Windows 7 (I'm on XP), and lo and behold it was able to copy files from the DVD without errors. So either my drive is borked, or I have some software that EA doesn't like. I shared out the folder from his system to mine and installed it without a hitch, but I'm too irritated to launch the thing, because I HATE EA SO MUCH. They make a very small number of games that are considered essential in the Dell household but they SUCCCCKKKKKKK.
So I am playing Plants Vs. Zombies instead, because the silver trophy isn't good enough for me, and if I can get to 10 flags on that damn roof I'll get the gold trophy!!!! Everybody needs to play this game, seriously. 10 bucks through the Steam service, or a 1-hour free demo from PopCap.
Yep, the balloon zombie drew a zombie face on his balloon.
Anyway, to get support for their stupid game with its stupid DVD full of stupid CRC errors, I created an account on their support site. To do that I have to give it the reg code from the game. So this creates my account and registers the game, apparently. Although it doesn't show up in my profile as a registered game....but my profile doesn't have much clarity anyway; the site sucks. I'm not sure you can actually view a list of your registered games, for serious.
Ok so the support forum says to do stuff to fix the DVD - dust it, defrag the C: drive, whatever. Did. It also says you can use the reg code from the game to just download the digital install package from their downloading app. Coolness! I install it, go to activate my game, and it says I can't because that number has been used. I'm logged in to my account but...no. Can't download the game with that code.
Turns out that if you've already registered the game on the support site, you can't download it through their app. Or at all. Basically, if you registered on the support site, fuck you. And if your game wouldn't install in the first place, the likelihood that you registered on the support site? PRETTY HIGH I THINK.
Ultimately I tried putting the DVD in Mike's PC, which is running Windows 7 (I'm on XP), and lo and behold it was able to copy files from the DVD without errors. So either my drive is borked, or I have some software that EA doesn't like. I shared out the folder from his system to mine and installed it without a hitch, but I'm too irritated to launch the thing, because I HATE EA SO MUCH. They make a very small number of games that are considered essential in the Dell household but they SUCCCCKKKKKKK.
So I am playing Plants Vs. Zombies instead, because the silver trophy isn't good enough for me, and if I can get to 10 flags on that damn roof I'll get the gold trophy!!!! Everybody needs to play this game, seriously. 10 bucks through the Steam service, or a 1-hour free demo from PopCap.
Yep, the balloon zombie drew a zombie face on his balloon.
