COINTELBRO

Time to grow up. I don't remember the last time I went to play a game without a connection. It's a non-issue, and most of the complaints come from people who are upset that it'll make it harder to pirate. All of you twerps are going to buy the game anyway. Blizzard is entitled to protect their IP. They're not Sony. If they implement DRM, they'll at least get it right.

Based on Peter Molyneux's usual (bad) judgement, I'd say "The Journey" involves physically acting out fart emotes in front of the Kinect.

@nerdydesi1 Would you like it if I told you you were hysterically overreacting?

@Triskelion My launch 360 still works like a charm. Maybe you don't know how to take care of nice things?

It's probably more fun than the actual game since you don't have to take Roman on a date ever 45 minutes of play.

Crime against humanity.

It wasn't exactly light-hearted before!

Yeah, you know, just go ahead and take the Mac tag off for this game. The Mac version is unplayable.

While we're all complaining, here's an angry letter I just sent to Steam yesterday demanding a refund:

I purchased Civilization 5 shortly after it was released for the Mac, and I have been nothing but disappointed. I am a software engineer, and I own a 2010 MacBook Pro with 4gb of RAM and discrete nVidia graphics, well above the minimum specs for Civ5's Mac port. I wasn't expecting the kind of performance you'd get from a dedicated top-of-the-line gaming PC, but what I got is so bad that I'm honestly shocked you allowed the game to be sold to unsuspecting customers in such a completely unplayable state. The game simply cannot run with a playable level of performance, even at minimum detail and at the lowest resolution (much less at native), even after the most recent patch which promised performance increases (4/19/11). On a small map, 10 turns in, with only 12 city-states and 6 civilizations, the game slows to a crawl, and it becomes virtually unplayable halfway through any game as the AI turns (even after the patch's improvements) begin to stretch out for minutes at a time. Halfway through an epic game, each individual AI turn takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Graphics glitches are all over the place, right from the start of a new game. This, of course, is assuming that the game doesn't crash on startup, as soon as you click on the main menu, or when loading a map, which happens more often than not. A quick Google search shows that these problems are very commonplace. I have even seen people who claim to be playing the game on their brand-new top-tier Mac Pros complain of unplayable performance. If an 8-core, dual-GPU desktop system can't play this game, what hope do 90% of Mac users who are using nothing more than integrated graphics have? I have been a long-time user of Steam and was thrilled when you opened your service to Mac users. I also love the way a single purchase of a multi-platform game will allow you to play it on both Windows and Mac. I am aware that I could install Windows in Boot Camp and play Civ5 in Steam there, but I didn't buy a Mac so that I could drop everything and restart my laptop every time I might want to catch a few quick turns in Civ5, and I certainly didn't wait until the Mac version was released so that I could play the already available Windows version. Having said all of this, I think that it is only reasonable for me to request a full refund for the game. I have owned Civ5 for months and have never one time been able to enjoy, much less complete, a single game because the performance renders it an exercise in frustration and futility. I am willing to accept either a refund to my purchasing card or in the form of a gift certificate or other form of store credit. Please let me know if this is acceptable. I will not continue to use the Steam service if I am both unable to receive a refund for a defective product and cannot count on the service to adequately QA its content. I hope that this can be resolved quickly and that I can continue to be a Steam customer.

YEAH. Can't wait to not get that refund.

No final build for Moto Droid yet either :(

@TheDarkWayne

Well, I haven't played the game. I was just speaking generally. I loved DA:O, but the dialoge in the demo for DA2 was so laughably bad I haven't really thought much about playing it.

Also you can beat the demo by mashing X. That's about as fun as Wii Boxing (waggle wiimote to do).