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This game is broken

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I bought this game with high expations due to a good review on gamespot.  But boy am i disapointed :( I installed it on my computer and played it for a few hours and was haveing a great time playing it.  At the time I thought (cool, its about time a decent space strat game came out).  Next day I get home from work and was all excited to resume where I had left off.  Launched the game and bam! minidump.  I was like what the hell.  So I hop on the web to do a bit of research to see what the hell this minidump thing is.  I google it and it leads me to the forms here.  Then I find out I have to regester my game to even get a patch for the game I just bought.  No biggie right? NOT! I'm like "what the hell, I just paid good money for this game and now to even get a patch to fix this shit that I bought, I have to regester and give them all my personal info?" Some thing wrong with this! So ok fine, I regesterd the dam thing. Then I proced to find a link to DL the patch.  Hahaha yea right can you make it any harder to find a link?  So its been about 2 hours since I got home and tried to launch this game I bought yesterday.  Talk about a poor experince.  Finaly I get the patch DL and installed, run the game and.... yep minidump. Dosn't even launch.  Well I just wasted my free time after work! So next day I do a lot more reading and reasearch. Sounds like this is a big problem that many people are having and that its not the exact same place or reason that we are all getting this minidump error. (sound BROKEN to anyone) by this time I am so frustrated at wanting to just play the dam thing that I do an uninstall and reinstall.  (my computer is a bit older so it takes ruffly an hour to do this) I launch the game and.... Yeah!!! its works :) I play for a few hours tell bed time.  Next day.... yep you guessed it MINIDUMP.  What the Hell!!! This game is broken!!!!  Sorry Ironclad or whoever owns this pice of shit program you will not be getting any more of my money for your current or furture software!! not if this is how you run a company and suport your products!!  I have never posted a post like this on any form before.  The only reason I decided to post this time is becouse as a consumer that has purchaced many many computer games over the last 15 or so years I am seeing a trend in the industry.  More and more companies are releasing broken, or unfinished products and do little to nothing to make them work as intended.  We as consumers need to let them know this is not exceptiable. And the only way to do that is by letting them know we will not suport they products if they don't change.  And unfortunatly they only way to do that is by hitting there pocket book. 
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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top
I am complaining about is a "broken game" The hoops that you have to jump though to get this broken game to maybe work is a secondary moronic anoying thing.thank you for at least responding to my post. wish you had some help with it. oh well.
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hoops to jump through? are you too lazy to read and figure things out for yourself?

you say you have been buying games for 15 years and this is the first one to have some problems early on?

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top
You are either lying about being computer literate or the game. To launch the game you have to enter this screen


Now how can u miss the update game button?

Secondly, a minidump is not an error, it is a file describing your error. This supposed error that everyone has is not the same as your error, in fact i dont get any errors and yes i play multiplayer. So it this error can be on the programmer's side, at which point there are two (the pathfinding bug and the desync error) or its user side. Now from your commentary you get it from single player, so its likely not be the desync error.
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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top
For those of you who are getting the minidumps, are they happening after extended game play???

The game I've just been playing online with one other player seems to happen right at 3.5hrs...

Using the autosaved game file from 3hrs, 15 minutes, still resulted in a minidump just after 3.5 hrs... : (

It will be nice to have the 1.5 patch that might fix this but it'll be unfortunate to lose the 3.5hrs in the game that keeps crashing (more like 4.5 after several restarts from the 3 1/2 and then 3 1/4 hrs marks...)

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top
Sorry, 'just found this thread....



https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/307544



no replies needed...



Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top
I feel the reason you are getting a lot of critique is because of the manner at which you posted. You were very aggressive and quick to blame ironclad and label them as if the do not care.

The fact is, you can download the update anywhere on the net without having to register the game, it's only on the main website that you have to. There have been multiple updates to the game since release showing ironclads commitment to those who have purchased he game to make it the best they can.

My last issue with your post is that you claim that ironclad does nothing to support it's customers, did you report anything to stardock or ironclad, send them the minidump, the save game, your computer specs? I'd suggest doing that, it's the only way they can know what is happening and at least attempt to get it fixed.
Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top
All you had to do was 1) not use an obviously inflammatory statement in your message title and 2) not be insulting in your text. The Sins community has plenty of nice people who enjoy helping people solve their problems with the game. But you chose to bring attention to your problem in a spiteful manner, which is why you got the book thrown at you.

Next time you might want to think about your goal is, and then keep that in mind when trying to achieve it. This approach didn't work, so next time try something different.

-HM
Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top
I love how when someone has a problem they declare the game "broken" or "unbalanced" like their perspective = fact for everyone.

The game is great, there are minor problems but they are being addressed, overall it deserves all the high ratings it gets.
Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top
Ok so many of you want to know my computer specs. I have a AMD 2100+ CPU, 2GB RAM, ATI Radion 9800 Pro with 256MB RAM, SB Audigy 2 ZS, and running Windows XP Pro. Like I said it’s a bit older but more than meets the Min Requirements for this game. So for those that said "get a better/newer computer" you should insted, be telling Stardock/Ironclad that their min requirements are incorrect. As for the frustration of finding a DL link for the patching I went back and looked again for a link on their home page. https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/ Sorry still don't see a button for it. Or directions to get to it. Doesn’t really matter though, anyone can Google and find the link. And yes I still do think it is BS to force a customer that just purchased one of your products to register the game to get ANY support for that product. You can't even DL patches to FIX the game that should already be working when you buy it, unless you do so. Don't get me wrong if I thought that I was the only one, or even just part of a small hand full of consumers that was having this problem I wouldn't be so upset. But as I stated earlyer its dose not appear to be a little or infrequent error. Sorry about my original post not having paragraphs. Didn't realize I was back in college in constructive wrighting 101. And for the rest of you who had nothing but criticism about my frustrated postb and no advice or anything positive to say about it. Put your self in my shoes. How would you feel if you purchased something that your were able to use once and then can't use it again. example (a TV that turned on but then the next time you tried, you find out you have to take it back to the store to get it fixed. But when you go there the repair man says "Sorry we are working on getting something to fix that with, but it will take a few months.")Sorry for any typos miss spelling or any other grammatical error GEZZ. Their would be loads of peeps wanting to help you its a very friendly if lively communityLook at the replies. lol, yeah real friendly. :edited for a few spelling and grammatical errors
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Just because it happens for you doesn't mean it happens for everyone. And college courses are there for a reason, idiot.
No one likes reading walls of text.
The fact that there's no copy protection necessitates the required registration. You act like it takes more than 3 minutes...Stop whining, it would have taken you less time to register and download the updates than to write this post, which leads me to believe you pirated it.

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top
hes just a whiner...............ignore him and maybe he will give up and make the community have 1 less moron.