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It happened to me a few times, mostly when I bought single game. I still remember the last game was Empire Earth 3, the game is not playable, which means compatible problem so I was not even able to see what the game was all about. I played Empire Earth 1 and 2 are a ok but version 3 like being robbed.

There are many single games release every month so the chance is quite high to get yourself upset from your purchase. But I have never think about it happened on online game as well.

Honestly, if the game you don't have fun was your own business but if it was poor quality then it was something else.

I drove 120km to buy Pirates of the Burning Sea today, since I was really sick of playing F2P so it was really excited to get this game and start installing on my computer. It took me nearly one hour to get all patches done, ok, it's fine, the 2xCD does not mean anything because it's online game. Then, I login to the game, gosh, the game glitched everywhere on the screen, it's not possible to play like that. I changed all settings trying to get improvement but still same problems. When you started combat with another ship, it enter into another exclusive combat mode, this cut scene brings my memory back to least 10 years ago, many games used this kind of technology.  

My PC is always updated to the latest, surely, something like 4GB memory or Nvidea 8800 GTX, Quad 4 CPU, in order to keep better compatibility so I did not use Vista, I knew something wrong about the game.

I hope this was the last time ripped off by SOE.

Yeah, Frontlines: Fuel of War.  It would take a long time to get into a game due to the glitchy 'find a server' page.  You open it, nothing appears.  Wait a while.  Refresh.  Nothing.  Wait a while.  Server list appears.  Then it would randomly throw up a new server every few seconds, after having waited for a while for the server list to fully refresh, into the list.  This would lead to double clicking on a server, only to have it change and put you into the wrong one.  Then, you would get into the right server, but find out it was actually 0 population because it didn't refresh the player total properly.  Sometimes you would have to back all the way out to the first menu and then go back into the server screen to get it to work at all.  

After the 5th time of this, I walked into my roommates bedroom with the two disks and snapped them in half into his wastebasket.  He was a bit shocked, then laughed.  He just knows how I am.  50 bucks down the drain for a game that had a better demo than full version.  Yikes.  Didn't mind the game play, however.  It took some skill to play (had to lead your shot if firing from a distance, and couldn't spam your fire).  Too bad.

- LC

That's funny. I didn't buy Frontlines because of the crappy browser system, which in fact is a shame as the gameplay was pretty good.

One game I regret buying is a game called Space Force Captains. It's like HoMM in space. Except the fact that the game was pretty much internal alpha version material. It was really dreadful. I was one of the few lucky people which didn't have the game crashing on me, but that doesn't matter, as the maps are so bugged you can't even complete them. Not to mention every gameplay factor that remotely works is a blatant rip off of HoMM, and rest of them is worthless.

I also regret HG:L. Crappy chat system meant no interaction between players, not to mention the game crushing bugs... I recall a certain memory leak which happened to every one which would make the game crash after a few hours. I think a lot of it has been fixed now... thinking I'll retry the game sometime soon.

For me it was SimCity Societies. Game literally does not work on over 40% of all high end systems and no one knows why. 50 dollar beer coaster.

Take a look at its reviews.

I remember in my early days of gaming that if I didn't like a game I could bring it back.  I'm serious.  It was about 12 years ago.  I actually went to Babbage's and told them that the game sucks and they took it back.

I guess this didn't fare too well with some of the developers.  Or maybe it was just the fact that people would bring the discs home and copy them (I promise I never did this, I just don't think it's right).  But I wish that this were still the case.  Can you imagine if you didn't like a game you could have the option to say, "It sucks, take this piece of garbage back."  I think most people would keep the good games, even if they played them all the way through, just because they would appreciate the quality.

But I promise, I'm not making that up.  I actually did it a couple of times.  One time, I admit, I lied and said the game would not run on my system from crashing, but they still took it back.

You don't see that at all any more.

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I remember those days very well.  It was also back then that the word "patch" was unheard of.

I do remember, back in 1997 Babbages started to change their policy.  I remember taking a game back and they just gave me the same game but unopened. They didnt do cash anymore for opened games. (so the next day I took the unopened game they gave me with the receipt andf got my money back).  Now they open the games lol.

Hellgate London.  I still curse the day I picked that damned thing up from the shelves.  A few of my friends were playing it and they were supposedly having fun but for the longest time I refused to buy it.  Then for some reason I just went and spent $60 on it, the worst $60 I have ever spent, it still bothers me to this day.  It's not like I can take it back or sell it to anybody mostly because nobody wants it.

it happened to me once.....i buy a game because of good advertisement but when i played it, im really upset and disappointed in that game....

Originally posted by Enigma

For me it was SimCity Societies. Game literally does not work on over 40% of all high end systems and no one knows why. 50 dollar beer coaster.

Take a look at its reviews.

I don't remember being upset by any game I bought, but Fable for the Xbox would probably be close. Might have been good, but I read too much on its "promises"

Same problem with Horizons (now called Istaria), I read a lot on the "promises" and none of it delivered. Was supposed to be an awesome game...I guess this would be a game I was really upset with.