Things That Just Piss Me Off

Yeah, I still like to play pc games. Forget consoles, wiis, and such. I’m an old school pc gamer. I bought the game Empire Earth because i liked Age of Empires and thought it would be different. it was. Good game.

Then I bought the expansion pack and liked it too. Nothing to piss me off about the game . . . well, except the constant “you’re under attack” thing. I mean, you are pretty much always under attack, but the same voice, over and over again telling me i’m under attack gets very annoying very fast.

But this post is about Empire Earth 3. I bought it because I liked the first versions of the game. I thought cool! There must be new stuff!

Well it turns out I was right. There is. The game developers at Sirra in their ultimate wisdom decided the map creator was much much too easy to use in the first versions and I suppose they decided that gamers would much rather have a much more difficult time building new maps and scenarios.

Why do developers do this? It isn’t just games, it’s also with software. You get used to using some software or playing a game and when the company makes a newer version they do everything they can to make sure you have to learn everything all over again.

They move buttons to new locations, add difficulty to tasks that used to be easy, and add in new features we don’t even want.

If programmers and developers are so smart, why can’t they figure out the simplest of things like ONCE WE LIKE THE SOFTWARE MAJOR CHANGES ARE NOT AN IMPROVEMENT AND NOT WELCOME BY YOUR USERS!

Now at least I have a new coaster to use. The empire earth 3 cd is a nice place for my coffee cup and thats all it is good for.