by Tdarcos » Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:47 am
I have tried several of the on-line games that are advertised on YouTube videos, and while I am am atheist, their performance/behavior can best be described by this Bible quote: "“And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN." (Daniel 5:25) which means, roughly, "You have been judged and found not just wanting, but utter garbage."
First, let's take a look at "Evony: The King's Return," only in my case, I returned the disk space this piece of trash wasted. Now, I'm not referring to the oft-repeated methods in the game to push in-app purchases; it's a free game, I understand the whole idea is to get you to pay something. That, I don't have a problem with. That the game is more-or-less a "bait and switch" since the game as offered is not the same, is not a big issue, but it's still an issue.
No, those are not what puts this game into the "get rid of this immediately" territory. For a large game - the full app is about 1.2 gigabytes - typical practice is you download either the whole app package, or you download a small 2-3 megabyte installer, that installs the whole app. Then it creates a shortcut to the application, and you run the installed app. If there are updates, they are usually "small" at 20 megabytes or less. But this is not how this app works.
Instead, the "boot" installer downloads the full 180 megabyte primary installer, which installs the rest of the 1.1 gigabyte game! And if you quit the program, you have to reload the entire 1.2 gb to play it again! While this is ridiculous, and unacceptable, it's nothing compared to the other game.
Our star offender in my small Rogues Gallery is "Call of Dragons," which I discovered was not quite usable because I was unable to figure out how to play. So I might have simply closed it from the task bar, only it goes full screen. Okay, I'll just use task manager to terminate it. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete to bring up the abort task menu, and... nothing. Multiple invocations of the 3-finger-salute are ignored. Fortunately I figured the menu option to exit, then having done so, uninstalled it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't care if your application cures cancer and AIDS, solves world hunger, and causes world peace, if I can't close your application except in ways you permit, your application is malware! What on earth is a supposed game doing that it has to trap me? Bitcoin mining? Sending spam emails? I don't know, but when your program does everything it can to prevent me from leaving except on its terms, I can only presume misconduct.
There is no justification for a game to commit such behavior. Avoid both of these programs as unacceptable, and especially Call of Dragons, as the plague it is.
I have tried several of the on-line games that are advertised on YouTube videos, and while I am am atheist, their performance/behavior can best be described by this Bible quote: "“And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN." (Daniel 5:25) which means, roughly, "You have been judged and found not just wanting, but utter garbage."
First, let's take a look at "Evony: The King's Return," only in my case, I returned the disk space this piece of trash wasted. Now, I'm not referring to the oft-repeated methods in the game to push in-app purchases; it's a free game, I understand the whole idea is to get you to pay something. That, I don't have a problem with. That the game is more-or-less a "bait and switch" since the game as offered is not the same, is not a big issue, but it's still an issue.
No, those are not what puts this game into the "get rid of this immediately" territory. For a large game - the full app is about 1.2 gigabytes - typical practice is you download either the whole app package, or you download a small 2-3 megabyte installer, that installs the whole app. Then it creates a shortcut to the application, and you run the installed app. If there are updates, they are usually "small" at 20 megabytes or less. But this is not how this app works.
Instead, the "boot" installer downloads the full 180 megabyte primary installer, which installs the rest of the 1.1 gigabyte game! And if you quit the program, you have to reload the entire 1.2 gb to play it again! While this is ridiculous, and unacceptable, it's nothing compared to the other game.
Our star offender in my small Rogues Gallery is "Call of Dragons," which I discovered was not quite usable because I was unable to figure out how to play. So I might have simply closed it from the task bar, only it goes full screen. Okay, I'll just use task manager to terminate it. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete to bring up the abort task menu, and... nothing. Multiple invocations of the 3-finger-salute are ignored. Fortunately I figured the menu option to exit, then having done so, uninstalled it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't care if your application cures cancer and AIDS, solves world hunger, and causes world peace, if I can't close your application except in ways you permit, your application is malware! What on earth is a supposed game doing that it has to trap me? Bitcoin mining? Sending spam emails? I don't know, but when your program does everything it can to prevent me from leaving except on its terms, I can only presume misconduct.
There is no justification for a game to commit such behavior. Avoid both of these programs as unacceptable, and especially Call of Dragons, as the plague it is.