8+1 Ways to Annoy Players
April 9th, 2006 by Juuso HietalahtiPosted in Game Design, Game Development
There was a very useful post at TooNormal
Mike presented 8 +1 ways to annoy players:
1. Make sure your uninstaller is incomplete and broken.
2. Violate my quick-launch bar.
3. Use program groups/folders named after your company.
4. Release buggy un-tested games.
5. Force installations to the C: drive.
6. Self extracting archives make great installers.
7. Sh*t on my desktop.
8. Don’t test with non-standard or international keyboard layouts.
bonus: 9. Laptops don’t exist.
I can’t but agree.
April 9th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Oh my gosh that is way way way too true. I especially agree with #5 since I’ve now got my OS installed on the H: drive in my computer and games trying to install on the C: drive drive me nuts!
April 9th, 2006 at 11:23 am
I don’t agree with #3, what else can I use if not my company name?
Event big companies use the Program files\\ format.
April 9th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Sorry for spamming, but the last sentence in my previous post did not appear correctly.
I meant “Event big companies use the ‘Program FIles/company name/game name’ format”
April 9th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Sounds like a job for igLoader! (http://igloader.com/workflow.php)
April 9th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
10: Resize and move all the previously opened windows to the upper-left corner of the screen after returning from full-screen mode.
April 9th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
11: Open Game in FULLSCREEN mode without giving me any choise to Open in window, or even CLOSE/EXIT instead. I don’t care what game/program does that, but if it does, I uninstall/remove it without even trying…
April 9th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
I thought most games start in full screen mode. Then should have a windowed mode option and of course an exit game option.
April 9th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Sadly too many games do that. And when they do that, I mostly wish I’d be near that programmer of game and have brick to bash bit sanity on that head. Reason is that almost always fullscreen mode seem to mess my desktop, and I really REALLY really hate to tweak it back same as it were. Besides that, I prefer play in windowed mode so I can jump between programs.
It does not take rocket scientist to ask simple question, fullscreen or windowed? when game first start, and use that as default unless user change it from game settings.
April 9th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
He’s talking about the Start Menu. In the Start Menu, you should see a list of programs, not companies. For the Program Files directory you are correct, you are supposed to use your company name there.
April 10th, 2006 at 8:14 am
http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/642479/
April 11th, 2006 at 11:13 am
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April 29th, 2006 at 7:13 am
I agree with those except for #3 in some cases: it’s good for some companies to do this. Mostly just companies that you’ll have a lot of games installed for, like Maxis (The Sims, SimCity, etc.) or Blizzard (even though they don’t do this, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for them with Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, WoW, etc.).
Heh heh, good list though.