EA Downloader

[Ninja]

What a crappy piece of software! Oh wait, I should have known, the name starts with EA. Purchased the Euro Force expansion but I can't download MY game that I purchased because EA's downloader program keeps erroring out. It loads and then I get this little error prompt that says "Core" with a button to click "Ok". I've tried downloading and re-installing the downloader to no avail. What a piece of crap.

[Roo]

Hey, I'm one step ahead of you...I got the downloader to install fine, it was when I was downloading the game, SF, it kept erroring out. I ended up going out and buying the friggin disks...I had sent EA a couple of emails, but of course I never received a reply.....If I have about 10 Capt. Morgans, I may have to try it again though...:)

[Ninja]

Well if I don't get a response from them at all I'll just dispute the CC charges for failing to deliver a product which I purchased from them. Won't look good on thier record if a number of people do the same thing. :D I'm gonna spend some more time trying to find a work around though.

[Ninja]

Fixed it. Turns out EA Downloader no likey IE7 beta. Uninstalled IE7 beta and everything worked. EA and thier downloader still sucks though, they should at least have a second download option.

[Platypus_Corpse]

Fixed it. Turns out EA Downloader no likey IE7 beta. Uninstalled IE7 beta and everything worked. EA and thier downloader still sucks though, they should at least have a second download option.


YeAH! those wankers suxr big time. No really any more EA and BIll are on the same sht list . When i buy a game i expect it to come in a new box with a book that i can touch and open. But hey this wasnt a new game just 3 new crapy maps and some new crapy guns and some real crapy eruo tank thingy?

[Ninja]

YeAH! those wankers suxr big time. No really any more EA and BIll are on the same sht list . When i buy a game i expect it to come in a new box with a book that i can touch and open. But hey this wasnt a new game just 3 new crapy maps and some new crapy guns and some real crapy eruo tank thingy?
No doubt! I played some of the new maps and thought "I paid $10 for this?". We'll see how the play online.

[Sgt_Sl@ughter]

Much like my anger management classes, EA is starting to pi$$ me off! I managed to fill out the EA Downloader information (surprised there was no place for my social insurance number, shoe size, etc.) Only to find out to proceed I have to now go set up a freekin GameSpy account. After getting mad and throwing a few things (luckily not the PC) I went ahead and set up a GameSpy account. Things calmed down as I downloaded and installed the booster pack.....NOW WHAT???

I clicked on the Play button in the downloader and kept getting an error saying to Play these maps I need to download the Euro Forces ?!?!? ISNT THAT WHAT I JUST DID YOU F'IN PIECE OF :mad: ....(sorry !!....think happy thoughts)

Bottom line is you have to make your GameSpy NickName the same as your BF2 Profile login name. So I changed it to sgt_sl@ughter in GameSpy and got into the games only to think the same as NinjaAssassin "I paid $10 (plus US exchange) for this!"

One of the single player maps is pretty much a battle with the Crappy Euro Tank Thingys (as Plat states). that should be real fun for the people who don't get to a tank first in Multiplayer.

Oh well "Live and Learn" they say....I just wish I would LEARN :(

[Parasitic]

Just for reference you guys already have a gamespy account. It's the account you created when you first played BF2.

[Sgt_Sl@ughter]

Correct you are Beaner....apparently part of my problem was that my GameSpy username is actually an old e-mail address (have since switched ISP's).

However my point of contention is not that it is difficult to create an account but rather seems a bit (no ALOT) ridiculous to jump through all those hoops just to play a game.

I personally would rather pay twice the amount to get a tangible product. With the EA Downloader I had no apparent control over where it installs the files, etc. So now I have Battlefield files on my E: drive as well as scattered maps on the C: drive. (can I simply cut and paste them in the mods directory??? or will that screw things up?) I have many partitions and like to keep the C drive free for when Windows blows up and I have to reformat I don't loose all my game files, downloads etc. Speaking of which.....what happens when (not if) the hardrive dies and/or gets replaced, reformatted, etc. how do you get the Booster pack info??? Download it again?? for Free???

Obviously I don't expect anyone from OSS to have the answers to these questions but I think the on-line game downloads should be a CD image format that you can burn and put in a closet for the inevitable. I have been through this whole gammit with on-line music and now have several megs of songs that I bought that are useless because the licence file has gotten corrupt and I cannot re-download.

..thats "The Way I See It"

[GOAT]

Damn, I just ran into all the crap you guys are talking about about a week ago but still haven't got it rectumfied after 7 e-mails back and forth with EA idiots telling me it has something to do with nothing I complained about. Damn IDIOTS!Then they send me a survey asking if the answer I received took care of my problem? HELL NO! and I gave it to them good in the comments section. Haven't heard from them since and I guess I have to go the Credit Card route and not pay it/challenge it like you suggested! No hope for the little guys (that's me)

[Pongo647]

Hell, after all my wrestling with euro farce and the downloader, I now have it rectified but I no longer have special forces installed. I just don't want to touch it now cause it works! I used to have some respect for EA games.