Direct2Drive has really P****ed me off

[Niode]

I bought the GTAIV Complete pack from D2D the other day seeing as it was £5. Bargain I thought. I wish I hadn't fucking bothered. You can't use the old Download Manager to download games anymore. You have to use this piece of shit called Comrade. All would be fine and dandy if it wasn't for the fact that whenever Steam is open it pauses your downloads. Great... I'll just go remove everything from Comrade that isn't my D2D games. Oh what's that? I can't. FUCKING BRILLIANT. I'll send a support ticket off to D2D. I get a reply:
"While you are playing a game all downloads are paused. It is the same as using Steam. You download a game and start another, the download becomes paused."

Err... No dumb shit. I'm not playing a game. Steam is just open in the background. I politely inform the guy that I'm not playing a game, Steam is just running. I use it to talk to my buddies, so it's not an option to have off while I download a game. I haven't had a reply.

To top it off I've tried and tried to get Download Manager to download my file but whenever I click the link it just goes into comrade. I've even tried removing Comrade, no dice. Still tries to open comrade. Every single browser does the exact same thing. There is absolutely fucking no chance in hell that I'm going to attempt to download 30GB of files in the Firefox download manager. I've tried doing big files before and if something interrupts that's it, no matter how many rain dances or virgin sacrifices you do, it just will not resume that fucking partial download.

Eugh.

Fuck Direct2Drive. This is the second fucking problem I've had with them (bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 complete and that doesn't work. On anything, even in XP Mode VM, what a joke).

I'm seriously just considering pirating this shit. Fuck it.

[J T]

I know your pain!

I've bought several games from D2D that wouldn't work. Granted, it's probably more the game publishers fault than D2D, but I have a huge Steam library that mostly works fine while about a quarter of my D2D games don't: Cold Fear won't work, Stubbs the Zombie won't work, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 won't work... among others. I did get Stubbs working on a borrowed machine long enough to realize I hate that game though, so no real loss that it won't work on mine.

I bought GTAIV from D2D a long time ago and was frustrated that I had to clear out like a 1/4 of my harddrive to make room for both the download and install, though I later have taken to downloading to an external drive and installing to the main.

I didn't know Download Manager isn't working anymore. That sucks! I hate Comrade.

If you can download direct though, here is a program that will help you out:
http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

IDM (Internet Download Manager, not Intelligent Dance Music... I know, it threw me for awhile too) allows you to pause downloading and it also speeds up downloads by starting multiple downloads and combining them into one (at least, I think that's how it works). You can download a free trial version at the link above.

[Niode]

Wow. That reading that post back makes me sound like a right asshole. Haha. Man my bad back is affecting my mood. That sucks... Never mind. I feel a bit better now, I guess I'm just going to have to resort to downloading when I'm out. Just quitting everything but Comrade and see where I get. To be fair when Steam is not running I do get 1.2MB/s so it shouldn't take long to download the entire 30GB clusterfuck that is GTAIV Complete.

Also, HDD space isn't really an issue with my 6TB of storage. I really need to shift all these drives into a NAS and get an SSD and a 2TB drive for games for use in my PC at some point. It's just getting the time...

[Quiet Flight]

I did get Stubbs working on a borrowed machine long enough to realize I hate that game though, so no real loss that it won't work on mine.

its a very real loss, stubbs is great

[jfrost]

I bought Bioshock off D2D and realized and I had made a horrible mistake after downloading Comrade. What fucking garbage piece of software that is.

I re-bought the game on Steam just so that I wouldn't have to deal with it. The only other games I bought at D2D were OutRun 2006, which was fine and didn't give me any headaches, and Darksiders, which registers on Steam.

Now I'll only buy stuff there that registers on Steam, otherwise I won't bother with the horrible interface.

[Niode]

I bought Bioshock off D2D and realized and I had made a horrible mistake after downloading Comrade. What fucking garbage piece of software that is.

I re-bought the game on Steam just so that I wouldn't have to deal with it. The only other games I bought at D2D were OutRun 2006, which was fine and didn't give me any headaches, and Darksiders, which registers on Steam.

Now I'll only buy stuff there that registers on Steam, otherwise I won't bother with the horrible interface.

Yeah. Thankfully GTAIV is GfW (wow never thought I'd say that) so it still integrates with my XBL profile and things like that so it's got the better online functionality compared to Gamespy's horrible service.

I don't think I'm going to buy anything else from D2D from now on unless it unlocks in Steam. I had a better experience with EA when I bought Dragon Age Origins complete... Now that's saying something!

[AmishSamurai]

I've heard nothing but bad about D2D, so I've avoided it more or less.

Also, nb4 Inazuma.

[J T]

I mostly buy from Steam and GOG, but I do like D2D for some things. I think they are a good option for smaller, DRM-free titles. They have an icon that lets you know if the game is DRM-free. I think this is what D2D is best for, if the game is newer and not likely to show up on gog.com. They also have the occassional good sale that is worth jumping on. There are a handful of titles that you will only find at D2D... usually trashy stuff like Bikini Karate Babes, or random casual titles.