Aaaaaagh!

[blufive]

Downloading the patch for SimCity 4 from the EA games website requires a browser with ActiveX support - Internet Explorer, in other words. Do they even bother to tell you this? Nope, if you use another browser, the "patch" button just sits there and quietly ignores all your mouse-clicks. Grrr.

Why can't they just link to a downladable zip/executable, or use an in-game updater, or SOMETHING? Rather than using a proprietary method that triggers all sorts of warnings for those of us who have IE configured to be slightly more secure than it usually is?

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[fridgemagnet.livejournal.com]

Because EA are a lowest-common-denominator, would-like-to-write-everything-for-consoles company, and suck. I'm still pissed off that there's no SC4 for Macs. For fuck's sake - this is Sim City we're talking about.

[blufive.livejournal.com]

The main reason I'm so narked is that the rest of the site works just fine in mozilla, including all their fancy DHTML. They've been reading all the cross-browser stuff, and applying it (has a few probs in opera 7, though). And then on this one page, you can click the button until you're blue in the face, and nowt happens.

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[fridgemagnet.livejournal.com]

It smacks of people using cut-and-paste scripts and not really understanding what they're doing.