User Profile for Brad Dolman

Battlefield 1942 1.6.1c (Mac OS X)

Great Game, but a crappy porting job by Aspyr  

I gotta say, I love BF. The game is really diverse, fun, and addictive. However, the Mac port, by Aspyr, is dismal. It is probably the most buggy program I've ever bought and, considering how much it cost, that's very disappointing. Me and several friends bought BF as soon as it was available for the Mac (the very first local shipment, actually). That turned out to be a huge mistake as it was all but unplayable for the better part of a year until the latest update. Obviously, we were the beta program because it would crash everytime I played it within an hour. Anyway, alot of those bugs seem to be *finally* worked out with the latest patch but it always crashes a couple times during a couple hours of playing time. It seems I always stop playing when I get fed up with re-loading the game... not when I'm tired of playing. I've send a few support requests to Aspyr and found there support to be the absolute bare minimum required. The last time they took 4 days to respond and, when they finally did, only told me to remove the BF install and re-install again. Genious. Anyway, would I buy it again? Damn it, I probably would (while clenching my teeth tightly). Will I ever buy another Aspyr product? No. [alert admin]

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Friday, April 08 2005 @ 01:01 AM PDT

ProximitySync 5.1 (Mac OS X)

Omnivector response  

I'm sorry to hear that you are fed up with micro-payment "cripple ware". Thanks for choosing my forum to release your pent-up anger... I hope it helped!

At any rate, ProximitySync is not "cripple ware" - it is fully functional for you to try out. If you like it and want to continue using it, then please pay for it. If you don't like it, then don't pay for it or use it. Simple really.

Honestly, a lot of work went into ProximitySync and it provides much more functionality than the single solution your instructions attempt to address. There is no way that anyone could write a program that does what ProximitySync does "in 5 minutes". Far from it, in fact. Some people want that extra functionality and would rather pay $6 for it than spend countless hours trying to hack something together. I know that, if the choice had been available to me - especially given what I know now - I would have jumped at it. I'm not getting rich off this, trust me. I'm just trying to justify some of the time I've invested. I've got a solution that I, and many other people, are happy to have and that means a lot more to me.

Best Regards
Brad [alert admin]

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Friday, July 16 2004 @ 03:47 PM PDT

Re: Great Product, bad payment options  

Thanks for the feedback and the excellent rating! How would you prefer to pay? Please e-mail me and I'll do my best to implement it... or, if you prefer, contact me directly to arrange payment by mail (proximitysync@braddolman.com). Also, as an aside, what don't you like about PayPal? Cheers! Brad Dolman

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Sunday, December 21 2003 @ 04:02 PM PST