Sunday, June 25, 2000

Ranting -- 1:28 am CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

I've been a PC Gamer reader since '95 or '96. Back in the early days, you could buy the CD-ROM edition and count on getting some good demos. That changed. Nowadays, you can spend $7-8 on the CD-ROM edition of PC and you have a good chance of getting a defective CD. I've been getting defective CDs since late 1997, and have seriously cut down on buying the magazine at all. My last issue was in December 1998.

Well, I was tempted by the July 2000 issue, in which the CD-ROM is purported to have free copies of a dozen classic games--good stuff too, like Ultima Underworld and X-Com. I bought it and took it home, expecting that the CD wouldn't work. Sure enough, it didn't work. I wrote to PC Gamer to request a new CD. Haven't seen one now after 2 weeks of waiting. I've exchanged the magazine four more times and still don't have a working CD. I've tried the CDs in 3 different computers, and none can read them. Numerous others have had the same problem, and PC Gamer doesn't seem to care.

This is inexcusable. It's disappointing to miss out on some of these good games. It's infuriating to spend $7-8 on a magazine primarily to get a CD-ROM which doesn't work (the magazine itself certainly isn't worth that much). It's disheartening to see the lack of concern PC Gamer shows toward its readers. I'll never again buy any copy of PC Gamer. They've lost me for good. And I'm sure they don't care.

News for 06/25/2000

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