ALL IS FORGIVEN THRUSTMASTER

Well what do you know?

After not bothering to even plug my Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience Racing Wheel into my new PC because I thought it faulty and Microsoft not stupid enough to program their operating system so that other peoples devices are broken when they are not...turns out I was wrong!

Microsofot really ARE that stupid!

Might explain now why I suddenly got given a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate?!

So today I plug in my Thrustmaster Joystick, as I bought IL-2 Sturmovich Ultimate Edition yesterday and then forgot all about it, I then decide to actually pull my own thumb out and plug in the raciung wheel.

Oddly in the software the number 5 input, the accelerator, does not suddenly light up and refuse to go out like it did the day after the Windows 7 Pro I bought through Amazon declared it was fake, despite holograms on the disc...albeit stating 'Dell' too! Lol.

I really thought the racing wheel was faulty, well it did come in a very tatty box and I was not aware that PC World were selling refurbished crap at that stage. Or that Argos, Littlewoods Catalogue, Very Catalogue (so likely Isme too) and B&Q were all doing it. Explains the blaise attitude I had when confronting them about it.

In fact...well I can say it here buyt those that I attack on my corruption blog ... well this blaise attitude was what first gave them away and how easily I spotted the next lot at it and then manipulated each of them to getting it oin tape. This by admissions, admissions by lack of denial and the usual stuff like contradictions. In fact on many occasions among my documentation and recordings the word 'contradictions' is somewhat of an understatement because on many occasions I have between three and six people saying completely different things.

I could easily claim that they are liars based on the fact only one reason can possibly be true. However I already happened to kknow what the truth was, I just did not tell them this, and the simple truth is that in the case of the six different answers...none of them were true.

So after starting to build a computer I still have not finished nor have I even added the graphics card I wanted to get I have also not been looking at driving games because Windows was screwing up my Racing Wheel! Hmm now that I think about it I would have moaned to Microsoft and I would have stated the issue with the wheel, anything I suspect I always state because...well, lol, I do get it right mostly as seen on my other and very popular corruption blog. Might be exactly why I got a free ultimate edition of Windwos 7? How sad is that? My most popular blog is my corruption one?! I wish it was any of the others. In fact I wish I had not felt I had to start a corrup[tion blog at all. But this country has been in a dark place in recent years and it would only get darker...well until, I thought, everyone knew the truth and the real culprits. Or started to call for the heads of the real culprits and not being fobbed off with some half-witted frontl;ine staff, jobsworths without an ounce of sense to know what is and was going on right under their noses? Lol.

Now I can start looking at driving games again and start drooling? Hmm perhaps 'Raving and Drooling?' lol. Old.. umm.. music reference there.

Also, sorry Thrustmaster 9or Guillemot) ... I take it all back, lol.

WATCH OUT FOR THE DOGS

In all my researching of computer games of late, and being out of gaming for several years and had not discovered RPGs last time around the were... are a lot of them to work through, some were exciting to begin with then... not.

In older titles this is usually down to bad customer reviews. In titles bit yet released this is down to hype, or more precisely over-hyped.

Hype is often stated, at least I think, by the publishing companies and the oby train they are there in all honesty. Yes they may bang on to the software house about how much advertising costs and his much they need it to get their large share of the profits and dog the software houses to rush games.

Today there is little need for them and in all honesty probably do note harm than good. Sometimes they are a little more subtle and simply show you a running game in all its graphical splendour. They may do a few remarks and then the fans do the rest.

One particular title which is a very good example is Watch Dogs. I was very interested in this title and the pictures looked out of this world. Now I have this odd thing about not liking third person perspective games, or used to have, but seem to have gotten over this with a couple of very good titles. Mass Effect did the third person particularly well I thought. So did Sleeping Dogs but I like the ones that were over the shoulder and then change to first person or target view on pressing the right mouse button.

Watch Dogs got released and within a short space of time there were strange rumblings among gamers. First off all the graphics were not the same as those shown at one of the big events. I did read some complaints about it being short and that was an old complaint of mine.

I went off the idea of getting the game but today I saw this report about the title selling in figures that made no sense. In the first three months the game sold a whopping 8 million. In the following three months it sold 9 million?! I have to admit to reading it wrong and thinking it only sold 1 million. Lol. Now it is entirely possible that it could have gone on sale in more countries in the second the months. Not sure how but I guess some would have needed to be 'toned down' maybe to meet certain certifications to do with violence and sex? Still even so it's still peculiar. If not its downright had scratching!

I was totally put off after being completely on board. I know that I most certainly was not alone. I find this quite bizarre and wonder if this happens all the time? On the other hand I think of Tesco Supermarket in the UK who have been making it the company is taking me than it did. Someone I know right this was down to embezzling but I can't see that. I think it s note to do with seeking the company and ripping another rip off company. Well what goes around comes around and the only people to give a shit about that are the rich people, solicitors and news media because they are household names. Good God when will the media learn?

Oh well wait, people do like these reality show based upon supposed talent? Hmm maybe I have been looking at some things all wrong?

I personally find it completely bizarre and when I use words like 'bizarre' it is because I cannot think of a realistic reason. Hence 'bizarre'.

Still maybe there is some plausible reason this has occurred.

When I talk about people with... 'odd views' I can state that I remembered a webpage tonight speaking about a title I now am currently playing but has since issues.

This is Sleeping Dogs and oh my word I cannot explain how much I love this on so many levels. But it was obvious from my early moments that something was amiss. It actually ruined the early moments of the game and I thought it was going to be unplayable. The control was slow, clunky and unresponsive and I was heartbroken at looking at the visuals and knowing it had martial arts, I've trained a fair deal in Wing Chun Kung Fu, in it and at in Hong Kong, a place I have wanted to go for years along with Foshan.

I searched the Internet for tips, solutions or whether there was an update that solved the issue. I stumbled across a website with a few other pc gamers complaining about the same thing. But then another bunch of pc gamers, console gamers I expect it from, telling the guy he should be thankful they bought it to the PC and that he was unreasonable to expect then to re-write the game for the PC to take advantage of the mouse and the keyboard. When he stated that the mouse and keyboard were superior controllers than gamepads some actually disagreed with him?! Umm... no.... just, NO!

To be honest I thought they were console owners making these statements and not very bright ones at that?! Let's take a look at what's wrong with these statements...

1 So it's not financially rewarding to rewrite the controller post of code for the PC? Let us say that they sell 6 million in each platform? So a small rewrite of the code for control is bit worth another six million or more in sales? Dumb-arses.

2 These people are showing that they do not give a shit about their customers and YOUR defending then?! Are you for real?

The poster on that forum was right in stating it was laziness. I turned up the mouse sensitivity in game but it did nothing. So I went back into settings and found the sensitivity had reset itself? Odd.

However my particular mouse, Logitech G602, has on board buttons to adjust the DPI and that seemed to make enough of a difference. Happy Days!

I also have to state that this was the first time I bought a title that I actually thought I would have to buy a Gamepad to pay it? That had never happened before outside of FIFA, umm that other famous football title I had on the Playstation Portable? Yes I owned A Playstation! Just the one mind and I have to admit to having a passing interest in the Vita. Yes, I said that too! Lol. But then I never really travel or go far enough away or long enough to use one. However now that I think about it I do think it might have been more sensible to have gone for the Vita than the Advent Tegra Note I currently have! Hmm if I could like up my not so good Gamepad to it but more importantly if I could link my portable fold up keyboard to it. Oh no, now I cannot stop thinking about that now? Lol.

Due to unforeseen... financial circumstances I have still to finish my PC and still have... errm, two posts to get, ooh no three. Well I silk have to test my racing wheel to see if it works normally again? That might sound weird but the wheel only played up when Microsft realised I had an unlicensed copy of Windows and that played up too. Not installed it since they sent me an official copy. So have my fingers crossed I don't need one! Especially as the reviewers out there do not have a good word to say about one, consistently anyway, outside of the Logitech G27. I am really disappointed in Thrustmaster as many years ago they were synonymous with quality. This is true up to £100 and over that it jumps to £200 and then another £150 or more, more for the next model which is the GT500 I think it's called. Bummer.

So yeah I want mine to be still operational. Otherwise it came from PC World and did not last a completion of a single title, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. Mine is the Ferrari GT Experience.

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SONY STILL THE FONY

Oh dear!

I was looking around to see if there were any decently made and reliable racing wheels in case I need to replace mine, annoyingly had just bought a damn stand for it when it played up.

While looking around I found this mad website that stated that the Playstation 4 has a chip inside it so that you have to buy new peripherals with a security chip inside to work?!

What the bloody hell?!

They give some excuse about polling rate but that is complete bullshit I am afraid, especially on new hardware, what are they incompetent?!

They just never change! Bloody glad I never bought one I would be furious! So if you have an expensive device you was using on your PS3 then it won't work on the PS4?!

It states that some, I imagine many, owners have not been too pleased and who could blame them?!

Apparently this was discovered with the release of PS4 and I think someone tried to use a Logitech G27 Wheel? Oh they were only over £220 to buy in the UK and the ones available to use are two low quality Thrustmaster models no one likes!

I don't even know what happened to Thrustmaster?! They have fallen so far from grace it is unbelievable and instead of only looking at Thrustmaster I look at everything else but Thrustmaster now!

It is funny as the last generation was so over hyped but absolute shite it's not true, I am now reading developers statements about how crap and difficult it was to code for the PS3 yet is cell chip was supposed to be the bees knees?! Then there were three people buying second hand ones and trusting Sony by allowing updates only to discover their Blu-Ray drives not working and then that Sony uploaded software to their machine that detected it s previously jailbroken and wrecked the drive in an extremely childish and underhanded manner and obviously only see your hard earned cash you have them as RENT for the privilege of using their substandard hardware?!

Now they are at it all over again and once again rather incompetently, or don't care and do it because they can, placed hardware inside akin to posting a big sign saying "Screw You?! We are about to!!"

Going at things longer than Apple, Sony remind me why a brand I loved so much a long time ago have fallen out of favour with me. It is a shame that gamers do not have more scruples and will power to not give them money to teach them a lesson?!

I would have bought a Sony 4K TV in 2015 but I think I will go elsewhere? Panasonic maybe this time? Possibly with the camera too? Hmm I will see if and when the time comes. There is a Lumix camera I like with a 63x zoom I think it was?

They just cannot help themselves can they these companies? They start of small and humble and moaning about being bullied by the big companies and yet once they attain a certain size they themselves turn into another devil incarnate!

Probably why we have stagnated in the last decade or two.

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