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Pirates of the Burning Sea looked promising during development, right up untill they decided to use Sony as their publisher.
Their patcher estimated the download time at over 120 days. 45 minutes later it was 75% complete, 119 days to go. Way to go Sony, you mathematician marvels of magnificence.
Somewhere around 99% it got stuck, but was still moving, kinda. I let it run for hours and hours, nothing, so I restarted it. It resumed at the 40% mark. What beauty. I let it run even longer, stuck in the same spot. Restarted it, said a bunch of files were corrupt, redownloaded those, and then it went into Self-Termination mode.
The downloader would self-cancel (saying I cancelled it), self-terminate (who needs exception handling these days), or self-destruct itself, then self-update it's self-destructed self. It was the most magical thing I have ever seen, a living, breathing, piece of patching software. It knew it existed, and that it was sick, it was trying to fix itself, but ultimately, I had to uninstall it, end it's suffering as a confused, lost, Sony Patcher.
This is the first game in history, out of literally 1000's of games, I've uninstalled before playing it. Therefor, it is now in 1st place on my list of games that suck frog shit.
-Kuntz
