Fuck off with this bullshit. If you don’t have dedicated servers to offer the downloads off of, then don’t sell a game.

To me it seems they don’t exactly want to provide a great product to the consumers. They just want to cut costs as much as they can so they make as much money as they can. If they use P2P and let the consumers use it that’s $400 more for them a month.

I’m with you on this; this is insufficient.

It’s not rational to expect that a game install should need to install a p2p client, and if it does, merely putting a settings in a new control panel item is disingenuous. Any service that can potentially take up a significant amount of bandwidth needs to either be an application on the task bar, or at the very least, an icon in the system tray.

Nobody reads the EULAs because they’re not written for users, they’re written for lawyers. Expecting someone to parse through a 5-15 page document to find the one bit of language which might possibly suggest that a p2p client is installed is not reasonable, either. The only part of any EULA I regularly read are the parts about what is and is not acceptable behaviour in multiplayer games, since some companies actively try to discourage “smack talk”, and it’s useful to know this ahead of time.

Blizzard does this well – it notifies the user what’s happening when it’s happening, shows statistics for bandwidth usage, and isn’t constantly running. Pando’s Media Booster, on the other hand, runs on OS startup, and is absent from the task bar or the system tray. Expecting users to go to a new control panel or the services panel to manage something that’s potentially eating up significant amounts of bandwidth is deceptive.

I’ve since un-installed the game, and everything related to it. Fuck Turbine.