A question about PC game registration

[alanschu]

I'm just curious how many people take the time to register the PC games they buy?

 

I usually register all of my games, since it provides some feedback to the company about the types of games I am interested in and whatnot, and I was just curious if other people did the same thing.

 

 

The reason why I brought this up is I just registered Madden 07, and it asks questions such as whether I have a DVD drive, my preferred gaming platform of choice, and so on.

 

The DVD one in particular caught my eye, because I know a lot of people in North America are annoyed that more games don't come out on DVD (though it's less of an issue now IMO). It's hardly scientific, but I'm the only person in my group of PC gaming friends who bothers to register my games, so maybe PC gamers are unknowingly giving themselves a quieter voice than they really need?

 

Discuss. Or not.

[Pidesco]

The only games I've ever registered are NWN, KOTOR, and NWN2. And I generally don't answer those kinds of questionnaires.

[Diamond]

I registered NWN1+expansions. And surveys bore the heck out of me too, especially old Interplay ones that pop up on every game startup if you don't complete it.

[kirottu]

I accidently registered NWN. That

[Deraldin]

I think I might have one or two games out of the 100 or so that I have.

[Gorgon]

Whats the point ?

 

Usually all you get for your trouble is spam and access to an FAQ database.

[alanschu]

Whats the point ?

 

Usually all you get for your trouble is spam and access to an FAQ database.

 

You provide feedback to the game company about the game styles you are interested in. You also provide hardware specifications such as DVD drive capability.

 

People claim that DVDs should have been the mainstay for years now, but if the registrations that they get are from people that all answer 'no' to that question, why should they think that the bulk of their target base does have DVD drives?

 

I understand that the biggest vote is the sale itself (money talks), but I guess I just figure that taking the time to tell them the game types that I am interested in, as well as some information about my computer and my gaming preferences is worth it.

 

Oh well.

[Jorian Drake]

Whats the point ?

 

Usually all you get for your trouble is spam and access to an FAQ database.

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I think about registering NWN2 later, becouse thats the only way to play in PW-s.

Edited November 13, 2006 by jorian

[Morgoth]

Well I don't do it. I'm just too impatient and arrogant to spend another few minutes after installation to give teh publisher "valuable" infos.

[Kaftan Barlast]

I never register any software unless Im forced to. All you normally end up with is an increase in spam activity.

[alanschu]

So the consensus it that people don't bother registering because they don't want to waste the time on it, and feel as though they will receive additional spam?

[Pidesco]

I'd say so.

[Volourn]

I register games once, and awhile. NWN2 is the fiurst game I have bought in DVD form for the PC.

[astr0creep]

There was a time when registering a game would give a free one-year subscription to a video games magazine, with Demo CDs and all.

 

Those were good times indeed. "

[Darque]

I never register.

[alanschu]

Well, thanks for the info.

 

I think registering is particularly important, but the initial impression seems to put me in a minority.

[angshuman]

I usually don't "register" in the traditional sense. Several games I've purchased recently have had some form of implicit registration, e.g., Steam games, Guild Wars, etc. The only "survey" I ever completed was Valve's excellent hardware survey where some script automatically scanned my hardware within a fraction of a second, prepared a report and sent it to Valve, and also showed me some nice bar charts on the data they had collected thus far.

[Hell Kitty]

I think I registered The Sims way back when, possibly needed to download official tools for modding, but I can't quite remember.

 

So no, because I'm lazy and don't care. And I delete the registration folders that some games install.

[karka]

I always register my games.

Edited November 13, 2006 by karka

[Slowtrain]

Put me in the Never Register category. Except occaisonally when I am forced to do so in order to download patches and what not.

[Dark_Raven]

I do not recall registering any games. Never saw a need to do so.

[alanschu]

I do not recall registering any games. Never saw a need to do so.

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It's just an additional way to provide feedback for what you as a gamer want from game companies.

[alanschu]

Oh, one more thing, since I realized it later on.

 

Admittedly there's not much tangible incentive to do so, but I did think it was pretty cool that Electronic Arts gave every person that registered Ultima 9 a free remastered CD with all of the patches built right in.

 

Also included was a letter of apology for the state that the original game was sent in.

 

That was pretty neat.

[Diogo Ribeiro]

I've registered very few games. The Sims 2 and Beyond Good and Evil were two of them, and I can't remember many others beyond that. When I don't register games it's because either a) sometimes there isn't a way to register the games (old games, for instance), or b) sometimes it just so happens Nintendo doesn't like Portugal and won't let me register my Gamecube, Cube titles, Gameboy Advance and GBA titles at all because they'll only accept other countries.

[kumquatq3]

Never register. If they force me, I'll use other means to get around it.

 

You want my info, pay me for it. I paid you for the game.