Yeah. It's more than likely just an honest mistake, not some malicious attempt to force people to buy the game, and it will probably get sorted out shortly after they reopen the authentication...
Yeah. It's more than likely just an honest mistake, not some malicious attempt to force people to buy the game, and it will probably get sorted out shortly after they reopen the authentication servers after launch. It's still a pretty funny and annoying catch-22 situation though. :P
I mean.... You can just delete the files off of your computer..... Seems like this entire thing is that they didn't think of a case where you needed an uninstall button for a game you don't own....
I mean.... You can just delete the files off of your computer..... Seems like this entire thing is that they didn't think of a case where you needed an uninstall button for a game you don't own. This isn't ransomware, just missing a corner case.
Yeah, sure you can just manually delete it but then you would also need to manually delete all the registry entries it created, programdata, appdata, userdata and mydocs files, desktop/start menu...
Yeah, sure you can just manually delete it but then you would also need to manually delete all the registry entries it created, programdata, appdata, userdata and mydocs files, desktop/start menu shortcuts, 'programs and features' entry and whatever other junk might get left behind (e.g. any services and dependencies it also installed). Whenever uninstallers fail it's always a PITA to make sure everything that was installed is actually gone for good and your computer doesn't freak out for it all being missing nor take a permanent performance hit from crap you missed slowly accumulating on your system.
Hanlon's Razor almost certainly applies here.
Yeah. It's more than likely just an honest mistake, not some malicious attempt to force people to buy the game, and it will probably get sorted out shortly after they reopen the authentication servers after launch. It's still a pretty funny and annoying catch-22 situation though. :P
I mean.... You can just delete the files off of your computer..... Seems like this entire thing is that they didn't think of a case where you needed an uninstall button for a game you don't own. This isn't ransomware, just missing a corner case.
Yeah, sure you can just manually delete it but then you would also need to manually delete all the registry entries it created, programdata, appdata, userdata and mydocs files, desktop/start menu shortcuts, 'programs and features' entry and whatever other junk might get left behind (e.g. any services and dependencies it also installed). Whenever uninstallers fail it's always a PITA to make sure everything that was installed is actually gone for good and your computer doesn't freak out for it all being missing nor take a permanent performance hit from crap you missed slowly accumulating on your system.