As an intro, if you're wondering what 'smap' is, it's a playful take on 'spam' for those of us at nForcersHQ who like to talk crap with our friends.

I find it fascinating when a company that drives much of what we call PC gaming can't keep up. 

I finally bought the Fallout 3 addons on GfWL and laugh that people love to complain about Impulse (for some of the stupidest reasons!  But anyway.)  The client installed my addons but refused to progress from 'downloaded' to 'installed' even though I can use them fine in the game.  Heh.

Not only that, but the out of game client won't keep itself updated nor update the redist for in-game...

Yeah, sheesh.  MS created so much we use but they really let their PC gaming stuff suffer, and now they're trying to reignite it but aren't even publishing games for it...heh.  There's just no apparent drive for them in this area, where their other entertainment teams seem to get tighter integration and a lot of effort pushed at them.  At least they're improving it, but it's too disjointed.  Even EA Downloader works better at the moment, and it suffers from the lack of auto-updating also.

I expect better, MS, get to it.

Anyway, enjoy my first post.  It suffers from a distinct lack of zombies.