* Posts by Soft Sell

2 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2013

Space Commanders rebel as Elite:Dangerous kills offline mode

Soft Sell

Nerd rage know no bounds

It's nice to see that the nerd rage can span forums. I could offer that there is an offline version of the game at the moment ... it is the tutorials.

The problem is that the game client is exactly that, a client and the universe is running on an Amazon cloud service. Join the dots and you realise that they have not and probably will not be porting that Amazon service to something that runs on a client workstation.

Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins

Soft Sell

Sweet irony

I have upgraded to Windows 8.1 and tried to access our Microsoft Partner Network site only to be told:

"Please use a Microsoft supported browser"

Turning on compatibility mode resolves it but I thought I would share the irony.