I couldn't possibly agree any more. I saw my friend playing it one day, and it just so happened to be one of those sessions of gaming that was perfect; no glitches, no lagging, no server issues, nothing went wrong. Naturally, I bought it right after leaving his house. I get to my house and have one of those child-like feelings of excitement when you know you're about to have hours of fun in an amazing new addiction of a game.... Annnnd... Nothing. Despite my PC dwarfing the recommended specs, the game ran like it had molasses in the gears, it was lagging severely despite my (at the time, at least) incredible ISP. Everything was going for me, and yet the game was unplayable, quite literally.
I can't remember many other gaming experiences in which I was so utterly frustrated I wanted to cry and fart on the game and send it to the developers with the fart somehow still lingering. It was horrible... I still try to play it every now and again and it's..."playable". As in, it's technically possible now, but it's one hell of an annoying experience. It's a true shame because, while it's different for everyone, I just happened to have that set-up, or specific file, etc. etc. that makes it just wonky as all hell. I'll go to my friend's...he's playing it fine. It's the most frustrating thing I've ever experienced in gaming.
Lil' rant there.
But it really is mind-boggling to me, how that shit works. Computers are so singular and so unique that people can have the exact same set-up and the same game and they'll have two starkly different experiences and issues.
For now, my gaming time is being spent on Shadow of Morder (Just got the new Dark Hand skin..so awesome; especially since the game is now pretty much glitch free for me) and the new Pokemon OR/AS special demo. I'm about to finish it but it's cool having a pokemon with a Megastone and a few batches of items to send to the full game once I get them. I've also gotta remember to pick up dat SHINY Gengar at Gamestop tomorrow...