Sure, I waited until the price of this game came down to below $30. After watching the trailers and videos, I decided that it is not worth $60. It turns out I was right, at least for my liking. The whole thing feels like it was made to make quick buck. May be because unlike Microsoft Game Studios, EA may be more greedy.

There is not much of an exploration in ME2. In ME1, you could land on unexplored planets and just drive around. Not in this one.

Customizations are almost crap. Half of what I did in ME1 was customization. OK, it is dressing up. But I am pretty sure a lot of players enjoyed that. Even though they are only armors and the helmet.

There were a lot of different guns and armors in ME1. Me2, not so much. Not even half as much I think.

All these replaced with more missions? Not in my opinion.

There is one difference though. The worlds are more diverse than they were in ME1. ME1 worlds were monotonous. If you have seen one world, then you have seen most, mostly the building construction and people.

People still keep babbling the same thing for years. Sometimes silence is better than repetition.

I also got cheated by Cerberus network. When I clicked on on one downloadable item after logging on to Cerberus Network, it showed this download free. I clicked confirm download and Microsoft points were deducted. That wasn’t nice. I clicked on another and it showed free too. I waited for few seconds and then the Free changed to 560.

I got this when starting the installer. I ignored it and went ahead without any problems.

The date and the order details are not there. Look at that image.

DisconnectedContext was detected

Message: Context 0x33567b8′ is disconnected.  Releasing the interfaces from the current context (context 0×3356648).This may cause corruption or data loss. To avoid this problem, please ensure that all contexts/apartments stay alive until the applicationis completely done with the RuntimeCallableWrappers that represent COM components that liveinside them.

Is that a game? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wired-magazine/id373903654?mt=8

Look at the image. This site is not on the white list. I have seen this happening on a few sites.

Referencing a client-side image map declared with id attribute doesn’t work in text/html (usemap)

It took only 10 years to fix it. Haven’t looked at the fix yet. I only noticed this bug in 2007 and filed a duplicate.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389065

Here are the details https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109445

I got this error from Visual Studio 2008.

Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {8885370D-B33E-44B7-875D-28E403CF9270} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 80040111

I searched and found one link that refers to Office Communicator. I don’t have that SDK installed though and the error message said it was from Team Foundation.

Update: This may have something to do with the power tools. They should have used the method mentioned here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cmayo/archive/2009/08/13/getting-sign-in-sign-out-status-via-office-communicator-2007-sdk.aspx

If you get this message when you try to get the latest version of a document or file from TFS source control then you may have deleted the file in question after the last fetch from the source control.

The solution is to use “get specific version” and check the overwrite option. See the image below.

If you recently moved over from VSS you know that when you get the latest version from VSS, if the file is missing locally, VSS would just get it again even if the local copy went missing. TFS doesn’t seem to be doing this. We get this error instead.