Some issues Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Hey guys, i bought Political Machine back '04. and i bought the '08 version just yesterday morning. just got one major issues. intermittantly the game will freeze and crash, but not at any particular point just after a while crashes. I tried windowed mode, as i really like to just play the game intermittantly and surf the net and doing other things. 1. I cannot shrink the window size, the mouse curser will not allow me to minimize, maximize or even close the window. Nor can i even adjust the size of the window. Doesn't all this sort of defeat the purpose of even having the window'd version. 2. when it is in window'd mode i can't click on any of the tabs, i can make the bobble head characters heads bob back and forht but nothing else. thats all, now please excuse me and allow me to start a rant that has been boiling for a while. -----------------------------------------------------Ranting in 1, 2, 3......What the hell, this is an easy game, it is an easy game to program and put together. Hell it is a $20 dollar game, an event game to boot (its really put around for the 2008 election), there is no reason that a simple game like this should crash like this, or can't even handle window'd mode.More so, the minute i do a digital download and i HAVE to download a program i've never heard of and i'm only gonna use for this one game (Impulse). Having to e-mail to get a serial #. More so i have to download some Stardock Central just so i can use these forums?! listen i'm just a passerby, you guys got a neat game. but God all mighty, it really seems like the people who made this game were more concerened with the security of the software for such a simple game. Really when i bought this and my two buddies were watching me download it (LEGALLY btw) and trying to get the game to install fully. The two of them lost the incentive to even bother to download.Think about it, to get the game and talk on this forum, i HAD to download two seperate programs. WHY?! Stardock, look into running your company on lean, and take my advice, you got too much crap for the people who are gonna BUY your product. Stardock is not Sony, its not Apple, it shouldn't force people into downloading other programs just to get a game to run. a simple game to boot as well.Rant as well.