Using while installing - does it work?

I love gaming. If I could get a job where I could play games it'd be like heaven but I'm restricted to gaming for fun. Some games are annoying however and this particular topic refers to the partially installed games that says they are ready to play...but are not.

First. I am an Xbox One owner. I've had an Xbox now for 9 years and why the PS3 and now PS4 may have offered better graphics, I love the Xbox experience. Now I've gotten that out of the way, let's talk about this.

Yesterday I saw Shadows Of Mordor GOTY for cheap on the Deals with Gold. So I picked it up and it was a 40gb download...a 12 hours download, optimally, on my broadband. I figured I'd get to play it as you often can with a partial download.

7 hours later. 55% done and marked as ready to play. I launched. I went to play. it was marked as unavailable 75% installed and other game types less so.

So, it was ready but not ready to play. This morning, it had stalled at 58% and so I resumed and by 61% I was finally able to start the game. I should add it was marked as ready to play at 40% downloaded ( was playing something else)

This has happened a few times. One such game, I can't even remember what it was, needed to be 100% downloaded before you could actually play it even though it was ready to launch at 10%. What is the point?? The same applies to games installed from disk.

So, yes, it looks good. I was able to run up the software. Anyone with faster broadband may have been able to play it sooner but not everyone has fibre (I can partake but the cost is too hurty)

A game is software. The initial user experience of that software was poor as a result of them mis-selling me a feature.

I should add that this works well sometimes too. For example, I played Lego Marvel Super Heroes when the game was about 25% complete and while limited to the first mission, I actually was able to play the game...note the operative word Play, not launch.

Game companies out there. If it's not ready/downloaded enough to play then don't let the user launch the game until it is. It's called managing expectations - I was really gutted last night.

Good game however...so far.