W - Worry-free installation

What ever happened to the days when you simply installed something and it worked. You just popped it in and clicked the EXE and BOOM... there it was. Things did used to be that simple, minus the swapping of disks.

Now there is a hassle. You have to wait for your auto-run to fire up and bring up the awkward game menu. You then have to select to install that game. Now if you don't want the game in a random Program Files directory you have to go through an "advanced" set up. It's a shitty process and a pain in the ass. After that you have to go through updates and revisions. Downloading them in the awkward packages that the game has available.

And then....

You cross your fingers and hope that it runs. Is there a driver issue with your video card driver that you have installed right now? What about the one from 2 months ago? Is there an issue with a sound driver? Is it being blocked by the firewall? Is there an awkward DRM that is causing issues?

As you try to figure out the crash, you go over all of these things in your head.

Why aren't we in an age where we have everything streamlined? It feels like after this many years we should have a unified format or at leasts two distinct formats that are used about equally.