such a cool idea - but bugs to be cleared up
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I got my Kindle after waiting for a great while - I charged it and even got my first book on it while it was charging on its first charge. After a full charge, it will not keep any charge - and when it is in sleepmode for a while, it won't wake up - and I have to plug it in to get it to wake up -
The support folks are wonderful and patient, and they are running diagnostics and getting back to me tomorrow -
The good news is the support folks are sending me a new Kindle and I will return the other - so that makes me glad they are bending over backwards to make us happy campers.
I charged my 2nd try at Kindle and so far I've awakened the thing and it has responded. I hope this one is less trouble than the 1st one.
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The Monster High Monster Maker is an interesting product. You get 3 blank dolls and accessories, 9 color markets and a printer that transfers your design onto the body parts. This is a cool concept but there are some issues that one needs to watch out for before making the purchase.

The toy requires a compatible tablet, PC or Mac in order to work. Check the product compatibility information carefully. You will also need to download a free software for your compatible tablet or computer, with which you can design your Monster doll and transfer the design to the printer. The software is not included with the toy. You will have to download it from the app store in your tablet, or from the manufacturers website to your PC/Mac. In addition, you may also need a SANOXY USB 2.0 Cable Type A Male to Type B Male 6 ft, Black to interface with the printer if you use a PC or a Mac. Tablet users would use bluetooth to interface with the printer instead.

We first downloaded the software on our iPad (iOS 8). Pairing the Monster Maker with the iPad is simple and straight forward. The software has a great number of patterns and designs that you can resize, rotate, mirror, etc. You design your Monster doll a body part at a time. However, we encountered a lot of problems with this software. It crashed frequently on our device and as a result, we lost a lot of work. You can't manually save you design. Instead, it auto save at the end of the design of each body part. Anyway, it crashed so many times that my daughter almost gave up on it.

Next I downloaded the software on my MacBook Pro for her to use. It is running much better and more stable. It looks the same as the iOS version, except you use the mouse instead of the touchscreen. Anyway, she was able to finish the design of her first Monster doll without any major problems.

The coolest part now is to transfer her design onto the blank doll. We connected the printer to the MacBook Pro using a USB cable (not included). It's pretty ease to use the printer. The software will prompt when to change the color marker and so forth. It is very interesting to see your design appearing as the printer 'draws' it on the doll (actually on a body part one at a time). The color markers don't seem to have lots of pigment in the ink, so the design/drawings look faint and a little washed out. Wish the manufacturer would at least include higher quality pens in a $130 toy. The design/drawings are not permanent and can be removed with an eraser. Enough handling of the dolls could also rub off the drawings partially.

The Monster High Monster Maker is indeed a very cool toy. You must have a compatible device or computer in order to use it though. At the time of writing, the software seems to be more stable on one platform than another. The enjoyment with this particular toy really depends on the usability of the software. I would have given it more stars if it were more stable, and perhaps a set of higher quality, pigmented markers could also be made available. Furthermore, this toy is rated for 8+ years of age but I think a preteen would be more appropriate since a 8-year old would not make it to work without an adult's help.
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I purchased Rocksmith 2014 with the guitar and have had it since the release day. I can see how this would be an awesome product with lots of potential. However on the release day and even to this day some major bugs are present that really ruin the experience. Here is a list:

1. A bug causes tuning the guitar extremely difficult. I have taken as much as 30 minutes to tune it. Tuning is often required before playing each song even if it is in the same key. After contacting support I was told this is due to a bug in their control of the volume. ***Here is a WORKAROUND - while in the game press Alt-TAB and right click on your speaker icon in the traybar. Then select recording devices. Now select your RS Guitar and click properties. The item labled 'recording levels' gets reset to 17 between each song you play so if you change this value to about 70 between songs you can much more easily tune the guitar.

2. RS 2014 is not compatible with most USB headsets. So generally speaking practicing quietly is not possible. I have 3 different ones and it works with none of them. I contacted support and they tell you to try toggling exclusive mode on and off and also suggested a change in both the registry and a RS 2014 configuration text file. None of this worked. Looking at the forums many, many people have the same issue. In fact I saw no-one who had a USB headset working. To get the game to work you must switch to your regular sound card with your regular speakers or use headphones that connect directly to your sound card (meaning you are toast for most laptops).

3. RS 2014 installs from steam which is great, however it has an entire extra level of installer that runs ON TOP of steam called UPLAY. It is really the double whammy of DRM. Steam makes sure you own the game and Uplay makes sure you own the game. When you launch the game from Steam it launches UPLAY which then gives you the option to launch the game... Lots of hoops to just to play a song.

There are a fair amount of other bugs too but none of those are particularly serious as far as I can tell. I think they released this too soon but when it's working it is fun and worth buying. No doubt you could learn to play guitar on this provided the bugs don't frustrate you too much. Thanks for reading.
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This game is really cool and fun, when you can play.  I would give the game itself 5 stars, but it is plagued with swarms of problems too numerous to list here, but the highlights of which I will list.  For the below reasons, I would've waited to purchase the game if I hadn't pre-ordered it.

The publishers/developers should've put a lot more time and thought into this before releasing it. There is a huge problem with spam, gold sellers, harvesting bots, mass banning of players for giving reasonable amounts of gold to their guildmates and play partners; They rarely report unplanned downtimes until right before its about to happen. Say, 30 minutes at best.  They have long patches 2-3 times/week, not unexpected in a new game, but they often run even longer than they say they will, with no updates on the dev/support/status forums.

The customer service that was so awesome during Beta has dried up, and they're overwhelmed with backlogged support tickets and other issues. Getting a response is via an automated system (which they implied they wouldn't do) and an exercise in futility.
The community relations managers and developers will close and make invisible threads that they don't like that call attention to gameplay issues, but which don't violate the community forum rules.

They appear to have a tragic lack of urgency and competency on the spammers, bot'ers, and several bugs have allowed players to exploit holes in their banking systems to multiply gold and high-value crafting supplies and end-game gear, to amass tremendous wealth, within the first couple weeks, while the regular players who chose not to exploit these loopholes will have to suffer a ruined in-game economy.
The bank space is horrible if you want to do anything other a single discipline of crafting.  Provisioning, enchanting, and alchemy ALONE will fill up your bank slots beyond a reasonable ability to pursue the one, much less others. If you want to do any of the tradeskills, you'd better make some tradeskill mules to store stuff on, because the shared bank is 50 or 60 slots, and your character starts off with 50, gets an upgrade to 60 for 400gold, next one is 1200? and it gets exponentially more expensive from there. And gold can be a little difficult to come by except for some quests, but doesn't keep pace with your storage needs.
They should let you pay to either purchase more character slots (you get 8 total) or more bank space via "microtransactions."  Not pay to win, but allow players to expand their inventories to get the fullest enjoyment of the game.

Broken quests abound, but "some" are being fixed with the uncommunicated patches and downtime.

Overall, I love the game when Zenimax Online will allow you to play it. Despite some broken quests, it's still a fun and visually beautiful game with great lore and a rich experience. When you can get on and aren't getting ganked by bots.

I would wait until they fix some of the major issues, learn to plan and communicate better, and do some work on a broader and deeper vision of what this game could be capable of.  You'll be paying $60 + $15/month for a partially working product. Its a shame, it's got tons of potential.
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Overall, I'm very pleased with the product, but there still are some unresolved problems involving reports and account downloads even in v3! I would hope intuit would be more responsive to these issues, even on their forums.
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Still some bugs, as to be expected. And I do wish they waited till a larger selection of games was available. A good system that is surely bound to be a great one in the months to come. My recommendation? Wait for Titanfall. Then buy.
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This new release of Paperport has a lot more features in it , but has significant bugs, that make it almost unusable. After a few uses I ran into a problem that would occur during initial start up of the program . The splash  screen would hang and the rest of the load up sequence of the program would not take place. I found a solution to this problem after reading some posts on a support community blog site. It was disappointing to run into a problem like that. , so I am not sure it is worth upgrading from a prior version of paperport.
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I really like this game.  I've been a big fan of the series and I do think this latest edition is a big improvement over previous versions and not just a rehash with better graphics.  However, there is an issue that others have mentioned that keeps this game from being great (and may make you rethink about buying it.)  The issue is with the Uplay client which is required to play the game as well as a permanent internet connection.  I can see the logic behind this requirement, to prevent piracy which I fully support.  Not being able to play the game when you lose your internet is annoying even though that hasn't happened to me yet.  What has happened is their latest Uplay update which installed automatically without prompt, deleted all my saved games!  This has happened to a lot of users and their official forums is filled with angry posts from customers who lost all their saved games.  To me this is about the worse you can do to a game player, forcing us to waste time redoing stuff we already did.  I think a game can have a few bugs here and there, in fact all software do.  However, a bug like this is quite unforgivable.

That said let me highlight some of the positives of the game.  I really do like the game itself besides the huge blunder mentioned above.  In fact, I like it so much I was 3 hours into restarting my campaign from scratch before I discovered 3 months of saved games in another location the game couldn't find.  A lot of the changes are definite improvements.  People may disagree but tying each mine to a city and allowing players to recruit all units from 1 city cuts down on a lot of tedious micromanaging.  No longer do you have to run around and defend each mine or recapture them all.  No longer do you need a bunch of heroes running around gathering troops from each city.  Also now there are 3 resources instead of the 6 or 7 they used to have which is perfectly acceptable.  People may think they oversimplified the game but in my opinion, all they did was eliminate a lot of the tedious stuff.  Hero skills are also very interesting, with magic heroes requiring very different strategies from fighter ones.  I do think the development team did a great job and everything from the graphics, cut scenes and voice acting show a lot of polish.  The only negative is everything surrounding the game like the DRM which almost (or in some cases has) made this game unplayable.
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Game play here is great, Many of the other reviews give examples and I agree with them that it is a lot of fun. I also agree with the reviewers who said this is 9/10 game...that is, I agreed with them right up to the point that I experienced a game breaking glitch where you can't save your progress anymore. Checking the developers web site they say basically that they take the issue very seriously and they'll fix it....more than 2 MONTHS AGO and it is still not fixed. What you are left with is a game where you're going to lose progress and that is totally unfit for sale. I'm tired of developers who don't properly test games and foist defective products off on the public. Just google the issue and read the complaints.
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I love Zoob, but as with the other Zoob kits this one had some near impossible builds.  The scorpion and one or two others are very difficult to do the legs, but there were also some cool builds here as well, such as the crab and the mosquito.  I love the suction cups.  Over all, a fun kit, however I have 3 suggestions to ZOOB:
1)  I would gladly pay a little extra if you would include more pieces so that I don't have to break down my builds to build another one (there are not enough pieces to build all the bugs at once)
2) Please put some more glow in the dark pieces in the kit!  Do you realize how happy it would make people to include at least 4 - 5 glow pieces?  2 glow pieces is no fun at all,  we had to use yellow zoob pieces from another kit for eyes, and my kids were bummed.

3) Put more suction cups in as well, ideally, it would be great if you included enough pieces to build all of the creatures at once and give them all at least 2 suction cups a piece so a kid could decorate his room with these bugs.
I guess the idea is to get the customer to buy two or more kits :)  I bought 2
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I love the fact that I was able to store away 5-6 remote controls that cluttered my living room.  While it works good at times, it tends to be buggy (even with new battery and syncing) where occasionally the signals do not work.  For example, I have my Apple TV and TV programmed to one button.  Sometimes the button turns both devices on, other times only TV comes on, but not the Apple TV.  This happens even when remote is directly pointed at devices without any obstructions.  This bug is even worse when controlling an XBox 360.
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Hi good afternoon. Currently I have problems with the game, showing a 150-1031 mistake, a defect with the other games I have no problems. For this case, which I will return the money or I can post another game. In the picture, you can see the evidence.
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Great idea, good execution, yet a couple flaws.  1.  While the initial installation was simple and easy, trying to move them to my new router was a real PITA.  It would NOT except all 3 to my nest account.  I followed the instructions to the letter, even removing all 3 (1 from 16.5') and putting them NEXT to my new router.  the wifi part worked fine, but it would not accept them to my account.  I even deleted my entire nest account, setup a new on a new email address... having to redo my next thermostat (which was a PITA).
My gripe here is not understanding that moving to newer wifi routers, or DIFFERENT wifi passwords is (or should be) considered common practice... they should make it MUCH easier to migrate to new router/wifi by simply entering in the new info and letting them switch over.  They are also only 2.4Ghz which is susceptible to interference.  I have a 5Ghz/2.4Ghz mess network to get full coverage for cameras and such.
I am looking forward to the 3rd generation now...
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Bugs bugs bugs and did I forget to tell you bugs.  The game will not run on NT, XP, win95 (you need to sacrifice your firstborn).
Storyline is ok.  Voice acting ok.  Sound one dimentional. Graphics circa 1997.  Combat system buggy and slow.
My copy crashes every 15 minutes.  I'm at the point now that I can't load any saved games.  Support is like, well I haven't heard from them yet.  I only have about 11 hours of gameplay in.
Everything must be done by keyboard in a clunky inexact interface.  I keep getting attacked for taking things when I'm trying to talk to someone since get and talk are the same ctl-up combo.
If you can't keep the enemy 'highlighted' you can swing all day at them and never cause damage.  Ranged weapons?  You can never tell the range at which they'll cause damage.
Once you learn sneaking, it is useless.  Learning lockpicking didn't help my success rate either.
The quests are sometimes incomprehensible.  Some of the notes are written in Latin/german/pig-english and don't make sense.
The 8 page 'manual' has a bit of story and explains the installation.  In the gothic world you are on your own to learn the keyboard combos.  Swimming?  Pain in the ... and not worth it.  Only did it to figure out how.
I paid $20 on ebay and fell I overpaid for a beta copy by say 16 bucks.  If they ever release a patch that lets me play some more I might try it.  I was just starting to get into the story.
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way better after patched and fixed, glad I waited this one out
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Being a longtime xbox owner, a lot of the features and user interface were completely new and to be honest a bit confusing.  I was even concerned at one point that I had one of the legendary "Bricked Consoles", however with a small amount of intelligence and navigating the menus I was able to clear up a few of the issues that was causing this confusion...  So to help fellow users who have been having hang ups on the "installing" screen or other places here a couple tips I found that were not available anywhere else online:

#1 Downloaded games:  While it seems only natural for a game to take a little bit to download 30-40 gigs, when I went onto the Playstation Plus "free to play" games and downloaded all of them, they would start downloading the game and add to it another copy, which seemed to me strange so I attempted to delete it, not realizing that one was the game and the other was some sort of title update and deleting one, removed them both from the system....  Long story short, if you have two copies of Blacklight, Contrast, or DC Universe downloading and one is complete and the other is not YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO INSTALL THE GAME:  it will say "installing please wait" forever

#2 "The application may only be started by a registered user" (or something to that effect) would display when trying to use Amazon Prime or some downloaded games, not giving you a chance to prove you are the proper registered user.  This is such a stupid fix, I hated myself for taking two days to figure it out...  Simply go into the Settings menu, locate the "Update registration" under, I believe, the PSN menu.  Even though this is the first time you have ever used the system and technically should be registered, an update can quickly remedy and issues with not being able to use something you feel you should.

#3 Flashing light of death, sounds like it more of a "different systems have different issues" sort of thing rather than a general across the board issue with the systems as a whole, but could be related to various issues ranging from "rough handling" by the shipping company, a volley of attempted fixes for problems that may be simpler than initially recognized, and a small percentage of units that WERE in fact damaged and need to be replaced (to which my faithful Gamestop said: "we have backup units if yours is damaged and we can replace on the spot")

#4 The music service will continually say you need to update the date & time if you put it in manually and can only be resolved by going into the Settings menu and choosing to have the date and time updated by the internet instead of manually.

For a launch machine, it has surpassed my expectations, and the few bugs I experienced seemed more like user error than "poorly built machine"
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I am really enjoying the Scrabble game on my kindle.  That being said, I have noted a few "glitches" 1.  This morning for the first word of the game I laid down -- S M I L I N G --  (all 7 leters)  I only received 26 points and not the 50 + 26 I should have received -- HUGE disappointment to me. 2.  A word was laid down yesterday by the computer "leges" and though I don't have a scrabble dictionary -- I checked several dictionaries and not a one had this word.  3.  I also don't like the ending -- I have no way of knowing how many tiles my opponent has - it would be good if I could.