Thought this was pretty well done and deserved a look by you guys. Pretty much summing up how EA is treating everyone (from developers to consumers) these days. You have to love our nerd rage.
And to quote the description:
-This is for buying out some of the best game companies and turning them to mediocrity.
-This is for having some of the worst customer service in the gaming industry.
-This is for deliberately holding back game content for the sole purpose of making customers pay more for it later as DLC.
-This is for strictly enforcing copyrights on content that you did not even create.
-This is for taking the Need for Speed franchise and completely ruining it.
-This is for supporting the S.O.P.A.
-This is for overworking your employees with no benefeits, demolishing any creative talent they have.
-This is for making terms of use that allow you to backstab your customers any time you see fit.
-This is for releasing the same things every year, an increasingly large number being the only difference.
-This is for forcing your customers to stay online to even play several games you publish at all.
-This is for backstabbing Valve, preventing the developers you publish for from releasing their games via Steam for the sole purpose of promoting your own platform.
-This is for overhyping your games and not delivering the content you promised.
-This is for bribing media review organizations to increase the rep of your games.
-This is for monopolizing the entire gaming industry and crushing all that oppose you.
I'm sorry, Electronic Arts. I used to like you, but you had this one coming.
Your days of having hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place are over.
I don't know what an origin account is and I have never purchased an EA game. I've played MOHAA and that Godfather GTA ripoff for free, but didn't enjoy them.
What a massive load of bollocks. Most of the not-completely-absurd criticisms in that video and its associated comments would be more accurately levelled at Activision, Microsoft, Sony or Ubisoft than EA.
I really don't get the EA hate (as in, singling them out as a prime-evil among all the other major publishers). Sure as a corporate entity, they've done some lameass stuff in the past, but its a huge stretch to say anything they have going on at the moment is "evil".
Somewhat ironically, the video itself appears to have been created in Gary's Mod, a user-created mod for a game that was distributed by EA.
Worst video ever to start off with. As for how many Origin titles, just BF3. If I could get that over to Steam I would be really happy...I hate origin, it's just terrible.
Not that anyone cares, but for the record, I have nothing against EA. When this thread came up I googled what games they've released, and it turns out they're all the ones where I cannot fathom what gets people so hyped, or simply haven't heard of them. A lot of them seem to be games that I perceive as targeted at meatheads, like sports games and over the top war games.
Your days of having hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place are over.
oh really? you think that video will change the world?
oh and when that dood popped up with a review score of 9.9, it reminded me when Ausgamers reviewed MW3 and gave it an incredible 9.2? give me a fucking break. surely they would have lost 5 points just for releasing the same game again for ridiculous pricing and all the overhyped bullshit promotion it got.
Question about awrejun, if I install originanal and enter the cd keys of all my oldass EA games, does this mean I'll have to run origin every time I want to play them but don't need a cd, like with steam? Or does it just add them to my account and I'll still need the cd to play the game? Coz I have this one particular game I like but it's a fucking asshole to actually make run. There's SOMETHING on my computer it hates and always bitches about the secure rom shit failing so it'd be great if I could actually play a game I paid for instead of just using it as a FUCKING COASTER. YOU HEAR ME EA?
e: oh and yeah I tried entering the cd key in steam to try & add it to my steam account but no dice.
Games I've paid for in Origin? 3. ME3, Bulletstorm and Battlefield: BC2.
Games in my Steam library? pushing 180.
Curious why Blizzard isn't getting abused like fuck for making D3 purely online for single player, as Ubisoft got reamed for it pretty hard. Got to love the spergy video game nerds out there who have a massive hard-on for Blizzard games, but the moment someone else does it they're the ultra evil.
Curious why Blizzard isn't getting abused like fuck for making D3 purely online for single player, as Ubisoft got reamed for it pretty hard. Got to love the spergy video game nerds out there who have a massive hard-on for Blizzard games, but the moment someone else does it they're the ultra evil.
You haven't been paying much attention to the internet have you
When you're stuck on MBB and don't get anywhere near as much time to trawl gaming news sites as you used to? I've been living mostly in the dark beyond what little I've read into things on here or SA.
After those reveals about how Valve is structured internally, it's no surprise they can't deliver anything on time or deliver any kind of consistent professional services, e.g. customer support.
This kind of thing should be talked about though, reminds me of a similar example of the new mobile payment start-up Square.
When you're stuck on MBB and don't get anywhere near as much time to trawl gaming news sites as you used to? I've been living mostly in the dark beyond what little I've read into things on here or SA.
I miss ADSL :(
Threre's a thousand posts in d3 thread, 90% of which are complaints, 80% of those while the server is down. Now you know so you don't have to waste the bandwidth.
You haven't been paying much attention to the internet have you
There are still a lot of white knights out there though. To paraphrase: "I don't care what flavour Blizzard's shit is, as long as it's Blizzard's! NOM NOM NOM! I LOVE EATING SHIT!" And my other personal favourite (again, paraphrased): "Games are all going to go this way, so we might as well lube up now rather than later!"
Start consuming more effectively, make them provide you with a better product.
As much as it disturbs me, you lot are gonna be breeders someday (some of you already are)
Stop accepting this beta testing shit as a retail ready product.
Short history lesson (accuracy may vary)
The funny thing is, hunters eventually utilised farmers to provide more efficient, better food stocks. (You do this in almost all games you play).
Once they realised they could be more effective hunters when they were better fed, they started their own farms.
You the gamers, are the new hunters and if you want to consume better games
Games I've paid for in Origin? 3. ME3, Bulletstorm and Battlefield: BC2.
Games in my Steam library? pushing 180.
Curious why Blizzard isn't getting abused like fuck for making D3 purely online for single player, as Ubisoft got reamed for it pretty hard. Got to love the spergy video game nerds out there who have a massive hard-on for Blizzard games, but the moment someone else does it they're the ultra evil.
I did, I'm sure if you looked around you could find me whining about it. Most importantly though I did not and will not buy D3.
EA sucks balls and most notably and also most dissappointingly, Battlefield Operation Metro sucked balls.
FIFA is the only game in recent times that I have bought and enjoyed where EA has been at the helm. They still managed to fuck up the online multiplayer but I can't have everything I guess.
I wish there was a legit statistic on how many people pirate EA games, play them for 5 minutes, realize that what they are playing is shit and proceed to uninstall.
Valve and Bethesda appear to be the only companies who seem to really know what gamers want.
I'm pretty sure Valve do too on big new releases, don't they?
Valve seem to offer an early bird special, where the very large AAA games besides COD are on par with American prices, but are then pushed to our "normal" price after a few weeks.
I'm pretty sure Valve do too on big new releases, don't they?
I've found that they only region price when the local arm of the production house (not valve) tells them too, take batman for example I bought the pre-order at $60 or whatever, two weeks later, time warner had asked that the price be $99 or so. so valve was looking after us, the gamer,
my issue with EA is that they stopped using steam on the new games, otherwise I'd have no games in spywear, i mean origin, it was if they knew people wouldn't use it,
I would love to know how many games it has sold thru the store, and how many have been bought elsewhere (like CD key stores, real bricks and mortar stores etc)
we always whigne about regionalised pricing but what about 3rd world countries where people earn only a few hundred bucks a month. Wouldn't be fair to charge them say a quarter of their monthly wage on a game. So I think there is good reason for regionalised pricing. Just playing the devils advocate here.
we always whigne about regionalised pricing but what about 3rd world countries where people earn only a few hundred bucks a month. Wouldn't be fair to charge them say a quarter of their monthly wage on a game. So I think there is good reason for regionalised pricing. Just playing the devils advocate here.
you are kidding right, pretty sure and working for a $300 means that you pretty unlikely to have the internet, a computer or let alone one that is going to be running the latest games,
also, using your method, we should have had cheaper games than the US
you are kidding right, pretty sure and working for a $300 means that you pretty unlikely to have the internet, a computer or let alone one that is going to be running the latest games,
also, using your method, we should have had cheaper games than the US
not kidding at all, it's all relative, well mostly. My wifes parents live in a poor European country. They earn fuck all compared to us but have everything we do. Car, computer, vid cams, own their apartment outright etc.. They earn more than $300 a month (I was just using that for argument sake).
Also your comment about the US, I don't think that's true as their average wage is a lot lower than ours? I can't confirm this but I always thought that was the case.
not kidding at all, it's all relative, well mostly. My wifes parents live in a poor European country. They earn fuck all compared to us but have everything we do. Car, computer, vid cams, own their apartment outright etc.. They earn more than $300 a month (I was just using that for argument sake).
Also your comment about the US, I don't think that's true as their average wage is a lot lower than ours? I can't confirm this but I always thought that was the case.
well now that our dollar is at parity, however prior to that, it is was a different matter
but of the issue I feel is that 15-20 years ago it was fair to charge us $60 for a game, and charge the US $30 because our dollar was worth about half the value, and there was some small part in shipping,
now it seems that the price seems to have change to maintain that difference ignoring the fact that the our dollar is worth much more, and that for a digital copy, there is no shipping fees, (okay there is a maintaining of servers, but that cost is the same regardless of where the end user is)
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