Yawn. Let me know how your little crusade goes. I'll be off playing EA games I enjoy and not foolishly depriving myself of them in a pointless gesture of indignation.
EA Boycott?
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Let's see...SirBryghtside said:
A troll thread by Buk_Futt3r, a worst guns thread, 2 threads about the USAS, "tutorial" threads on how to properly use guns/kill snipers, bitching about the mine nerf.
Oh yes, that treasure trove of information is worth getting banned over.
Because the internet is free and there are no laws at all... Yeah, before you ask I am being sarcastic.albino boo said:
People who ruin the experience for others get banned. It's overly harsh to say the least, but not enough for me to ban EA. Now the fact that I am not a EA fan makes it pointless for me to boycott their games, but hey, if you want me to I'll join the group who's not buying Mass Effect 3. I hated the original games anyway. Need For Speed games though... I wont boycott them... Unless The Run is as crappy as the first trailers made it look like...
I've also stopped buying EA games to boycott their anti-customer practices.
It helps that I bought Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit last year and experienced first hand a good/great game being ruined by EA's DRM bullshit (I'm a PC gamer). Therefore any time I think of buying ME3, I just remind myself that it will be weighed down by all the crap EA will dump on Bioware's creation.
Same here, ME3 was the hardest to give up, but all three of those big games could potentially have gotten some money out of me if it weren't for EA.Fuhjem said:
It helps that I bought Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit last year and experienced first hand a good/great game being ruined by EA's DRM bullshit (I'm a PC gamer). Therefore any time I think of buying ME3, I just remind myself that it will be weighed down by all the crap EA will dump on Bioware's creation.
For what it's worth I've been boycotting EA for a while now. Though sadly there's little point. Too many people will refuse either because they're slaves to certain IP or simply because they're too skeptical that the boycott would actually take off.
If you find a group large enough to start one though, count me in. The last EA game I bought was over a year ago and it was 2nd hand. I'll happily stick to this one-man boycott even if it gets no where (yes, I hate EA that much).
If you find a group large enough to start one though, count me in. The last EA game I bought was over a year ago and it was 2nd hand. I'll happily stick to this one-man boycott even if it gets no where (yes, I hate EA that much).
Internet boycotts and petitions don't work. If you want to start a movement you need another strategy as this one is clearly broken.
oooooooooooooooh one less sale from a faceless poster on a message board, that'll learn em.
i can respect your passion but ea will react the same way a giant does when i hit him with an iron dagger when i'm level 1.
i can respect your passion but ea will react the same way a giant does when i hit him with an iron dagger when i'm level 1.
Although I believe EA have clearly gone off the deep end and I have decided for myself to not purchase their games (ME3 be damned) as I will not support this particular brand of lunacy, I am not expecting miracles by any means.
Anybody else feels like getting shafted, by all means go ahead, but it's not for me.
Also, I remember when EA used to be cool back in the day....
Anybody else feels like getting shafted, by all means go ahead, but it's not for me.
Also, I remember when EA used to be cool back in the day....
See my take on piracy (link should be on my twitter feed, I believe.)malmodir said:*cough* *cough*Shirastro said:Piracy would solve your problem.....but ofc we would never fall so low
No.... never....
It's still sad that the only way not to get hit by their ridicoulus anti-piracy crap is to pirate instead of buying the game like you would have done without Origin.
Other than that, I'm with the OP. Honestly, the only thing I am close to dropping out of a boycott would be ME3. And, unless EA somehow manages to get the Origin-Stick out of their rear end, I won't drop out there either ... (If they do, though, I'll be having a hard time trying to boycott, but since that's unlikely, I'm not too scared ...)
Yes, it is unlikely to have any effect, if we boycott. And yes, it's only a very little share of profit lost - which is likely going to be counted towards the "PROFIT LOST DUE TO PIRACY!!!!!" statistics ... lol. And yes, it effectively blocks us boycotters from playing considerably decent games. Nonetheless it's principles to speak up for. And if we don't speak up, who will?
I'd rather lose the experience of ME3 (and BF3, for that matter) than give in to EA with their recent pile of crap called public relations ...
I hate EA games, I think they represent a lot of what is wrong with the games industry, I do my best to speak ill of them any chance I get for their horrible treatment of their consumers. I don't buy games they make unless it is a game I absolutely must get, Mass Effect 3 is a game that I will buy regardless but most of the time I do avoid their products and I always point out why they are such a bunch of greedy bastards whenever I get the chance. I guess I could do more but I'm not going to sabotage my gaming enjoyment in the process, in the end I don't think enough people will work to stop them and they'll continue to get away with what they do, so I can't fully commit to a cause I believe will have no real effect or at least not a *puts on sunglasses* mass effect.
I'm not boycotting them as I like their products - this year I've enjoyed ME2, Dead Space 2, DA2, Crysis 2 etc. If you don't want to buy things from them then all power to you - it's your money, you can spend it how you like. Just don't ask me to care about your cause because I simply couldn't give a flying fuck.
I'm very angry at the fact EA, Sony , Microsoft, and Apple signed onto SOPA than this. There's a bigger picture here so lets not focus this one little problem and focus on the fact that the gaming community is being threatened as a whole.
Because to reconcile your analogy with his...actually, no, your analogy is poor. A game is, and should always be, permanent merchandise, regardless of whether it's digital or not. You buy a game, a toaster, a TV, etc., you as a consumer should have a reasonable expectation of being able to keep that item until you can literally no longer use it. Now, when it comes to online gaming, things are considerably shadier. Personally, I have no problem if a person gets banned from a multiplayer game or its forums (so long as they actually deserved it), but when you are banned from using the single-player aspect of your property, that's taking it too far.albino boo said:
That's where we can reconcile your analogy: a bar is akin to the multiplayer aspect of a game, and likewise akin to online forums. If you misbehave and disturb the other patrons, you can be asked or forced to leave without recompense; you can not, however, lose your ability to consume alcohol in the comfort of your own home. And before you say "well probation yada yada yada," that requires a serious altercation in which you were arrested--the only possible online equivalent is actively hacking other forum/gamegoers, i.e. an act which is punished under Federal law. Going into a bar to drink is a privilege bestowed by the establishment (the multiplayer/forum aspet); the ability to drink in your home THAT YOU OWN is a right, along with owning the house (the right to own and use single-player games you've purchased.)