Have we invented the technology yet that let's you ship a fist in a box that comically punches the first person who opens it? If not then I don't think we'll ever be able to get the point across.DVS BSTrD said:
EA Claims SimCity Problems Are "Almost Behind Us"
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I get the feeling that, rather than fixing the server issues, EA just murdered 92% of people who bought the game instead.
Theoretically possible, the difficulty is ensure the person opens the box properly.KeyMaster45 said:
A box of poo, however, sent to Lucy Bradshaw, Senior Vice President, Maxis/EA, 09 Redwood Shores Pkwy, Redwood City, CA 94065
Make sure the box looks like its from a respectable cake delivery company, and marked "A thank you cake from all of SimCity's loyal fans" with smiley faces. When she opens it, make sure there is a note (packaged in such a way to ensure it is not contaminated by poo) which reads "Expecting cake, and got poo. Just like us loyal Sim City fans"
Of course, I cannot condone such childishness. No matter how hilarious it is in concept...
Capcha: grease the skids
...not sure they'll need greasing, but it if you think it'll help
Obviously no, otherwise we'd never have Aliens plotline where the evil PMC tries to control the xenomorphs even though this is dumb idea. But the evil corp de jour won't fail where countless others have failed because the others were evil enough to pull this off. Also not stupid enough, duh, but there isn't really a contest. Those who try to pull off laughably bad schemes can't really be put in a contest anyways.SomeLameStuff said:
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Kinda surprised EA is actually trying to fix that. I figured their plan of action would be "well, that bombed badly but we made money so let's run from this burning wreck as far as possible"
92% of the game crashes have been fixed. So this game was 92% broken upon release. I'm sorry, but where I come from. When you screw up that badly. You get fired. You have to start looking for a new job. I'm afraid I'll never be able to buy a Maxis game while they are under the EA umbrella.
You know it's sad when they are more scared of reviewers pointing out their visible problems and lack of preparation than they are of actually knowing they made these mistakes well before the game even reached shelves.DVS BSTrD said:
EA really needs to know that we gamers just plain dislike DRM and if it happens again it will most likely be either the second to last straw or it will drive another mass portion of gamers away like it has done with Sim City.
I Wanted to love Sword of the stars II. I was set to have a great experience. I trusted Paradox and was trusting in their ability to provide me with a quality game. I was dissapointed, and not i, nor anyone i've talked to have trusted Paradox in the same way since(yah, i know it's a game studio not my childhood friend). Now with EA, they keep on messing up, and people keep trusting that a AAA studio can't keep on making these misstakes. But they will, because whether or not we like it, they sit on a LOT of good intellectual property, i mean, not as many as they did last year. But still.Andy Chalk said:EA Claims SimCity Problems Are "Almost Behind Us"
The publisher says it has reduced SimCity crashes by 92 percent compared to launch day.
The SimCity nightmare, according to Maxis General Manager Lucy Bradshaw, may soon be over. After disabling game features, working through the weekend to upgrade server capacity and, one might think, driving away a significant portion of its audience, the game is now almost in a reliably playable state. It's not exactly a new benchmark of game development excellence, but under the circumstances I suppose we'll have to take what we can get.
Bradshaw said the team will be monitoring servers and metrics to ensure that everything is running as it should, but it will take a few more days before she can guarantee that the situation is copacetic. For now, she said, tens of thousands of new players are logging into the game, and things are looking pretty good.
"I can't begin to explain the way a development team feels when something you're proud of is threatened at launch. Our biggest fear was that people who love this franchise would be scared off by bad reviews about the connectivity issues," Bradshaw said. "But you put your faith in us. You bought the game with the understanding that we'd quickly fix the server issues. For that support - that incredible commitment from our fans -- we are deeply grateful. As the general manager of Maxis, I want you to know that we cherish your faith in us, and the love you've shown for this franchise."
I would point out that most gamers likely bought the game with the understanding that it would actually work, naively optimistic though that belief may have been. Speaking for myself, anyway, I've never laid down money for a game in the hopes that someday it might run the way it's supposed to, but I'm old and cranky and probably expect too much.
Bradshaw's latest SimCity update can be read in full at ea.com [http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-sunday-update-from-lucy-bradshaw].
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I think SimCity's problems are more than server deep.
I'm guessing this is also an issue with the servers rather than braindead AI that you programmed into the game Maxis/EA?
I'm guessing this is also an issue with the servers rather than braindead AI that you programmed into the game Maxis/EA?
Very good Question. I personally do not believe that anything that EA produces could possibly be Fun; with new IP you don't care and with older IP you get the feeling that someone mutilated and raped the Corpse of your best friend and slaps you in the dick with it. That is, if you can even recognize that Corpse.the darknees abyss said:
Well it's what EA does. They have done this for over two decades now.
Alright, two decades ago there where some games that where actually good coming from EA but you could already see what was coming.
Any other old People remember the "Yuri's Revenge" expansion for "Red Alert 2"? The most intrusive copy protection system of the time.
Pretty much everything that they did has had some questionable thing in it. Nowadays, they have their games running on their own origin Platform, where the name itself bears the stench of the recently unearthed deceased but because of that is actually quite fitting for something that could only come from the seventh circle of hell.
A short comparison origin/steam: Steam asks you if you want to participate in a survey.
Origin just scans and has a process running constantly. When it sends the data, what it actually sends and where it sends it and how secure my data is when it's there, now one knows.
Since Origin leaves my system vulnerable for an outside attack, i will not install any games that require it.
But EA continues to screw you over with stuff like this.
It has been enough for about a decade now. To People who buy EA products i can merely say that they haven't been prudent enough.
Or to put it simply: if i kick you in the balls and then you give me ten bucks for it, it might lead to me kicking you in the balls again.
If yoo continue to give me ten bucks everytime i kick you in the balls for about twenty years, you have lost all rights to complain about me kicking you in the balls.
