EA: Get Banned From Forums, Lose Your Games
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Wait, couldn't you just do this, make 1 account that you use exclusively for the forums and then make another that you use exclusively for games.
Sure this still means that if you get banned in a game all your games are fubar, but its still a way to sorta loophole around this.
Sure this still means that if you get banned in a game all your games are fubar, but its still a way to sorta loophole around this.
The head of Electronic Arts had this to say at a press conference
"THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
WE WILL GROW STRONGER.
WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT
WE WILL EMERGE AND TAKE OUR
RIGHTFUL PLACE AS THE SUPREME
GAME DESIGNERS OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!"
But in brighter news, 500+ jobs to go at EA. [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/10/electronic-arts.html]
"THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
WE WILL GROW STRONGER.
WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT
WE WILL EMERGE AND TAKE OUR
RIGHTFUL PLACE AS THE SUPREME
GAME DESIGNERS OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!"
But in brighter news, 500+ jobs to go at EA. [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/10/electronic-arts.html]
EA fail!
Ahh, EA. Good times. Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam were pretty much the only EA games I played. Other than that, I did some C&C, but uninstalled it once I was done. And currently, I can't think of any EA titles I'd want to play. (suggestions?)
Also, why would one want to post on their forums, anyway?
Ahh, EA. Good times. Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam were pretty much the only EA games I played. Other than that, I did some C&C, but uninstalled it once I was done. And currently, I can't think of any EA titles I'd want to play. (suggestions?)
Also, why would one want to post on their forums, anyway?
I may be naive here but this smells of a little mantra we learned at uni when a huge glaring bug turned up in a project and it was too late in the production process to be repaired:
"We meant to do it! It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
It's got to be spin for a stupid error, I bet the forum team didn't realise that it would ban the one player games until it was too late to change.
Unless they do have a strategic plan to alienate their customers. (Or maybe just the whiny ones.) I never did really get the strategic management decisions part of the course...
"We meant to do it! It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
It's got to be spin for a stupid error, I bet the forum team didn't realise that it would ban the one player games until it was too late to change.
Unless they do have a strategic plan to alienate their customers. (Or maybe just the whiny ones.) I never did really get the strategic management decisions part of the course...
Well,
1. I can't say I disagree
2. I don't buy EA anyway
3. We all know they're greedy corporate dicks, like disney only less evil.
1. I can't say I disagree
2. I don't buy EA anyway
3. We all know they're greedy corporate dicks, like disney only less evil.
All I have to say is... LOLWHUT?
This is like something a 80's Comic Book Villain would do. What next, they kidnap the president and hold in ransom for...ONE MILLION DOLLARS?
Also, I think EA's losses have more to do with them being dickholes then with the recession.
This is like something a 80's Comic Book Villain would do. What next, they kidnap the president and hold in ransom for...ONE MILLION DOLLARS?
Also, I think EA's losses have more to do with them being dickholes then with the recession.
You may be on to something there. I say we prepare for this eventuality!TsunamiWombat said:
Who here is among us is a bad enough dude to rescue the president?
Never, considering there are people smart enough to buy every iteration of their sports game every year when it's all the same shit only with graphic over haul.johnman said:
OK, these guys just HAVE to get bankrupt soon. Sure they own a shitload of companies but they just released Red Alert 3 alongside Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet, and Guitar Hero IV, and...
oh fuck it, Left 4 Dead bears the EA logo (so no one buy this through retail!) and so did Dead Space. We'll never be able to put them out of business will we?
oh fuck it, Left 4 Dead bears the EA logo (so no one buy this through retail!) and so did Dead Space. We'll never be able to put them out of business will we?
Wow that's some understandable bull'hit, Understandable, But bull'hit nonetheless.
Now I can pirate RA3 with a good feelings (I know its consios or something), Not that I ever feel anything wrong whe... That isn't relevant.
Are they still pulling the "Only 5 Installations" thingy? Because I'd never ever buy a game with those kinds of restrictions.
Now I can pirate RA3 with a good feelings (I know its consios or something), Not that I ever feel anything wrong whe... That isn't relevant.
Are they still pulling the "Only 5 Installations" thingy? Because I'd never ever buy a game with those kinds of restrictions.
Ahem... "When is the Government going to step in..." - which Government exactly? As you yourself pointed out, this thing goes across national borders.Khell_Sennet said:
It's the age-old problem of the Internet. There is no one police force (although the Aussies, Americans, British and Chinese are each doing their damndest in their own inimitable ways.) Who decides what gets regulated, and who enforces it? Just because EA is a meganational gaming corporation doesn't mean that it's immune to the intoxicatingly corrupt curse of the Internets.
Annoyingly, I've lost the link to the thread where I posted the thing about "how did EA fall so low?" But it's fairly obvious anyway, reading this.
