EA Misprints Red Alert 3 Install Codes

[meece]

I've been boycotting EA since BF2142 was published.

Just not worth it with their lousy product quality and all the rest of the BS they do.

Only game since then worth buying was Crysis and even *that* had GAPING flaws which any decent publisher wouldn't have allowed in.

This rather forcefully brings to mind a statement from Stardock where they said copy protection should NOT inconveniece buyers. Guess EA disagrees about that ¬_¬

 

[ElephantGuts]

I sort of feel bad for EA actually... they just can't get anything right can they? Someone should really buy them out and put them out of their misery. Then again, they're so stupid they might not realize they're in misery...poor EA.

 

[Sigenrecht]

Being a brilliant RTS aside, this irritated me. EA is trying so hard to put out good-quality games and getting their shit together, this phenomenal blunder just made me sigh, especially with how they've been getting it up the ass lately (economically speaking). In quoting of Penny Arcade, "We are being digested by an amoral universe."

Still wish it was Westwood. Luckily, when guessing out of the 35 possible characters the code could be, I was had started with the numbers and got it on my seventh try instead of my thirty-third. Worth the wait, in my mind, but blunders like this aren't good for popularity or publicity.

But, while this is a huge mistake by anybody's standards, people are blowing everything way out of proportion, and kind of picking on what was until recently the gaming superpower that pumped out hordes of mediocre to (majority) terrible games like it was the bubonic plague. Sure they kicked us around the way only someone who has tons of money and kept on making tons more can, but they don't deserve this cruel of treatment. I mean, none of us are going out of our way to please a generally pessimistic and impressionable audience.

 

[BmC]

You get to play little minigame even before installing the game. Now isn't that AWESOME!!!

 

[Nazulu]

This is the company that fails, they can't help themselves at all! The just keep finding new ways to fail. They give me a good reason to be pessimistic because I really think their heads are up their ass.

Non of the things they do is that hard, it's not like they are doing something original I mean they are using the same music from RA2 for peat sake. They just need to look back and see how they did Generals and RA2 and improve from there, with technology today it should be bloody easy.

 

[Sigenrecht]

This is the company that fails, they can't help themselves at all! The just keep finding new ways to fail. They give me a good reason to be pessimistic because I really think their heads are up their ass.

Non of the things they do is that hard, it's not like they are doing something original I mean they are using the same music from RA2 for peat sake. They just need to look back and see how they did Generals and RA2 and improve from there, with technology today it should be bloody easy.

What are you talking about? They got Frank Klepacki and composed a whole new soundtrack, stapled by Hell March 3. Oh, and obviously, it seems like you've never tried to design, much less mass-produce a quality game.
In EA-bashing terms, making a quality game on their part is pretty damn hard as it is, but Red Alert 3 is awesomeness in a disc.

 

[Lt. Sera]

You cannot bash the Soundtrack, purely because it's been done by the guy who brought us pure awesomeness in all(?) C&C OSTs. As for remixing older songs, Hell March has been the theme for all Red Alerts. This is simply the third installment of that tune.

What this whole ordeal once again proves, is that any form of DRM is simple punishment to the legit buyers. While the buyers couldn't play due to an incomplete cd-key, the pirates were finishing up the game.

When will they finally get it through their thick skulls?

It took the music industry a long long time for it to revise it's views. Instead of following their exact path, maybe wise up and learn from their mistakes?

 

[TheBluesader]

Well, finally saw RA3 on the shelves, and on the cover is this nice warning
"Requires online registration to activate"

Horay for SecuROM, the one thing that will destroy the EA empire, because there is no fucking way in the nine layers of hell I'm ever, EVER buying this game now.

As big a fan of the series as I am, I had already decided to pass on it since it just looked like more of C&C 2, but with better graphics. I can find the video clips on YouTube if I want to see George Takei talking like a bad stereotype that badly. I'm not paying full price for what amounts to a cheap graphical update of a 10 year old game.

I mean, not anymore. Medieval 2: Total War anyone?

When will publishers learn? For the last time: "The harder you make it for me to buy and play the game, the more inclined I'm going to be to pirate it." The only way to stop piracy is to lower prices. No one will steal something of low value. Other than that, ahoy, maties!

 

[Nazulu]

This is the company that fails, they can't help themselves at all! The just keep finding new ways to fail. They give me a good reason to be pessimistic because I really think their heads are up their ass.

Non of the things they do is that hard, it's not like they are doing something original I mean they are using the same music from RA2 for peat sake. They just need to look back and see how they did Generals and RA2 and improve from there, with technology today it should be bloody easy.

What are you talking about? They got Frank Klepacki and composed a whole new soundtrack, stapled by Hell March 3. Oh, and obviously, it seems like you've never tried to design, much less mass-produce a quality game.
In EA-bashing terms, making a quality game on their part is pretty damn hard as it is, but Red Alert 3 is awesomeness in a disc.

Don't defend it, they have more people working on these games than before. I am actually learning to design and more in uni and if you are good at it the only hard part is the time it takes. And yeah they mass-produce but I wouldn't say quality games, I still prefer R2 and Generals so I wouldn't even say they are professionals.

I don't need everything to be great to enjoy the game but for some reason most of their games are not fun or somehow annoying. But you have to admit the Yuri Army is alot better than Japan.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Makes me think about the good times I had when I bought Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and not only had to be annoyed with Starforce but also had to contact them to actaully get a working key. Will they never learn?

 

[Amnestic]

But you have to admit the Yuri Army is alot better than Japan.

Is it bollocks. Does Yuri have schoolgirls? I don't think it does!

 

[bedo2010]

thanks for it

 

[Sebenko]

Calm down guys. So they made a mistake. Who here is prefect? Sure, they've been the big bad of the gaming industry, but they seem to be improving, at least a bit.

And it's only 2000 copies, and they admit they made a mistake.

Do you know how many copies of MW2 shipped with missing dedicated server support? And IW/Activision won't admit they were wrong.

 

[similar.squirrel]

This does not bode well. I ordered RA3 on express order on sunday...

Get practising those permutations, I guess. It'll make playing the game that much sweeter.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Ah, they've made it a puzzle!

Only they've given you 95% of the pieces and the last one is just a guessing game.