Electronic Arts Shutters The Sims Social

[cookyy2k]

What is it about EA that fills me with glee whenever anything like this happens? I have several publishers I do not buy from and dislike but treat news positive or negative with a nice neutral meh, except EA when news of something bad happening to EA happens I get a huge smile on my face and think "that's one more nail".

 

[fix-the-spade]

Always online DRM already does that. Unless you think Activision or EA will release a fix for that when they shut the servers off.

Fair point.

Mercifully the great apes of Homo Modiens tend to have an answer to always on DRM, especially when it's just a two line connection check...

 

[FalloutJack]

Wow, it's like EA doesn't want to be involved in ANY aspect of gaming.

What is it about EA that fills me with glee whenever anything like this happens? I have several publishers I do not buy from and dislike but treat news positive or negative with a nice neutral meh, except EA when news of something bad happening to EA happens I get a huge smile on my face and think "that's one more nail".

They call that the sweet sound of comeuppance in progress.

OT: Okay, so that's another finger getting lopped off. Hey, can we micro-bill them for their bad service and declining capabilities? It's crunch time, EA! Feel the burn!

 

[likalaruku]

::Looks up number of players for the games, gets out calculator:: Congrats EA: Now you've added at LEAST 16 million 704 thousand 456 casual gamers to your list of haters. ::Goes to Wikipedia:: & it looks like all of these are Playfish games. Looks like EA is also cutting off Playfish's only other 2 active titles as well. They've only owned Playfish for 3.5 years & they've already run them into the ground.

When I complained that EA didn't deserve to beat out BofA as the Worst Company in America, I didn't take into consideration that EA goes through employees like tissues during cold season.


I'm actually surprised EA didn't try to sue Disney over ::Looks up name of Sims Social clone:: Disney City Girl. They just can't admit that Sims are a genre an not an exclusive game formula.