Poll: Who is Gaming biggest douche?
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What?!Collins254 said:
I didn't really like New Vegas either, but if there is one thing it isn't then that is linear. You could do almost whatever you wanted, go to whatever faction you wanted. Laggy and boring, maybe, but linear? How much freedom do you want? Jeez...
EA. Everytime.
Activision are just guilty of running franchises into the ground. That's pretty douchey, but not nearly as douchey as what EA seem to be doing to the industry.
Activision are just guilty of running franchises into the ground. That's pretty douchey, but not nearly as douchey as what EA seem to be doing to the industry.
Should I be worried that EA's policy with origin doesn't worry me?
Wow... well at least I can admit I am a BF fanboy... If it means that I just sold my soul to [REDACTED]... The best videogaming company in the world! That all should have joy for their many endeavours!
Wow... well at least I can admit I am a BF fanboy... If it means that I just sold my soul to [REDACTED]... The best videogaming company in the world! That all should have joy for their many endeavours!
what game were you playing? Fallout 3 was more linear. No offence, but you sound like one of those guys who played through 5 minutes, and because it wasn't a continuation of Fo3 you immediately wrote it off as a "cash in".Collins254 said:
Don't get me wrong, I love fallout 3, but I do love New Vegas more and I don't think it deserves all the hate it gets. The Inconsistent stability though is a fair call, but that can be attributed to Bethesda rushing it out the door to compete with fable 3, and some reported that New Vegas wasn't that bad (myself included, but sometimes...)
Also, unlike other game companies obsidian actually try. They may not seem like they are, but at least they tried some new (and old but lost over time) things.
Sorry for the all over the place rant/Imnotsurewhatthisis. Should start promising to myself that I won't break into New Vegas defence every 5 minutes...
If you asked that question a week ago, I would probably have said Activision, but a certain event suddenly changed my mind
That word. I don't think it means what you think it means.Eveonline100 said:
To the poll, I think they're all douches in their own special way. No one douche outdouches the other douches.
Although, I'd still vote for Fox News.
Not Capcom, they are just trying to compete with Nintendo for the "dumbest business moves" award these past two years.
Not Ubisoft, they are dicks, but at least they are sticking with it. They have their shitty DRM and I get to tell them to piss off.
It's between EA and Activision. Both have absorbed and subsequently started to ruin legendary game development studios (Bioware and Blizzard being the most prominent examples), both are prone to douche moves and screwing over their customers.
Before this week, I'd give the award to Acti, but with the whole Origin debacle and the danger of it being in my DA3 and ME3, EA has tied the reace, maybe even taken the lead as the gaming's biggest douche.
Not Ubisoft, they are dicks, but at least they are sticking with it. They have their shitty DRM and I get to tell them to piss off.
It's between EA and Activision. Both have absorbed and subsequently started to ruin legendary game development studios (Bioware and Blizzard being the most prominent examples), both are prone to douche moves and screwing over their customers.
Before this week, I'd give the award to Acti, but with the whole Origin debacle and the danger of it being in my DA3 and ME3, EA has tied the reace, maybe even taken the lead as the gaming's biggest douche.
While I agree that EA as a company has skyrocketed up the list in recent weeks even they can't take over the top spot in my eyes. The biggest douche associated with the gaming industry: Adam Sessler
9 times out of 10 I'd say either Capcom or Activision, but I'm gonna have to go with EA for this whole 'Origin' mess.
Hard choice, but I will go with EA. Just abot everything they do are dick moves. Origin, their abyssalmarketing, the whole EA-Sports thing (realesin annual add-ons as full price games, their fucking hybris and the fact that in all EA Games I know you cant't skip their fucking EA intro screen. Acti just can't compete with that, no matter how douchy they are.
Gamestop also deserves to be mentioned.
Gamestop also deserves to be mentioned.
saying you hate something/someone and saying something/someone is a douche are two different things with that in mind. My vote is for EA, why? Quite simply because they continue to attempt to follow the "trends" while saying they are making "better" games. Lets break this down, if CoD MW2, and Black Ops came out year(s) ago, then of course by route of technological advancement, the "newer" game (using most of the same mechanics [i.e. fps syndrome]) is obviously going to be "better". However EA has had many times where they've simply dropped the ball, BF2142 was a great change from the hum drum BF2 days, and it only got one expansion, which was iffy at best. Even better they took down legendary companies left and right, through both takeovers, and "assisted" shut-downs. Maxis is now a joke-farm that shells out games, which if made from start to finish by the old Maxis, would be star-studded examples of excellent games. Look at the trailers for Spore before the huge TWO year gap of "development", to anyone its more so that they cut more and more from the game, only to end up with an "OK" "organic-lego-builder". Then they continue to make horrible games, such as the recent Dungeon Crawler/Diablo "clone" Darkspore, which I really wish I hadn't bothered to buy. The lack of an OFFLINE (LAN) MP system is unbelievably stupid, especially when you have to rely on the bug-nest that is Steam (here's looking at you Valve D<) to be able to start the game up in the first place. Since Steam's inception playing games for the fun of it (on private servers too) has gone out the window. I remembered when you could do all-sorts of mods and custom maps for Cod2. Now you'll be happy with nothing more then gold-paint on a gun or two, after playing the same MP grind-fest FIFTEEN TIMES OVER.
At this point I stick to either games from Japanese companies, or play SP games. Because most MP games (as usually told by ZeroPunctuation), have no concept of SP, most of the time SP modes take less time then the time needed to rank up halfway in MP.
So until the shit settles, I'll be that one picky friend who buys a game every once and a while after knowing they'll play it forever, and believes that DLC is what the Devs "forgot" to put in the game. In any case the fact has been explained above that the consumers are driving the industry into the ground by taking just about anything from the Companies. You could use the analogy that the common consumer is a "free" prostitute who'd do anything for a little "fun". (Only to realize after waking up in a tub of Ice that their kidneys have been stolen, as agreed to in the T&C)
At this point I stick to either games from Japanese companies, or play SP games. Because most MP games (as usually told by ZeroPunctuation), have no concept of SP, most of the time SP modes take less time then the time needed to rank up halfway in MP.
So until the shit settles, I'll be that one picky friend who buys a game every once and a while after knowing they'll play it forever, and believes that DLC is what the Devs "forgot" to put in the game. In any case the fact has been explained above that the consumers are driving the industry into the ground by taking just about anything from the Companies. You could use the analogy that the common consumer is a "free" prostitute who'd do anything for a little "fun". (Only to realize after waking up in a tub of Ice that their kidneys have been stolen, as agreed to in the T&C)
EA. My EA online account got murdered for no reason.
I was playing ME2,Project FIREWALKER,with Zaeed in my party,wearing the Cerberus Combat Armour,sweeping rooms with the Cerberu Arc Projector. All gotten through the Cerberus Network. As I was trying to take down a Geth (Collossus? Armature?),I got bounced to the title screen,game saying it can't authenticate the DLC,as it's "Linked to another EA Online Account"
I got that DLC a few hours beforehand. I didn't log off. I was forcibly logged out of my EA Online account during gameplay. When I tried to log back in,it,for some reaso,OVERWRITTEN MY CURRENT EA ONLINE ACCOUNT WITH A NEW ONE,WITHOUT ANY OF MY DLC.
Fuck you,EA. You used to be cool.
I was playing ME2,Project FIREWALKER,with Zaeed in my party,wearing the Cerberus Combat Armour,sweeping rooms with the Cerberu Arc Projector. All gotten through the Cerberus Network. As I was trying to take down a Geth (Collossus? Armature?),I got bounced to the title screen,game saying it can't authenticate the DLC,as it's "Linked to another EA Online Account"
I got that DLC a few hours beforehand. I didn't log off. I was forcibly logged out of my EA Online account during gameplay. When I tried to log back in,it,for some reaso,OVERWRITTEN MY CURRENT EA ONLINE ACCOUNT WITH A NEW ONE,WITHOUT ANY OF MY DLC.
Fuck you,EA. You used to be cool.
EA and Activision, EA for pulling out of steam so origin can spy on you
Activision for the whole COD fiasco last year and for charging £55 for COD
Activision for the whole COD fiasco last year and for charging £55 for COD
Not as of yet my friend. Remember; "Don't count your dragonlings before they hatch."Gorilla Gunk said: