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linuxlove · **Post subject:** EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:44 am

Description wrote:

-This is for buying out some of the best game companies and turning them to mediocrity.
-This is for having some of the worst customer service in the gaming industry.
-This is for deliberately holding back game content for the sole purpose of making customers pay more for it later as DLC.
-This is for strictly enforcing copyrights on content that you did not even create.
-This is for taking the Need for Speed franchise and completely ruining it.
-This is for supporting the S.O.P.A.
-This is for overworking your employees with no benefeits, demolishing any creative talent they have.
-This is for making terms of use that allow you to backstab your customers any time you see fit.
-This is for releasing the same things every year, an increasingly large number being the only difference.
-This is for forcing your customers to stay online to even play several games you publish at all.
-This is for backstabbing Valve, preventing the developers you publish for from releasing their games via Steam for the sole purpose of promoting your own platform.
-This is for overhyping your games and not delivering the content you promised.
-This is for bribing media review organizations to increase the rep of your games.
-This is for monopolizing the entire gaming industry and crushing all that oppose you.

I'm sorry, Electronic Arts. I used to like you, but you had this one coming.
Your days of having hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place are over.

DarkerJ · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 5:31 am

Sadly EA has bought PopCap, so now every time we buy Bejeweled, guess who's pockets we are also serving.

nathaniel87 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:37 am

I completely agree. I hate what they've done with Command & Conquer. I wish Westwood Studios wasn't absorbed by EA. Ahhh... The good old days of Westwood... :-(

YoshiHDify · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:52 am

The gaming industry feels so pointless now, if smaller developers/publishers sell out to them we will probably end up with either only
a very few companies to choose from or worse... *gulp* the gaming industry becomes a monopoly business D:

DarkerJ · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:59 am

Well, I sure dont see Nintendo or Sega going out of business anytime soon.

finkmacunix · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:58 pm

nathaniel87 wrote:

I completely agree. I hate what they've done with Command & Conquer. I wish Westwood Studios wasn't absorbed by EA. Ahhh... The good old days of Westwood... :-(

Red Alert 3 was pretty good...

DarkerJ · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:38 am

And EA has made money from the toy department too, so people of all ages just eat up their games. But even they can make good games, as stated in the above post.

Gamma · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:13 pm

YoshiHDify wrote:

The gaming industry feels so pointless now, if smaller developers/publishers sell out to them we will probably end up with either only
a very few companies to choose from or worse... *gulp* the gaming industry becomes a monopoly business D:

Well... it's already happened with walmart pretty much.

kyllian1212 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:41 pm

...I guess this means that im the only one who likes SSX here. ._.

john11 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:26 pm

LOL, took a few seconds to load the youtube video, I thought you had a blank page for "EA in a nutshell". But I do agree with this, I hate the fact they force you to be online to play single-player games

Gamma · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:39 pm

kyllian1212 wrote:

...I guess this means that im the only one who likes SSX here. ._.

I love SSX3. It's a good game.

kyllian1212 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:30 am

john11 wrote:

LOL, took a few seconds to load the youtube video, I thought you had a blank page for "EA in a nutshell". But I do agree with this, I hate the fact they force you to be online to play single-player games

SSX (PS3-360) doesn't force you to...
You just need a online pass to gain credits online (Partial Multiplayer lock).Some other games locks-up the whole multiplayer,and some others locks the whole game until you get a pass so.... yeah.

I like SSX3 too,but i also like the PS3-360 one.

john11 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:47 pm

kyllian1212 wrote:

john11 wrote:

LOL, took a few seconds to load the youtube video, I thought you had a blank page for "EA in a nutshell". But I do agree with this, I hate the fact they force you to be online to play single-player games

SSX (PS3-360) doesn't force you to...
You just need a online pass to gain credits online (Partial Multiplayer lock).Some other games locks-up the whole multiplayer,and some others locks the whole game until you get a pass so.... yeah.

I like SSX3 too,but i also like the PS3-360 one.

So even snowboarding games require online (though really if your playing online you sort of have to go online anyway). Never played any SSX games, I don't understand how you could do snow boarding in-game, but if its good, maybe I should try it.

hogsy · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:03 am

DarkerJ wrote:

Well, I sure dont see Nintendo or Sega going out of business anytime soon.

Well certainly not Nintendo but Sega on the other hand haven't been doing too great lately so I wouldn't be so sure.

mycomputerhelp · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:03 pm

SEGA's dead, gais.

DarkerJ · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:43 pm

Sega I think is doing fine. Generations was great, and I heard on Sonic Retro their making a game or something for the PS Vita.

kyllian1212 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:37 pm

Wasn't it the Jet Set Radio port?

DarkerJ · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:42 pm

No, I think its something called project Diva.

voyager8907 · **Post subject:** Re: EA in a Nutshell **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:19 am

DarkerJ wrote:

Sadly EA has bought PopCap, so now every time we buy Bejeweled, guess who's pockets we are also serving.

I happen to have a disk with all the PopCap games unlocked fully for free so i'll be fine. But damn that sucks.

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