All EA games now force users to set up the client as part of the standard installation process.
Is that really a subscriber?
Anyway, oh fucking hooray, the multiple digital distribution, forced install wars have begun. Let the PC crashing commence.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Based on news in another thread, Microsoft is now throwing their hat into the ring.
I wonder if they'll "accidentally" put code into their OS that breaks their competition.
Oh, and there are now rumors swirling that Steam will soon be on X-Box...
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Well, aren't they forcing you to load it when you buy their games off the shelf? So, if I buy Battlefield 3 from Best Buy, I still have to load their Origin client. If this is true, they could easily hit the '5 million users' mark. Users in the sense that their games are calling home, not actually buying software from Origin and using it.
Cakedaddy wrote:Well, aren't they forcing you to load it when you buy their games off the shelf? So, if I buy Battlefield 3 from Best Buy, I still have to load their Origin client. If this is true, they could easily hit the '5 million users' mark. Users in the sense that their games are calling home, not actually buying software from Origin and using it.
Yes, and that's why people are calling bullshit.
"Daily" users is where their critics are crying foul. EA is trying to convince people that their service is like Steam, when in fact it's nothing more than a sales portal...at the moment.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
I refuse to install Origin for any reason. I bought some DLC for ME2, and it wasn't until AFTER they had my money that it specified I would need to install Origin to download it, even though it specifically stated in the description that I would not need Origin installed to play it.
So, instead I pirated the content. Because fuck EA.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
To sum up: EA hates Valve because they give gamers good prices via sales. EA thinks the price should always be as high as possible.
He also said, "Gamers are fucking losers and should get on their knees and thank God that we let them buy our games at the prices we do. I wish they'd all go fuck themselves and die after spending every cent they have on EA games."
EA wants to sell us their hastily thrown together crappy annual sequels at full marked up prices. They want to kill all innovation. They think THIS is the model the industry should be run upon while Valve breaks sales records via Steam, encourages innovation and independence from publishers like EA, and Kickstarter is rapidly becoming a new way to get funding for games.
EA reminds me of the recording industry assholes. Same story, different industry. Old, fat, cock suckers who don't understand technology and abhor their customers. While they're doing everything in their power to maintain the only status quo they know, the rest of the world is moving on without them.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
"I just think it cheapens your intellectual property."
Wow.
"...and we’re not trying to be Target. We’re trying to be Nordstrom. When I say that, I mean good value – we’re trying to give you a fair price point, and occasionally there will be things that are on sale you could look for a discount, just don’t look for 75 percent off going-out-of-business sales.”
WOW.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Some games I'll buy full price. Not many at all, maybe four or five a year max. But I'll buy almost anything and try it at 75% off.
The question is not how can they get me to pay full price as that's a very rarefied group of games. The question is would they prefer to sell me something at 75% off or not sell it to me at all.
Clearly Valve has a smarter answer to that question than EA.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
The second someone comes up with a professional sports video game franchise that beats EA or can break the exclusivity bullshit they have, I will positively laugh my ass off.
Someone did, then EA bought their ass when they hit bankruptcy.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
From the PA Report -- why the standard video game product model kills indie development, creativity in general.
EDIT: In this thread because the author specifically mentions Valve and how it's staying near the top.
I've come to the conclusion that long term, the hit-driven model found in disposable, packaged games is an anti-developer business model.
You can almost hear him prefacing that sentence with, "Hey, fuckwits from EA, listen up."
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
The writer of the article makes things interesting by proving a counter point. I know, wild that a "journalist" wouldn't just report something, right?
This asshat feels the need to comment on a company he's never worked for, and an industry he doesn't work in, but rather reports on.
Seriously, who makes the argument that a corporate culture actually encourages creativity?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Yeah, I hear you. I mean there's a business that needs to run, and if you let the artists run the place nothing would ever be completed and you'll go out of business. (See: Duke Nukem Forever)
However, for someone who writes about and reports on this industry to defend EA in any way shape or form is also inexcusable. No company has smashed more creative companies, ideas, teams, people, or existing franchises than EA>
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Unfortunately, creativity is not something that you can summon on command.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
EA names their free to play games with a different banner, and when it fails they change it to what everyone else calls them, and declare it a brilliant move on their part.
Fuck you EA.
If it wasn't for moronic console players who don't realize that FPSs are better on PCs or who have to buy a new version of Madden every year, this planet would be rid of the hive of scum and villainy known as EA.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
The executive might have also said, "Our ATMs...I mean consumers...LOVE paying us full price for our games, and then, paying us even more for stupid aesthetics. Fuck do I hate our customers, but I love to stick it up their ass and force more money out."
I might be paraphrasing.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
