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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:55 pm
by Malcolm
In a memo sent by Riccitiello to Probst to remind the latter of why the fuck he was leaving, the outgoing chief highlighted the company's <s>growing</s> flaccid digital <s>business</s> reputation that ranks slightly lower than Jack Thompson's. At his direction, EA created an online games platform dubbed <s>Origin</s> Fuck You Richard Garriot and Fuck You Chris Roberts to <s>distribute</s> overcharge for titles over the Internet because sales are for pussy retailers.
Fixed. Origin is "servicing" a rather inflated 40M customers, most of whom personally want to castrate every EA exec due to SimCity's launch. It's also being crushed by competitor Steam to the tune of 54M active users and growing, because I can fucking play BL2 when the Steam servers go down.
SimCity hits 1.1M sales
I see nothing cited beyond EA's word, which goes for about as much as a cold pile of shit with ebola.
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:58 pm
by GORDON
I believe they stated 1.1 million sales, 53% of which were through Origin.
I don't like any of that.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:12 am
by Leisher
It's well known that their Origin numbers are inflated to the point of ridiculousness.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:46 am
by TPRJones
I'm one of those 40M origin customers, I guess. I bought a DLC item for ME2. Then I found out after the purchase that I'd have to install their bullshit program in order to play the DLC so I went and pirated it instead.
Ultimately I've never used the service at all and you couldn't pay me enough to install that shit, yet I'm still counted as a "customer".
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:24 pm
by Malcolm
Maxis jumps on the grenade.
Always-Connected is a big change from SimCities of the past. It didn’t come down as an order from corporate and it isn’t a clandestine strategy to control players. It’s fundamental to the vision we had for this SimCity. From the ground up, we designed this game with multiplayer in mind – using new technology to realize a vision of players connected in regions to create a SimCity that captured the dynamism of the world we live in; a global, ever-changing, social world.
No, you fucking didn't. Either this came down from corporate and you were forced to hastily adapt existing software to an insane requirement OR you didn't fucking design this from "the ground up" with multiplayer in mind. The reason I make that last claim is because someone would've said, "Let's make server stability and availability a priority."
The game we launched is only the beginning for us – it’s not final and it never will be. In many ways, we built an MMO.
Again, no you didn't. If you did, you'd mean you expect people to pay either monthly fees or microtransactions on a regular basis to put up with your bullshit. Are you that disconnected from reality?
So, could we have built a subset offline mode? Yes. But we rejected that idea because it didn’t fit with our vision.
The vision in which any sentence with the words "SimCity" and "launch" has to be a punchline?
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:33 pm
by GORDON
She/Maxis has been saying that for about a week now.... I am trying to figure out why, since so much of the so-important-calculations are done on their servers, why the goddam game isn't just browser based. If Netflix can stream 720P movies to me in HD without hurting my simultaneous League of Legends game on my 1.5MB download pipe, surely they could stream this game to customers through a browser, and save shitloads on not even building/packaging/selling a client.
If that really was their intention for the always-on aspect, which we know wasn't.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:14 pm
by Malcolm
A browser-based SimCity would be looked on as "cheap" and they know it. They'd also be subject to the browser for lots of UI they want to handle themselves.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:15 pm
by TPRJones
Because if it was just browser-based, how could they justify charging $80 a copy?
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:38 pm
by GORDON
The piece of shit is already browser based. It is practically a facebook app. All you get on the disk is the art.
Apparently.
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:15 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:16 pm
by GORDON
The author talks about how awesome it is to get an unfinished game for full price, then being allowed the awesome privilege to buy day-1 DLC for only more money.
Fuck that article.
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:54 pm
by TheCatt
I don't like the DLC thing. Like BL2, I've kinda done with the game, unless yall slackers ever want to take on the invincibles. In the meantime, I've paid for a DLC that hasn't even been released.
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:20 pm
by Malcolm
Saw the original SimCity advert (with the one dude from Workaholics) back on last night. Guess they must be pushing the ads again.
EDIT:
I'm totally game for some Terramorphus or other Seraph Guardian action. If certain dudes didn't have their LoL drama going on...
I know someone I could call in perhaps, but his gear makes him insanely overpowered, like a pre-patch Bee amp shield. As for myself, I could burn purples until I get decked out.
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:37 am
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:Saw the original SimCity advert (with the one dude from Workaholics) back on last night. Guess they must be pushing the ads again.
They never stopped the ads. I see at least one a day on comedy central.
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:20 am
by TPRJones
Stop the ads? Are you kidding? EA doesn't care if it works or not, that's Maxis' problem to deal with. They just want to keep selling as many of those boxes as possible as quickly as they can. No way would EA stop the ads, even if the game was unfixable.
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:24 pm
by Leisher
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:21 am
by GORDON
EA is still blaming Maxis, but being more harsh about it.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013....trategy
Also, here is the line from EA that I find interesting:
In fact, he goes further, slamming the DRM as “a failed dead-end strategy; it’s not a viable strategy for the gaming business.”
Here's my prediction: they don't consider "always on" to be DRM.
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:49 am
by Malcolm
I hope that fucking dumb-ass suit gets fired. Better yet, I hope he stays on and helps bury the company further.
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:27 pm
by Malcolm
Free DLC. Although the "C" is being stretched a bit.
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:40 am
by TPRJones
Nissan has created the ultimate in sustainable energy, since these charging stations will not only make people happy, but they won't use power, water, or workers from your city.
So, it's fantasy. Free power, and in reality if no one was there to care for the place it'd be covered in graffiti and feces within a week.
