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Vapourware LOL ELECTRONIC ARTS: The EA Thread

sea

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Good luck pirating an online-only game that only released this week.
Depends on how smart EA were about it. Is it like an MMO where almost everything is server-side? Or is it basically just a hard drive + activation check? Either way I'm sure someone will make cracked versions, private servers, etc., just might take a month or two (and they'd probably fix the mechanics along the way too). I wouldn't even be surprised if a butthurt Maxis employee leaks the server files to the community out of spite.
 

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You mean like they made cracked servers for Diablo 3?

Also, yes, calculations are done server-side afaik.
 

sea

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The good news is that SimCity is a solid hit in all major markets. The consensus among critics and players is that this is fundamentally a great game. But this SimCity is made to be played online, and if you can’t get a stable connection, you’re NOT having a good experience. So we’re not going to rest until we’ve fixed the remaining server issues.
I like how "consensus" is kind of just a thing you can pull out of your ass. Which critics say this? Which players? What constitutes "great" in this case? What does "fundamentally" mean? What is "fundamentally great" about SimCity? What evidence do you have to back that up? What other qualifications are attached to this claim?
 

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The good news is that SimCity is a solid hit in all major markets. The consensus among critics and players is that this is fundamentally a great game. But this SimCity is made to be played online, and if you can’t get a stable connection, you’re NOT having a good experience. So we’re not going to rest until we’ve fixed the remaining server issues.
I like how "consensus" is kind of just a thing you can pull out of your ass. Which critics say this? Which players? What constitutes "great" in this case? What does "fundamentally" mean? What is "fundamentally great" about SimCity? What evidence do you have to back that up? What other qualifications are attached to this claim?
If the consensus actually was that it's fundamentally shit, then it would still be a half truth, no?
:smug:
 

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EA is the King Midas of shit. On the off-chance that an EA title seemed worth playing, I'd have to install Origin in order to do so, which is the electronic equivalent of injecting oneself with herpes.

Fucking fuck, EA fucking sucks. I truly hate that company and the people in charge of it. It's quite rare for me to experience an emotion quite so juvenile as hatred for a business, but it's undeniable. Playing computer games is one of a handful of hobbies I truly enjoy, and EA is a destructive, cancerous tumor perched atop the industry, secreting shit-smelling ichor that drips down all over everything. Or perhaps a more appropriate metaphor would be a nasty shit-smelling hobo who stares and touches your buttocks periodically while you try to enjoy fucking your wife.

Of course, the people who are ultimately responsible are the people who keep buying their shit. If I witness a human extinction event within my lifetime, my last breath will be taken with a smile on my face, comforted by the knowledge that these people will never be alive again.

Most beautiful definition of EA i'v read yet .
 

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$95? I know Sweden's (and especially Stockholm's) standard of living and average wage are pretty high up on the list of Western nations, but then again, don't you end up paying something like an 80% tax to keep all those fine socialist programs going?

$95 for an EA-published game... fuck, I'd rather set fire to $190.
 

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$95? I know Sweden's (and especially Stockholm's) standard of living and average wage are pretty high up on the list of Western nations, but then again, don't you end up paying something like an 80% tax to keep all those fine socialist programs going?

$95 for an EA-published game... fuck, I'd rather set fire to $190.
Its 25% on all products and services, only food is 12% and newspapers and books are 6%. Thats just the regular VAT.
You dont wanna know about the rest. :)


Usually only console games cost a bunch overhere, new high profile PC games cost about 400-500 but theres seems to be some rule that digital versions have to cost more. I saw one of webstores selling the real copy for 500 but Im not touching it till they add offline mode.
 

Xavier0889

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The good news is that SimCity is a solid hit in all major markets. The consensus among critics and players is that this is fundamentally a great game. But this SimCity is made to be played online, and if you can’t get a stable connection, you’re NOT having a good experience. So we’re not going to rest until we’ve fixed the remaining server issues.
I like how "consensus" is kind of just a thing you can pull out of your ass. Which critics say this? Which players? What constitutes "great" in this case? What does "fundamentally" mean? What is "fundamentally great" about SimCity? What evidence do you have to back that up? What other qualifications are attached to this claim?

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Where's that damned Michael Jackson munching on popcorn gif when you need it?

I never realized Sim City would be so entertaining. :D
 

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Apparently their DRM's made everything really fucking fiddly. From what I've read, basically everything's saved into the cloud. I don't even know if manual saving is possible, so if you're randomly kicked off of a server, your connection craps out, or hell, the server goes down (which isn't exactly uncommon with EA's wonderful "You will surely get the Karkland" track record), you lose everything.
 

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