Vapourware LOL ELECTRONIC ARTS: The EA Thread

[evdk]

It's a comedy reference, but what other language looks like something Lovecraft cooked up, but with all those weird letters and without apostrophes?

Chřaščiževošice. Hmm, that's not as terrible as I thought.

 

[DraQ]

Well, there is also Russian, but it's effectively just daedric script.

 

[Kirtai]

It's a comedy reference, but what other language looks like something Lovecraft cooked up, but with all those weird letters and without apostrophes?

Ah, I thought it was a place name. It does look like it's from a slavic language.

BTW, ever looked at celtic languages? Some really odd looking spelling there.

 

[evdk]

Ah, I thought it was a place name. It does look like it's from a slavic language.

It is a place name, just not a real place.

 

[DraQ]

It's a comedy reference, but what other language looks like something Lovecraft cooked up, but with all those weird letters and without apostrophes?

Ah, I thought it was a place name.

Well, it is, but the place is fictional and the name was presumably invented on the spot to troll a a gestapo officer in that comedy.

 

[Kirtai]

Now I get it. Someone should put it in google maps just to troll people more

 

[tuluse]

Ah, I thought it was a place name. It does look like it's from a slavic language.

BTW, ever looked at celtic languages? Some really odd looking spelling there.

So odd people think PE names are Sawyer dicking around.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Now I get it. Someone should put it in google maps just to troll people more

 

[Sodafish]

And an additional question: since when does Potato mean dirty Slavs in general?

I admit I was somewhat confused myself about whether : x was strictly from Poland or from eastern Europe more generally.

 

[DraQ]

Now I get it. Someone should put it in google maps just to troll people more

It just doesn't get old.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Damn right.

 

[Brinko]

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/ea-kills-its-controversial-online-pass-program/

EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response.
“Yes, we’re discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg confirmed to GamesBeat in an e-mail. “None of our new EA titles will include that feature.”
The modern military first-person shooter Battlefield 3 and a number of other EA games such as Madden NFL use Online Pass. You need it in order to play many of a game’s online features, including multiplayer. A code activates the Pass, which has a one-time use. You need a new code (which the publisher offers, of course, for a fee) if you’re playing the game on another console or if you bought the software used and the original owner redeemed the original. But players never embraced this feature.
“Initially launched as an effort to package a full menu of online content and services, many players didn’t respond to the format,” Reseburg said. “We’ve listened to the feedback and decided to do away with it moving forward.”
Online Pass is seen by publishers as a bulwark against the second-hand market, which retailer GameStop dominates. Publishers were worried that consumers were buying games used instead of new — especially big games with popular multiplayer modes. So the online pass became a way that publishers forced consumers to either buy a game new — or pay extra for online.
But from this point forward, you won’t need an Online Pass for any of EA’s games online.
“We’re still committed to creating content and services that enhance the game experience well beyond the day you first start playing,” Reseburg said.
EA wasn’t the only publisher using an online pass system. Activision and Ubisoft are among a handful that make use of it.

 

[Infinitron]

What does that mean, "didn't respond"?

 

[Brinko]

My guess is that many people who bought EA games second hand didn't give a shit about the "exclusive content" removed to warrant them paying the charge.

 

[Kirtai]

It's probably doublespeak for "the response was negative". Or more colloquially they hated it with the intensity of a thousand fiery suns but that doesn't make good publicity.

 

[Whisky]

Well, at least it's gone, regardless if they're not owning up to it being fucked up.

Of course, I haven't bought their games recently to begin with.

 

[Flanged]

what other language looks like something Lovecraft cooked up, but with all those weird letters and without apostrophes?

The Elder Gods speak Welsh.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Well, at least it's gone, regardless if they're not owning up to it being fucked up.

Stopping it is an admission to it being fucked up.

It looks like something has burst the bubble with EA's outlook here.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Maybe the mass firings woke up some mother fuckers asleep at the wheel?

 

[Whisky]

what other language looks like something Lovecraft cooked up, but with all those weird letters and without apostrophes?

The Elder Gods speak Welsh.

Shadow Over Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

 

[Kirtai]

Shadow Over Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Given how phonetic celtic languages tend to be it's probably much easier to pronounce than the usual Lovecraftian stuff.

 

[Borelli]

what other language looks like something Lovecraft cooked up, but with all those weird letters and without apostrophes?

The Elder Gods speak Welsh.

Good thing they put english on that table too otherwise i could not be able to read that at all.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Meanwhile in EA headquerters, evil masterminds want a piece of them MOBA cake.

 

[Zewp]

They're probably going to impose a bunch of P2W features, then wonder why their game can't topple the LoL empire.

 

[Jashiin]

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/ea-kills-its-controversial-online-pass-program/

“We’re still committed to creating content and services that enhance the game experience well beyond the day you first start playing,” Reseburg said.

I just can't help but hahaohwow reading drivel like this.