Re: GODDAMN IT EA!! NOT ANOTHER THING!!!

Divine Virus · by Divine Virus on Tue May 11, 2010 11:41 pm

Vigil wrote:Good thing EA servers are some of the worst in the business that they barely function.

Battlefield: BC2 works great. But I guess that would be the one that works right out of many that don't work properly, huh?

Indecisive One. · by Indecisive One. on Tue May 11, 2010 11:43 pm

I had no idea EA made BFBC2. But then again I never played it.

**Vigil** · by **Vigil** on Tue May 11, 2010 11:48 pm

Let me see.

Army of Two, and Army of Two the 40th day

C&C 3 and Kanes wrath has a poor system- only good for friendly games.

Godfather and Godfather II

LOTR: Battle for Middle earth 2.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Divine Virus · by Divine Virus on Tue May 11, 2010 11:53 pm

Out of those that you listed the only one(s) I've played and owned is CnC3 & Kane's Wrath & RA3. And I never had any problems when playing online. Even when playing against randoms. Call me lucky.

Not saying that the EA servers are great or anything just that my experience with a few of their online games has been more then fine with me.

**Vigil** · by **Vigil** on Tue May 11, 2010 11:57 pm

They range from decent to absolute failures.

Army of the Two is the biggest offender. That game was region locked, so I can only play with other players in europe, AND IT STILL LAGS TERRIBLY.

Divine Virus · by Divine Virus on Wed May 12, 2010 12:01 am

Oh! I got another one...

Burnout Paradise. That games online is fantastic.

And I could care less about games like Army of Two, that's just me. Razz

**Vigil** · by **Vigil** on Wed May 12, 2010 12:08 am

The way I see it is this

If they have a thrid party develop it, they're usually okay (Or superb if your Dice)

If they make them, they're terrible (e.g Army of two)

TNine · by TNine on Wed May 12, 2010 12:29 am

I don't see the problem. It's not like they are giving a big "Fuck you" to their loyal fans, MW2 style.

They are simply returning a favor to those that choose to buy second-hand. I've never done this, so no problem here.

KristallNacht · by KristallNacht on Wed May 12, 2010 2:47 am

basically, they're just making more pirates, so I don't give a fuck.

Just wait for Google to appear as a publisher and all will be good.

ps. for those that never noticed, Google tends to start stepping into the territory of every company that starts overstepping their bounds when it comes to serving the people.

VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!

PiEdude · by PiEdude on Wed May 12, 2010 2:50 am

This is only gonna hurt Blockbuster.

**Rotaretilbo** · by **Rotaretilbo** on Wed May 12, 2010 2:58 am

Frankly, this will probably put the retailers out of business.

PiEdude · by PiEdude on Wed May 12, 2010 3:03 am

Yeah, but I meant in regards to Blockbuster, it's not going to help the franchise at all, therefore, only hurting it.

I just felt I needed to clarify.

**Lord Pheonix** · by **Lord Pheonix** on Wed May 12, 2010 3:08 am

Gonna be a lot of pissed off casual gamers who will never have heard about this buying games off their friends.

And it pretty much kills borrowing games from people.

**Rotaretilbo** · by **Rotaretilbo** on Wed May 12, 2010 4:04 am

As far as I can tell, Blockbuster and Hollywood Video are already out of business, or soon will be. This could be the final nail in the coffin for them. I'm more concerned about game retailers that carry all games. I've been through Walmart's video game aisles, and I've got to say, they really don't carry much. I guess, on the bright side, it will probably force tons of third party developers to Steam...

TNine · by TNine on Wed May 12, 2010 4:15 am

KristallNacht wrote:basically, they're just making more pirates, so I don't give a fuck.

Just wait for Google to appear as a publisher and all will be good.

ps. for those that never noticed, Google tends to start stepping into the territory of every company that starts overstepping their bounds when it comes to serving the people.

VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!

Two things:
1.) How long do you honestly think piracy will last? Another ten, fifteen years? Anti-piracy laws and enforcement has only been going up, i can't honestly see it lasting much longer.

2.) The problem here is that the people that care about this change aren't worth a damn anyway. It's not like DRM, where it hurts everyone, this new rule hurts only the people that it's meant to hurt. The big question here is why SHOULDN'T EA do this?