EA turned over a new leaf, or still scum bags?

[Royale With Cheese]

The EA charity humble bundle was a superb move by EA. They are still scum, but this might lighten their public image. However, has anyone noticed that the ability to spend ratiopacks (instead o real money) has been removed from Dead Space 3. A sly deliberate move by EA? i.e. have this game for nearly free but you now need to spend real money to get new weapons as the feature to use ration packs has been removed.

PS. My apologies if this is not posted in the right place. If it can be moved, please do Mr/Mrs Mod.

[Felix]

Care to explain why you personally think EA are scum or have you just jumped on the bandwagon?

[Ineffable Anathema]

This really ought to be in off topic ...

[muckymucks]

The Origin Humble Bundle was not a generous gift to gamers, it ws a business decision, nothing more. They want to take a chunk of Steam users to their client. It didn't work. Steam has more users online at any given time than ever before.

EA is a greedy, destructive cancer on the gaming industry.

[nfr mdw]

i like this comment :EA is a greedy, destructive cancer on the gaming industry ..

[Felix]

Publicado originalmente por muckymucks:

EA is a greedy, destructive cancer on the gaming industry.

Well, you're on the bandwagon for sure. Open your damn eyes.

[Derpy Duck]

Both sides of this Leaf say Money and that is all they care about, EA are lazy talentless money grabbers IMHO

[Royale With Cheese]

Err of the top of my head stuff like closing down good games studios, not supporting games, closing down games servers, DLC and The Sims fiasco (in addition to the point I've already metioned) If you need to know more there is always google where I'm sure you can find more specifics.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I wouldn't say scum, but they are just trying to do things to improve their image. The games on the Humble Bundle were games they already made their money on and atleast 2 years old (or almost).

As for Deadspace 3, does it really matter? Most the DLC I have seen is pointless and any that are worth getting were alredy real money only.

They did pull the only ace up their sleave that they have though, with the great game guarantee. If you read the fine print, you will see it isn't as good as some think and how it wouldn't translate well to another store, especialy one that sells and promote other deverlopers games as opposed to 99% of the games being theirs.

[Royale With Cheese]

Publicado originalmente por Spawn of Totoro:

I wouldn't say scum, but they are just trying to do things to improve their image. The games on the Humble Bundle were games they already made their money on and atleast 2 years old (or almost).

As for Deadspace 3, does it really matter? Most the DLC I have seen is pointless and any that are worth getting were alredy real money only.

They did pull the only ace up their sleave that they have though, with the great game guarantee. If you read the fine print, you will see it isn't as good as some think and how it wouldn't translate well to another store, especialy one that sells and promote other deverlopers games as opposed to 99% of the games being theirs.

I hear what your saying, I know it's only DLC for the game and hardly the end of the world, but why does this change entitlement to what I paid for in the initial purcahse?. Having played a few hours it's not that easy to take when features are strangely/conveniently disabled and there is no choice other than to spend real cash to get the weapons you want/need when this feature was once free with no explination or support from EA.

[Zefar]

So much hate that he actually put it in the help section. What a laugh.

EA have gotten better and the companies they shut down where in the past. I'm sure people will bring up Westwood and Bullfrog but that was like over a decade ago. Other companies do the same thing when things doesn't go too well for them.

Another thing too. EA doesn't "Patch" games. They Publish them. They give Developers money to keep their company up and running. Unless we're talking about a game developed by an EA Studio where it says EA in their name.

So haters need to get updated on that part.

As for the Avatar with scumbag EA. I read about "Destroyed used game market". This is most likely on console with online pass but I think EA wasn't the first. You actually need to put the hate on Gamestop for that though. They didn't want to share any of the profits and companies had to find ways to make money.

If we're talking about PC gaming then it's even a bigger laugh. Used game sales died the moment Cd keys was invented. Been dead ever since.

The biggest laugh is calling the whole Humble Indie Bundle a business move and basically calling them greedy for it. When they donated everything to charity.

So when Steam have a huge sale it's awesome and it doesn't matter how old the games are but when EA does it's greedy as hell and they are not in any way good.

The hate is just spewing out from this thread.

Try another company like.

Activision.
Never reduces the price on the game unless it's half a decade old.
$15 DLC for 3-4 maps.
$60 base price for game
If they can farm something they will. When that ends they will close the studio. Guitar Hero or it was Rock Band. They closed the studio the moment they didn't earn much.

GearBox
Release a ton of DLC. $120+ in total for Borderlands 2.
Screwed up Aliens and Duke Nukem. Royally too.
Like really, how do you screw up those two games? :/
Massive false advertising on the Alien game too. Boy did they false advertise that game.

Capcom
Release the same game over and over with a new title. Super/Ultra/UltraSuper Streetfighter 4
Have locked DLC on Disk. Happened several times.
A Ton of DLC for the game.


There are so many more bad companies at the moment than EA.

But the amount of hate you have for EA means that nothing they do will ever change your mind. They could literally make the best game in the world and you'd still bring up old stuff and whine about how evil they are.

[Traya Tyto]

Here is my logic: (Witch seems to be laging most of the time.) You make a good game, I play it, never sell it, you make a bad game, I still play it, once in a while, never sell it, you make a game that I buy cause I'm curos, I don't like it, play it once every few years, never sell it, you make a game in wich I get bored off of it, I sell it.

Ok back to topic: EA has done some bad, but hey, they have done a good bit of good as well, I'm not the type of person to hate for a long time, you make a good game and I play it forever, make a bad game, and I come back to it sometimes, (And now I'm noy making any sense, am I? ) Anyways, I can look pass some of the serwer ups like C&C4 TT Yeah, I might back and edit this later to make more sense. XD

[intok]

Publicado originalmente por FrazerJC:

Publicado originalmente por muckymucks:

EA is a greedy, destructive cancer on the gaming industry.

Well, you're on the bandwagon for sure. Open your damn eyes.

To what? overpriced crappy games from a company that treats the devs like crap an relies souly on their exclusive contracts to every pro and college sports league in the US to have any kind of leverage at all over the rest of the industry?

Games that where supposed to be new and innovative like Spore ended up being broken crap because if it's not this years refresh of Madden or the rest of the sports games EA doesn't care.

[Funeral Under Moonlight]

Publicado originalmente por Zefar:

So much hate that he actually put it in the help section. What a laugh.

EA have gotten better and the companies they shut down where in the past. I'm sure people will bring up Westwood and Bullfrog but that was like over a decade ago. Other companies do the same thing when things doesn't go too well for them.

Another thing too. EA doesn't "Patch" games. They Publish them. They give Developers money to keep their company up and running. Unless we're talking about a game developed by an EA Studio where it says EA in their name.

So haters need to get updated on that part.

As for the Avatar with scumbag EA. I read about "Destroyed used game market". This is most likely on console with online pass but I think EA wasn't the first. You actually need to put the hate on Gamestop for that though. They didn't want to share any of the profits and companies had to find ways to make money.

If we're talking about PC gaming then it's even a bigger laugh. Used game sales died the moment Cd keys was invented. Been dead ever since.

The biggest laugh is calling the whole Humble Indie Bundle a business move and basically calling them greedy for it. When they donated everything to charity.

So when Steam have a huge sale it's awesome and it doesn't matter how old the games are but when EA does it's greedy as hell and they are not in any way good.

The hate is just spewing out from this thread.

Try another company like.

Activision.
Never reduces the price on the game unless it's half a decade old.
$15 DLC for 3-4 maps.
$60 base price for game
If they can farm something they will. When that ends they will close the studio. Guitar Hero or it was Rock Band. They closed the studio the moment they didn't earn much.

GearBox
Release a ton of DLC. $120+ in total for Borderlands 2.
Screwed up Aliens and Duke Nukem. Royally too.
Like really, how do you screw up those two games? :/
Massive false advertising on the Alien game too. Boy did they false advertise that game.

Capcom
Release the same game over and over with a new title. Super/Ultra/UltraSuper Streetfighter 4
Have locked DLC on Disk. Happened several times.
A Ton of DLC for the game.


There are so many more bad companies at the moment than EA.

But the amount of hate you have for EA means that nothing they do will ever change your mind. They could literally make the best game in the world and you'd still bring up old stuff and whine about how evil they are.

I agree. EA at least is trying to improve their image, although they got a long way to gain the trust of gamers again. Capcom are the worst, I say worse than EA. Activision is jus as bad. Gearbox are horrible, their only good games are Borderlands, Borderlands 2 and that's it.

[Vox]

Until they sort out fair pricing across the globe they can get stuffed

[Vox]

Publicado originalmente por Tatsuya Hiroki:

Publicado originalmente por Labyrinth:

Until they sort out fair pricing across the globe they can get stuffed

Valve is also doing regional pricing so nothing new under the sun. I do agree though that they are absurdly overpricing nearly everything

EA tend to be worse for example they were charging more for BF3 in the UK than the US although some companies do tend to have horrible pricing, I tend to wait until they go on a 75% or more sale

Edit Sims 4 costs £55 or £45 both overpriced to hell