So, if you want to buy Need for Speed: Most Wanted or Dead Space 3, you can buy SimCity and get them for free, paying the same price. And not even like that is a worthy deal.
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Let the DRM rape continue! New SimCity
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Clockwork Knight
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Dohohoho. How predictaburu.
I can't stop laughing
Dexter
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hiver
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Yeah, that water house is awesome.
also,
:head roll:
also,
:head roll:
What a fail. Take away all the free games they are giving, all the requests for refunds, falling profits, missing quarter goals and future damages... they wont even have for a chewing gums.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
i don't get why these retards don't get it.
of course they're not obliged to make an offline game, but tell me why i'm obliged not to say that ea is a shit company which robs customers, cheats, insults and shitcity is a retarded game for retarded people who can't recognize quality if it anally raped them as ea did with simcity franchise since societies whom this one is a direct devolution.
these are not opinions, are facts, countable, numerable, indexable facts.
Dexter
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Monocause
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They really should take a different PR direction. What they're doing now is really astoundingly selfdefeating; just a fucking acknowledgment of the server issues coupled with an optimistic paragraph about the SC team being hard at work on providing the best possible experience would make it look much better. As it is now everyone knows that the launch was a fiasco in multiple ways and yet the only thing they mention is "deploying fixes" which is the worst kind of corporate PR you get.
It's like one of these natural resources companies which refuse to acknowledge that they irreversibly damaged an ecosystem in spite of the fact that the world media were talking about it for weeks. There's not much worse you can do than giving a "business as usual" brief in such cases. The main difference is that natural resources corps were (and in many cases still are) both politically and economically in a position in which they could get away with such arrogance while EA is a corp which reputation is much more directly tied to market performance.
We may whine how stupid folks still buy these games, but it's really noticeable how tarnished their reputation is. Just google EA or do a youtube search, there's hundreds upon hundreds of blog posts, forum posts, videos bashing their policies. Word gets around and slowly but surely it makes its mark and alienating your own consumer base is not a way for a business to operate in the long-term. Right now the shareholders might feel reassured, but as the sales drop that sort of PR just won't cut it anymore, and when the shit hits the fan it'll be too late to flip-flop and acknowledge past mistakes and misdeeds. The brand will be finished and there'll be no-one to talk to anymore.
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I'm not surprised the list is like eight games, but I am surprised it's not loaded with 'winners' like Dragon Age 2, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and Sims 3 expansion packs.
Oh wait, Warfighter is on there, 1/3 aint bad I guess.
circ
Arcane
Bugs are nice and all but no one mentioned the hideous consolitis textures?
Micmu
Magister
I was too busy laughing at "AI" to notice the goddamn textures.
This is absolutely retarded. More entertaining than Big Rigs and Dung Lords together.
Who the fuck "plays" this shit? It's unplayable.
This is absolutely retarded. More entertaining than Big Rigs and Dung Lords together.
Who the fuck "plays" this shit? It's unplayable.
hiver
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I can only agree.
Its really a global issue of certain type of behavior. Those examples of natural resources companies is another good example.
Politicians are another. The whole fucking system is leaking in these specific types of personalities who get to positions of "power" and influence not because they actually know how to do business, but because they are greedy fucks and assholes who will trample over bodies to get to those positions.
And then the system itself doesnt have any measure to repel such people.
So you end up with rule makers who are literally incompetent to do the job in the best way - but are over competent to be greedy assholes. who spend all their time warring with each other, while everything around them collapses - which doesn't have any immediate influence on them because they dont live in same conditions as the rest of society. A separate socio-economic caste.
In my country it is so, in yours it is so - i dont even need to know or ask which country that is. Because its the same all over. China, middle east, Americas, Africa, Europe... same shit. Same underlying system.
They say: Capitalism vs Communism? HAH! pull another one!
Exactly the same. Exactly. Ruling caste of parasites, living on work of those who actually create. Parasites who invented how indispensable they are.
Its the same in economy at large and same in entertainment business.
Parasites living on work and creativity and talents and knowledge of "creators".
A guy gets hired and he fires a 100,000 people and thats great? Because people just like him can recalculate all that into some fictional profit?
A guy gets to the top of EA, buys other productive studios then pushes them into absurd shit in order to make that "profit" - while on the other hand he spends zillions on utter shit, like PR which consists of same kind of people, then he fires everyone and ruins that studio.
Of course its never just one guy. he fires or drives away everyone who is actually capable because he sees them as threats to his position and hires same people like he is - only weaker.
Short term "profit" is victory?
And then when their actual true incompetence starts to tear everything down - they literally do not know anything else but to use PR.
because they are fucking stupid and limited.
Its a fucking slow, slow process because people are stupid and also so susceptible to short term gains - because we are all so short lived and mortal, and that an incredible force, but this obvious stupidity is more and more obvious.
Examples just keep piling on.
Its a shame it will last whatever it will all last still, because its already too long, but it will go down the drain. All of it.
i just hope to see it, finally and totally collapsing, if nothing else.
I wouldnt be surprised if most people are playing this shit now for lulz.
kinda stupid of course but very probable i think.
Of course there is a section who are just too ignorant or find it easier to believe in blatant PR bullshit.
fizzelopeguss
Arcane
To be fair it's a series that goes beyond the average gamer. "i played the last sim city donkeys years ago and it was pretty cool, i might buy this new one"
All without knowing a god damn thing about the mulitplayer bollocks or the fact that they turned it into tropico.
Trojan_generic
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This comedy continues.
http://kotaku.com/5990997/coders-discover-20+minute-offline-timeout-in-simcity
Servers are needed to calculate how many minutes player has been offline, that's why they are needed.
http://kotaku.com/5990997/coders-discover-20+minute-offline-timeout-in-simcity
Servers are needed to calculate how many minutes player has been offline, that's why they are needed.
Oh man, the best part is that this whole situation is so fucked up, that finding fishy stuff in Simcity became the hackers main purpose. It won't stop.
MadMaxHellfire
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welcome to the last week.
Trojan_generic
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I had missed this. I guess I have to fire my sources.
sea
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Yeah I don't get it, EA were playing up that the game looks "amazing" and "inspires creativity" and "like a children's toy box" etc.
Too bad that once you turn off the bloom filter/blur you realize that visually it's only a small step up from SimCity 4. Comparing this game to something like Tropico 3 or 4, made by a much smaller company with far smaller budget and resources, is just too funny.
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