How to Fuck Up a Beloved Franchise

[Eraser]

By now they're past the point where they can say "ok, we've fucked things up and we're sorry about it" and look good because of it. They've been patching lies with lies and it all just turned too ugly for consolidation.

[MKJ]

The game automatically stops working after a maximum of 20 mins if connection with the internets is lost..
"it will take significant engineering to include an offline mode", so said EA.

oh.. that's not true either;

The code is here. "Simply commenting out Line #22 defeats the force disconnect," says the person who posted it. The removal allows offline play indefinitely.

"significant engineering"

[Plan B]

And still poor fuckers (try to) play this.
I applaud and pitty them.

Seriously, if you pay good money for a product and get so fucked over, stop, try to get your money back, and never buy anything from them again.

[MKJ]

regardless, they even dare to brag about the numbers.

http://news.ea.com/press-release/compan ... ion-launch

this is not something you want to turn the spotlights to bros.

[edit] olo that was quick; http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.ph ... stcount=87

[GONNAFISTYA]

Seriously, if you pay good money for a product and get so fucked over, stop, try to get your money back, and never buy anything from them again.

QFFuckingT

[losCHUNK]

But people still give money to EA by the bucketload, companies like Bioware get enhanced by having such a big brand backing them

I wish they would burn like THQ so that the IPs can get taken up by people who give a shit (not thinking about the redundancies obv :/ )

[U4EA]

Riccitiello "resigns".

[MKJ]

Seriously, if you pay good money for a product and get so fucked over, stop, try to get your money back, and never buy anything from them again.

QFFuckingT

w3rd. be sure not to confuse devs with publishers here though. in this case, it's mostly maxis who's fucking it all up.

all the original devs from Maxis moved on anyway, fuck 'm.

[Plan B]

Aaargh, so infuriating to give your best, only to have it fucked up by "higher ups".
In my experience, that goes for a lot of jobs, btw, not only game dev

[Captain]

[Ryoki]

[Transient]

This "free game" that EA is offering as an apology is fucking bullshit. They're digital copies, so it costs EA nothing. Plus, how many of those games offer microtransactions? Win-win for EA.

The list isn't all that great, either. Bejeweled 3? Are you kidding me?

Battlefield 3
Dead Space 3
Mass Effect 3
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Bejeweled 3
Plants vs Zombies

[obsidian]

The new SimCity doesn't work, so they're giving you a copy of SimCity 4 so that you can play that instead?

[MKJ]

rofl
not as bad as what Konami did with Silent Hill HD for x360.
that was broken beyond belief - crashes, missing shaders, left/right audio channels flipped (lol). They said releasing a patch was too expensive so instead they offered a free game of your choice. One of which was.. Silent Hill HD PS3.
n1.

http://kotaku.com/5933814/did-you-buy-a ... on-the-ps2

[Psyche911]

Yahtzee vs. Sim City.

[Don Carlos]

rofl
not as bad as what Konami did with Silent Hill HD for x360.
that was broken beyond belief - crashes, missing shaders, left/right audio channels flipped (lol). They said releasing a patch was too expensive so instead they offered a free game of your choice. One of which was.. Silent Hill HD PS3.
n1.

http://kotaku.com/5933814/did-you-buy-a ... on-the-ps2

Too expensive to patch

I don't even...

[Psyche911]

Don't quote me on this, but I believe Microsoft imposes a fee on each patch release? Or limiting one patch per _____ weeks/months/etc.?

They didn't want to pay the fee to have Microsoft's servers deliver the patch, it sounds like.

I think there was a similar issue with Magika or another game like that.

Info here:

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/1 ... osts-40000

$40,000 to issue a patch on XBox 360.

[MKJ]

Same for ps3. But, the first patch is free (only fair) and they didn't even make that.
So they were purely talking about internal costs.

[MKJ]

trololol, EA doesn't do much to fix their reputation;

http://kotaku.com/hooray-the-first-free ... -466266048

[Eraser]

ffs EA

[Don Carlos]

Jesus....

[GONNAFISTYA]

lol

That reminds me of "A Christmas Story" wherein the kid collects a bunch of Ovaltine ring-decoder crap just to "win" the prize of...you guessed it...another fucking advertisment.

[Transient]

On the site it says the DLC will "only" be available for 6 months. For those few who want it, they better hope the download works some time before the offer ends, because right now the download is broken.

[GONNAFISTYA]

[Transient]

I needed that smile today. Thanks, GKY.