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Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by kbenson »

darklajid wrote: post #53
bunderbunder wrote: post #19

I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."

I just bought a AAA title - Destiny 2. Humble Bundle seemed like a decent store, right? I made so many purchases with them in the past. 60 dollars later I had a key that Blizzard wouldn't accept. My Battle.Net account (years old, ooooold) was created in Germany. I lived in different countries since then and currently live in SG, the key that I purchased was locked to the US/Asia Pacific region. Now .. I certainly can…

> For others (Valve, Blizzard) we tend to focus on the positive parts.

Well, people have been focusing on the poor policies of blizzard, especially with respect to battle.net, for decades now.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by bharris62 »

darklajid wrote: post #53
bunderbunder wrote: post #19

I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."

I just bought a AAA title - Destiny 2. Humble Bundle seemed like a decent store, right? I made so many purchases with them in the past. 60 dollars later I had a key that Blizzard wouldn't accept. My Battle.Net account (years old, ooooold) was created in Germany. I lived in different countries since then and currently live in SG, the key that I purchased was locked to the US/Asia Pacific region. Now .. I certainly can…

I think I would rather this happen, than have someone in another country steal my account and easily be able to transfer regions.

with the current system, if someone steals my account, its basically useless.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by rhcom2 »

greysonp wrote: post #55
platetone wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really play games at all, but I've had Factorio bookmarked for a while, thinking I wanted to try it. Think you've just convinced me.

Just one word of advice: be careful :) It's highly addictive.

It also gave me a good case of insectophobia from the enemies you face.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by kbenson »

jasode wrote: post #59
arkh wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The gaming community get new fools to pay for this kind of things every day. Fool me once shame on me. Fool my neighbor's teenager then.

The "new fools" theory sounds plausible but then I see that EA releases new games far faster than the replacement birthrate for gullible teens. E.g. I count 13 games from 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games Therefore, there has to be a significant quantity of repeat buyers who were already burned by EA. (E.g. EA can't wait ~20 years to fool the Millenials after milking the GenX buyers.)

> I count 13 games from 2016

Well, there are a lot of market segments to exploit, and some might not overlap that much. Also, there's 6 games listed for 2017, but each is targeted at multiple platforms so shows up 2-6 times. Finally, with the sports titles, in some cases if you want to play with a roster of real players you don't have a choice but to go with EA.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by EpicEng »

darklajid wrote: post #53
bunderbunder wrote: post #19

I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."

I just bought a AAA title - Destiny 2. Humble Bundle seemed like a decent store, right? I made so many purchases with them in the past. 60 dollars later I had a key that Blizzard wouldn't accept. My Battle.Net account (years old, ooooold) was created in Germany. I lived in different countries since then and currently live in SG, the key that I purchased was locked to the US/Asia Pacific region. Now .. I certainly can…

Except blizzard has a huge pobpem with stolen accounts. This is one way in which they fight that. Yes it's annoying, but people sink thousands of hours into their games and are generally ok with the inconvenience if it means their account is more secure.

For someone like you it may not make sense, but you're not the user they instituted these policies for.

And blizzard gets crap _constantly_ from their user base, you just don't see it because you're not on those forums.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by mysterydip »

choward wrote: post #41
bunderbunder wrote: post #19

I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."

It annoys me when people complain about something and then keep doing it (like buying EA games). The solution is really simple: stop buying/playing their games. It's not like they are a monopoly you are forced to give money to.

There’s a ton of indie games out there willing to give players what the AAA’s aren’t, but the discoverability problem is such that most can’t be bothered to sift through the pile to find the gems, so they just go with whatever games everyone else is playing, which is usually whatever has the biggest advertising budget. It’s a frustrating problem.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by dawnerd »

rtkwe wrote: post #56
Pigo wrote: post #20

If people hate EA so much, why do they keep buying their games? It's not like Time Warner, with a monopoly you can't avoid.

If you want to play a sim sports game (not a sports management sim though there's tons of those) or a Star Wars game EA is pretty much the only option because they have the licenses.

And they end up buying the indie studios and such. Really hard to avoid them.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by megaman22 »

guiomie wrote: post #57

Ahah, not surprised. That game felt like a beta when it was released, I could not comprehend how they could release something like this. I only started getting back into gaming recently, and to my surprise, the issue of launching broken games seems to be industry practice. Battlefield 1 had so many issues, the new CoD:WW2 has so many issues. I stopped gaming a few years ago (last game was CoD:2), and I am shocked tha…

I've already got hundreds of games in my Steam back-catalog. Unless I go on funemployment and turn into the troll from Make Love, not Warcraft, I can't even begin to get through those. Especially when there are Total War and Paradox games in that stack.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by jcfrei »

Pigo wrote: post #20

If people hate EA so much, why do they keep buying their games? It's not like Time Warner, with a monopoly you can't avoid.

They don't. It only seems that way due to a self-selection bias that occurs in internet forums. Negative opinions get overwhelmingly upvoted. Typically a user that just got disappointed by a game will upvote any submission or comment that also criticizes said game.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by sitkack »

greysonp wrote: post #55
platetone wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really play games at all, but I've had Factorio bookmarked for a while, thinking I wanted to try it. Think you've just convinced me.

Just one word of advice: be careful :) It's highly addictive.

But is it Skinner Box addictive?
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