Maybe listen to the complaints and adress them instead of just dismissing them as wrong. This article just made me upset, they would of done better just shutting up.
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#42I cannot forgive EA for the NFL Licensing deal that ended NFL 2K. You shut down better games to push inferior products.
I believe gaming would be in a much better place overall if EA did not exist, despite many early hit titles.
The overall effect on gaming as a whole has been negative.
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#43I stopped reading right here: "Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period." He's flat out lying. I have no interest whatsoever in what he is saying. SimCity can technically run offline, gamers want to run it offline, but EA won't let you run it offline because you could then pirate their software.…
Lying - maybe not. It sure works like a DRM scheme. But EAs position to this has always been "we did it for the social interactions, and to make simCity possible by computing things on our servers!" (sure, that last part was a lie). SimCity can run offline, but it's hard to argue about motivation. Maybe one should give him that point.
In the same spirit - here the sentence he wrote which offended me the most:
> The complaints against us last year were our support of SOPA (not true), and that they didn’t like the ending to Mass Effect 3.
The complaints against the ending of Mass Effect 3 reach far deeper than "not liking". The ending broke every promise and every announcement made about it prior and it lead to the feeling that every decision made in the whole trilogy was meaningless, because no decision had any effect in the ending at all, neither in the result nor in the fight before(!). That is not "not liking", that broke hundreds of thousands of gamer-hearts and still hurts.
To start a PR-fluff-piece with a misleading on such an emotional topic doesn't seem very smart to me.
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#44"The tallest trees catch the most wind."
I hated the article starting there.
It is cowardly, evasive and deceitful. It completely ignores the issues people have with EA.
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#45They could've "done better" by actually saying what they will do to improve things. This was an absolutely atrocious PR piece. It didn't address any of the issues people were having. "45 million registered users are proving them wrong." Such a goofy and useless statistic. When you require registration for your products, that doesn't mean people are satisfied users of your service, it means you got a lot of people to…
I agree 100% to your points.
This is incredible how aggressive this post is, literally saying how stupid we are for not liking what EA do and how wrong we are.
No explanation on what they are going to do, and argumentation worst than an 8th grader "LOL WE HAVE PEOPLE ON ORIGIN SO ITS BETTER THAN STEAM"
no it's not, I play BF3 and wished it was on steam and not origin.
I mean, I PLAYED, because, it's so full of bugs and a pain in the ass just to launch a game with my friends, I never gave them money for the addons...
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#46the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.... and they can't even do that
good luck with that one EA
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#48I stopped reading right here: "Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period." He's flat out lying. I have no interest whatsoever in what he is saying. SimCity can technically run offline, gamers want to run it offline, but EA won't let you run it offline because you could then pirate their software.…
It's such a ridiculous, transparent lie too. Their mythical "intentions" mean nothing when the effect is identical to DRM.
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#49Good.
EA is scared, and taking the threat seriously. They are not scared enough to actually address the issue (instead of doing fake PR speeches), but hopefully it will soon be too late for that.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
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#50Spin 101: Muddy up the legitimate complaints about Origin and the fumbled SimCity launch with anecdotes about conservatives carpetbombing the company with hate mail regarding LGBTQ playables. Notice that was the last bullet point; you move forward to the next paragraph thinking "wow, that's terrible," and you're shocked enough about that to start forgetting the first bullet points. The next paragraph then doubles dow…
Wow. That LGBT bullet point and statement left me mouth agape.
No matter what opinions and thoughts you have on gay marriage and LGBTQ issues, it's blatantly obvious that there is a current cultural shift in the US. In a max of 10 years, and probably much sooner, gay marriage will undoubtedly be legal. And right now, it's more socially acceptable to support gay marriage and hold progressive LGBT views then to not.
So when EA tries to play the 'we will not back down from our core principles!' card, it comes out sounding like a lame cry to try and drum up some good feelings towards EA.
Then the conclusion "The tallest trees catch the most wind. At EA we remain proud and unbowed." just reenforces this.
A poor decision by EA to write and post that statement.