With all of it's little nod's to older Sim City titles like 2000 with it's Arcologies
(Launch Arcology ftw!!!) the game actually looked promising and even fun,
safe for EA's "so-called" anti-piracy policies of course.
Electronic Arts really overdoes it with their "anti-piracy" policy this time and together with their policy towards user refunds I begin to get the impression that EA's managing directorship must be mistaking itself for ruling elite of George Orwells Oceania . . .
Talk about delusions!!! :eek:
I mean seriously, banning customer's accounts because they justifiably asked for a refund!?
What the heck!?
EA's mangers must all be socialists! No manners and uncapable of accepting criticism.
C'mon Cryptic, the Typhoon Battleship is the most aggressive and badass looking ship in the entire Starfleet. How could it not be playable!?
And don't forget about the Jupiter and the Balaur and every other awesome NPC ship that absolutely deserves to be playable!
C'mon Cryptic, we know you can do it!
Lol yeah the big time games back then like Monkey Island 2 or Fate of Atlantis required 5 disks with groundbreaking VGA graphics and Sound Blaster stereo or Adlib!!!!
Ah... those were the days. Instead of worrying about having a constantly connected internet and patching all the bugs out of the game, you installed the game disc by disc... and read the giant sized instruction manual for it.
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
And people were darned proud of their massive 250 MB hard drives!
In those days - 250 MB drives were MASSIVE - the average drive size in those days was 20 MB to 40 MB - and a partition was limited to 30 MB. (I know as I used to build them in those days.)
Formerly known as Armsman from June 2008 to June 20, 2012 PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
Obviously the best way for EA to combat piracy is to make piracy the only way to actually play the game.
Yarr...
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...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
I loved Sim City 4, and would have considered getting the new one, but I read that because your city's save file exists server-side, all changes to it are permanent. Which means you can't build up a booming metropolis of 1 million people, and then rain fire and death down onto it for fun, and then reload your city. You could do that in previous versions because your save files were on your PC.
Exactly! Who would want to play SimCity without unleashing cosmic smitings?
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
You know the best part of this mess? It got me playing Simcity 2000 again. Remember kids, you can get a version of 2000 on Good Old Games. Go forth and play.
I know there is a method but all I see is madness.
EA games poision everything they touch . At the rate they are going, I never expect to see a Dragon Age III. If It does arrive, I'm sure it will be craptastic.:mad:
yeah, DA:O was great, loved the story and character development. If a 3rd ever does make it, I hope they go back to the formula that worked. Sim City was just so much fun, loved saving the game the just going to town, demolishing the city with a flurry of disasters.
Ah... those were the days. Instead of worrying about having a constantly connected internet and patching all the bugs out of the game, you installed the game disc by disc... and read the giant sized instruction manual for it.
I remember playing a game called midwinter the manual was actualy a short novel. On 5 1/4 inch floppys no less.
If you never played it think far cry...in 32 bit......
They just don't make them like they used too.....
As a time traveller, Am I supposed to pack underwear or underwhen?
Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln
I miss the old boxed sets with the feelies. A nice thick spiral-bound manual. Fallout's had post-apocalyptic recipes and everything. Starship Titanic had actual tickets and the in-flight magazine. It all made it worth buying your own copy.
Threatening to ban your origin account for asking for a refund?
Thats blatantly illegal. Consumer protection laws guarantee a customers right to get what they paid for. If people are asking for a refund for a legitimate reason they can't be banned or threatened in any way. If they are unable to use a product they paid for because of the actions of the company (say...like being unable to login to play it because EA has no idea how to properly provide for all the connections) then they have every right to a refund. Threatening customers is the kind of thing companies get sued for
In those days - 250 MB drives were MASSIVE - the average drive size in those days was 20 MB to 40 MB - and a partition was limited to 30 MB. (I know as I used to build them in those days.)
a quote from a former meridian 59 developer in 1994:
'we spent the better part of our life savings on two top of the line machines: pentium 66's with 64mb of memory and 500mb harddrives...'
it was good back then
I miss the old boxed sets with the feelies. A nice thick spiral-bound manual. Fallout's had post-apocalyptic recipes and everything.
indeed. i've still got mine. the ones for baldurs gate 1 and 2 were really well done. someone put some serious effort into those. especially the first one
The EA CEO got axed for the horrible Sim City launch. :mad: Mwhahaahah!!
That may have just been the straw that broke the camel's back as it were. I have a feeling the continuing SWToR debacle probably started the ball rolling and this latest mess just sealed the deal as it were.
Formerly known as Armsman from June 2008 to June 20, 2012 PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
He resigned because EA did not meet the profits they wanted, and he felt accountable.....not about the customer and how unhappy they are and how they got screwed by EA...about the money.
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With all of it's little nod's to older Sim City titles like 2000 with it's Arcologies
(Launch Arcology ftw!!!) the game actually looked promising and even fun,
safe for EA's "so-called" anti-piracy policies of course.
Electronic Arts really overdoes it with their "anti-piracy" policy this time and together with their policy towards user refunds I begin to get the impression that EA's managing directorship must be mistaking itself for ruling elite of George Orwells Oceania . . .
Talk about delusions!!! :eek:
I mean seriously, banning customer's accounts because they justifiably asked for a refund!?
What the heck!?
EA's mangers must all be socialists! No manners and uncapable of accepting criticism.
And don't forget about the Jupiter and the Balaur and every other awesome NPC ship that absolutely deserves to be playable!
C'mon Cryptic, we know you can do it!
Ah... those were the days. Instead of worrying about having a constantly connected internet and patching all the bugs out of the game, you installed the game disc by disc... and read the giant sized instruction manual for it.
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
In those days - 250 MB drives were MASSIVE - the average drive size in those days was 20 MB to 40 MB - and a partition was limited to 30 MB. (I know as I used to build them in those days.)
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
Yarr...
...
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
Exactly! Who would want to play SimCity without unleashing cosmic smitings?
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
Yo ho, yo ho!
Not EA apparently.
I remember playing a game called midwinter the manual was actualy a short novel. On 5 1/4 inch floppys no less.
If you never played it think far cry...in 32 bit......
They just don't make them like they used too.....
Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln
Occidere populo et effercio confractus
Thats blatantly illegal. Consumer protection laws guarantee a customers right to get what they paid for. If people are asking for a refund for a legitimate reason they can't be banned or threatened in any way. If they are unable to use a product they paid for because of the actions of the company (say...like being unable to login to play it because EA has no idea how to properly provide for all the connections) then they have every right to a refund. Threatening customers is the kind of thing companies get sued for
a quote from a former meridian 59 developer in 1994:
'we spent the better part of our life savings on two top of the line machines: pentium 66's with 64mb of memory and 500mb harddrives...'
it was good back then
indeed. i've still got mine. the ones for baldurs gate 1 and 2 were really well done. someone put some serious effort into those. especially the first one
The EA CEO got axed for the horrible Sim City launch. :mad: Mwhahaahah!!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
AhHAhahahahah! Someone certainly didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.
That may have just been the straw that broke the camel's back as it were. I have a feeling the continuing SWToR debacle probably started the ball rolling and this latest mess just sealed the deal as it were.
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/03/18/john-riccitiello-steps-down-as-ea-ceo/
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122761-EA-CEO-John-Riccitiello-Resigns-UPDATED
Pretty sure his payout will help him sleep at night.