im not sure who DOES like ea cause they are crappy to their dev's too. maybe retailers like them? :P i heard EA was origionally started cause so many game companies treated their employees like crap and required long hours.... now they are by far the worst offenders. damn man fuck those guys :P On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:20 PM, eric drewes <figarus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > wow, ok so for NCAA football this year they stripped a bunch of features > THAT ALREADY EXISTED IN THE GAME and then re-added them as microtransactions > you have to pay real $ for... wow, that is fucking ridiculous. seriously, > people already pay 60 dollars for a game, then they have to pay extra for > content that was already in the game for free last year? You know, for > games like fallout 3, etc. i am cool w/ downloadable content but the thing > about sports games is they basically just sell you a roster update every > year, and the 360/ps3 versions are STILL catching up on features that > existed in ps2/xbox... what else makes it FUCKING TERRIBLE is that EA paid a > ton of money to buy exclusive rights to all major football associations, > college, pro, even canadian league and arena league, so if you want to play > a football game on a console, you are forced to pay for an EA product. > i buy maybe 3-4 games a year tops (this year i have purchased Zero, unless > you count orange box for pc for 10 bucks) -- EA may have just earned a > special place on my "never give these assholes my money no matter how good > their game might be" list. >