[project1dev] Re: wtf EA
- From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:54:02 -0700
FYI that bonus you have to pay back if you leave early - i have one of those
with midway too
midway may soon be warner bros and make it all moot but yeah... they got me
too :P
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Freeland <mattthefiend@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Yeah I LOVE steam, but they still have problems with steam games that are
> heavily packed with DRMs like Bioshock.
>
> No I haven't played the remake but I love the original Tecmo bowl, and the
> John Madden series on the Genesis/SNES... I can't remember which one but it
> was a ton of fun to intentionally injure players and have the ambulance
> drive on to the field and run over everyone, hehehehe
>
> And yeah, EA games finally chilled the fuck out of their DRMs after
> hundreds of thousands of people boycotted the game, and gave it nasty
> reviews on amazon (They had it down to 2 stars at one point) until EA games
> made the announcement they were shipping their future games virtually DRM
> free... as well they released alot of their games onto Steam. They still
> suck though.
>
> One of the big reasons I hate them was their Overtime denial for employees
> a few years ago. They were working people on one of the Lord of the Rings
> games 100+ hours a week on salary and denying them overtime. In addition to
> that, people were brought on to work specifically with retainers in their
> contracts of 2-5k and at the early termination of a contract to work for EA
> games you were required to pay the retainer back. Like a really fucked up
> security deposit. So people who wanted to quit working 100+ hour weeks at 40
> hour pay had to get loans or save up money to quit. THAT is fucked up.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:19 PM, eric drewes <figarus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> hey have you played the tecmo bowl remake for the DS that came out
>> recently?
>> i read about the DRM stuff from EA, pretty ridiculous... wasn't there a
>> huge fiasco w/ spore over this?
>>
>> i love the Valve approach w/ steam... its so nice to never worry about
>> disks and codes again. I noticed blizzard is doing the same thing but
>> unfortunately i cannot find my starcraft code...
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Matthew Freeland <mattthefiend@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah I pretty much said Fuck EA for life about 5 years ago. Not only do
>>> the abuse the shit out of their developers they produce crappy games and the
>>> only lifeline they have these days is their sports games. Don't get me
>>> started on that, I'd rather whip out my nintendo and play Tecmo Bowl than
>>> play most of the new football games. :P
>>>
>>> Also EA games pisses me off hard because they were probably the biggest
>>> adapter of really oppressive and vicious DRM.. They have since backed down
>>> but when I got Sim City 4 I think it was a few years ago I went to install
>>> it and It wouldn't let me install it unless I had an EA Games Passport and
>>> went to sign me up for one and I was like 'Well fuck that shit!'. Ultimately
>>> I went and set up one of the stupid accounts and then I couldn't install the
>>> game because their authentication server was down and assumed I was pirating
>>> it. Fuck EA.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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