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EA sucks
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BruiserBear
Banned
The truth hurts 2K5 fans. lolForkball said:
NemesisPrime
Banned
herod said:
TBH this is a direct result of gamers giving so much power to EA that they managed to arm-wrestle MS into having their own EA Live servers in exchange for 360 support after they ruled the roost on PS2.
A clear case of why big powerful companies are not always a good thing.
Lebron said:
true...
but anyway about something more important..your AV.
know her from SF....my cousin dated her for a quick sec as well. Don't know what he did to fuck it off. She's from the same country. Happy to see she's doing well for herself. Its a trip to see her on GAF.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
tbh, the preorder bullshit is horrible.
They seriously had Tier 1 in MoH unlocked by pre-ordering? That destroys the whole point of it! hahaha
But they release awesome games. As long as the games are awesome, I'll deal with the bullshit, because it honestly doesn't affect me that much and I'm starting to get old.
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They seriously had Tier 1 in MoH unlocked by pre-ordering? That destroys the whole point of it! hahaha
But they release awesome games. As long as the games are awesome, I'll deal with the bullshit, because it honestly doesn't affect me that much and I'm starting to get old.
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This is so true. I stopped playing Dragon Age shortly after that and haven't gone back to it. It was a huge turn off.ghst said:
RockmanWhore
Member
They're also wasting Slighty Mad Studios time and talent by making them make those atrocious NFS Shift game that both suck at being arcade game and simultions. These guys should work on something like Gran Turismo or Forza, not on some NFS turd.
That said, it's not as bad as MS wasting both Lion Head Studio and Crytek working on some atrocious on rail Kinect games.
That said, it's not as bad as MS wasting both Lion Head Studio and Crytek working on some atrocious on rail Kinect games.
NemesisPrime
Banned
daviyoung said:
What? Seriously? I didn't even know this.
Projectjustice
Banned
I hate EA too. I really try not to buy their products. Ever since they started to shut off the online components of their games forcing you to buy the newer version.
Another story about how EA sucks:
My brother borrowed my Xbox 360 HDD so that he could play some DLC I had. He forgot my HDD was in and started to play FIFA (published by EA). Since it was on my HDD/gamertag, it used my EA account for the game. Since my brother is a doofus, he changed the email address of my account to his email address. He didn't need the password, which is weird, but I guess it makes sense, since my HDD/gamertag was already linked to my account and all that.
The problem arose when I wanted to change the email address for the EA account back to my address. I received an email from EA saying that the address had been changed to the new address, but it did not give me an option to say that this was a mistake (you know, the links in the email that say "if this was a mistake, click here"). Basically, my brother had gained complete control of my account. I couldn't get the password reset email because it would be sent to my brother. And guess what, EA live chat support requires you to log in before using it, so I couldn't even do that.
Good job, EA. My account was hijacked, without any approval on my part, and with no way for me to get my account back. If I hadn't been able to talk to my brother (or if somebody other than my brother had taken my account), I would have just lost my account for good.
Ok, yes, I did let my brother use my HDD. But what if my Xbox or gamertag had been stolen? That is not really an uncommon occurrence, and EA should account for that with their system.
My brother borrowed my Xbox 360 HDD so that he could play some DLC I had. He forgot my HDD was in and started to play FIFA (published by EA). Since it was on my HDD/gamertag, it used my EA account for the game. Since my brother is a doofus, he changed the email address of my account to his email address. He didn't need the password, which is weird, but I guess it makes sense, since my HDD/gamertag was already linked to my account and all that.
The problem arose when I wanted to change the email address for the EA account back to my address. I received an email from EA saying that the address had been changed to the new address, but it did not give me an option to say that this was a mistake (you know, the links in the email that say "if this was a mistake, click here"). Basically, my brother had gained complete control of my account. I couldn't get the password reset email because it would be sent to my brother. And guess what, EA live chat support requires you to log in before using it, so I couldn't even do that.
Good job, EA. My account was hijacked, without any approval on my part, and with no way for me to get my account back. If I hadn't been able to talk to my brother (or if somebody other than my brother had taken my account), I would have just lost my account for good.
Ok, yes, I did let my brother use my HDD. But what if my Xbox or gamertag had been stolen? That is not really an uncommon occurrence, and EA should account for that with their system.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Decom said:
If you let your brother use your HDD, why in the hell did he think it was okay to change your e-mail address?
Takamura-San
Member
Snuggler said:
That goodwill didn't translate to sales.
MetalSlime
Banned
Online passes suck.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Normally I'd be right there with you, but they funded Shadows of the Damned, and anyone who does that can't be all bad.
That said, they killed off Westwood, Bullfrog AND Origin, so they're certainly not good.
Your brother sounds like kind of an asshole.
That said, they killed off Westwood, Bullfrog AND Origin, so they're certainly not good.
Decom said:
Your brother sounds like kind of an asshole.
SneakyStephan
Banned
We had these cartridges in Belgium :SmokyDave said:
No tabs here.
Sucka!
SkyMasterson
Member
Stackboy said:
Yea but no Mirrors Edge sequel cancels that out.
Try again.
SkyMasterson
Member
SneakyStephan said:We had these cartridges in Belgium :
No tabs here.
Sucka!
That's a Sonic game bro...
Karsticles
Member
Honestly, I have never played an EA game and enjoyed it. Avoiding them, and Activision, is very easy for me.
Revolutionary
Member
Agreed. Fucking low blow.Mindlog said:
Is this really the name they had to choose? Find out more at origin dot com. Assholes.
gioGAF
Member
I have really enjoyed EA's Dead Space series so far. Dragon Age Origins was also worthwhile if you got the Ultimate edition, but much of the downloadable content was meh. If EA is responsible for the travesty that was Dragon Age II, then that is good reason to dislike them.
I think I would dislike EA more if I played sports games. Paying full price for a yearly update is garbage.
I think I would dislike EA more if I played sports games. Paying full price for a yearly update is garbage.
Snuggler said:
I agree with this after an issue I ran into last week. Ive used jergrah as my GT/PSN/etc forever. When I post on the EA boards, it shows up as jergrah. Well last week, all of a sudden whenever I went to EA's sites, I would get prompted to set my EA Master ID - a new requirement with Origin in place now. I used 'jergrah' again and it said it was already in use. I thought it was already set at EA, considering everything I do on any of their sites shows as jergrah.
Come to find out, 8+ years ago I converted my email address on EA.com from a hotmail account to a comcast account. Apparently, that Master ID of jergrah stayed with the hotmail account, even though all I did was update my email address. I was on the phone with EA Support for 30+ minutes when they figured this out. Even when they did, they told me "there is nothing we can do -- no one will ever be able to use that ID". Not a huge deal by any means, but now my EA Master ID will always have to be "jergrah1" because updating your email address on their site disassociates your Master ID forever (or it did way back then).
I dont agree with the thread title that EA sucks --- but this experience last week made me pretty frustrated with the entire EA Login setup and situation.
old manatee
Banned
I just got an email that looks like it's from EA saying that my password for Battlefield Heroes has been reset, which I assume is a result of the beta getting hacked. I spent an hour on their site trying to cancel my account with no luck.
Back in the day all of my Battlefield 2 stats were wiped randomly and I was permanently locked out of my account.
I've bought every Battlefield game and expansion that came out on pc, but when I tried to register them with EA to unlock the Garand in Bad Company 2 they told me that every single key was invalid.
I've been kicked from literally hundreds of Battlefield servers over the years because of Punkbuster
I bought the Mirror's Edge dlc and it turns out that the drm they used makes the dlc incompatible with the Steam version. They've never fixed it and refused to refund my money.
Battlefield 3 will be the first Battlefield I don't buy.
Back in the day all of my Battlefield 2 stats were wiped randomly and I was permanently locked out of my account.
I've bought every Battlefield game and expansion that came out on pc, but when I tried to register them with EA to unlock the Garand in Bad Company 2 they told me that every single key was invalid.
I've been kicked from literally hundreds of Battlefield servers over the years because of Punkbuster
I bought the Mirror's Edge dlc and it turns out that the drm they used makes the dlc incompatible with the Steam version. They've never fixed it and refused to refund my money.
Battlefield 3 will be the first Battlefield I don't buy.
The Lamonster
Member
EA does suck; yet I do really like Peter Moore.
jergrah said:
That happened to my main online user ID that I use. But they recently threw all the old inactives into the trash can and I was able to reclaim it. I probably should log in and see if the whole reset password has screwed it up. I'd hate to wait another 5 years to get it back.
Fox Mulder
Member
KevinRo said:
The exclusive licenses are dumb, but anyone can still create a football game, just not an nfl or ncaa game.
Snuggler said:
Just popped in to say I HATE that line of thinking too. Every time a thread comes up that involves a company deliberately screwing over consumers, there's always at least one person that simply says "Companies need to make money!" as if most of us aren't smart enough to realize that already.
KevinRo said:
Blame the NFL -- not EA. Just like with MLB, blame them, not 2K. All of these properties wanted more control of the products they officially licensed, so easiest solution was to open it up for bidding and pick a winner. EA won the NFL, 2K won the MLB. At the time when this happened, 2K had the best football game on the market and EA had the best baseball game on the market --- so only gamers got screwed.
You can blame lots of things, but if you look at the timing, a lot of this occurred after MLB Slugfest resulted in a lawsuit that included not only the Developer/Distributor but also MLB for licensing the product. The game was rated E10 I believe, but included batters hitting fielders with the bats and spiking guys while sliding into a base. Some lady saw her kid playing, got pissed and went to court. And even around that same time, the NFL was constantly at odds with Midway on how they were portraying the game of football and players in Blitz.
Im not saying I think exclusive licenses are good, I think they are complete shit. Im just saying in this instance, you cant really blame EA.
Game2Death
Banned
Not to start anything...but why is Activision so evil in everyone's eyes? Sure they don't really make new IP's, and they drove a few of their franchises into the ground, but they aren't doing a lot of shitty stuff EA is doing. For example:
-No online passes/pre-order DLC for their games or COD
-For your marketing point, their new trailers have been pretty cool. Granted I still don't buy their map packs, but hey.
-And I don't think they really buyout any licenses or anything? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sure...their DLC is expensive and that whole COD Elite thing is bull, but we have yet to see how that pans out.
Just sayin.
-No online passes/pre-order DLC for their games or COD
-For your marketing point, their new trailers have been pretty cool. Granted I still don't buy their map packs, but hey.
-And I don't think they really buyout any licenses or anything? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sure...their DLC is expensive and that whole COD Elite thing is bull, but we have yet to see how that pans out.
Just sayin.