Certified_Heterosexual
The Falklands are Serbian, you cowards.
I wonder what people think of EA's stunning and brave new football game:
https://www.forbes.c...e/#78667b5714b4
And that is just the "game critics" (the most appallingly useless of all useless professions). What about the actual fans?
Holy shit
To put this in perspective, that isn't a 4 out of 10... that's a 0.4 out of 10. I'm sure Madden players have already been called white-supremacist Gamergaters. Although Madden NFL 20 had a 1.4/10 user score on the same site, so it's not just seething about Kaepernick (I wonder how many "games journalists" will remember that, but I'll bet you could count them on one finger).
Madden is but one shining jewel in EA's crown of turds. While we're on the subject, did you know EA has the exclusive right to make NFL-based games? It's a position they secured by screwing NFL 2K out of existence after 2K's 2005 release was better than (and half the price of) EA's offering. The other big football video game (also owned by EA) was NCAA Football, which was discontinued in 2013 due to vicious legal feuding with the NCAA itself. What is the average time elapsed between a corporation gaining monopoly status over a product line and said corporation attempting to force-feed its customers garbage?
This is nothing new, obviously. EA makes its money by screwing over badly-run developer studios and establishing monopolies on desirable brands. They made a deal with Lucasfilm for exclusive Star Wars rights in 2013, and they've made a grand total of four (shitty) games from it (one of which is just a refresh of another one). They're so intent on screwing their business partners that they can't be bothered to produce games for a franchise that guarantees truckloads of nerd money for minimal effort. Of course the sports side is the same story.
They've also pushed microtransactions hard. Apparently this can be profitable—especially in the mobile space, where retarded whales fork over thousands of dollars to customize Star Wars and Marvel characters on mobile games I've never even heard of. They epitomize the corporate effort to turn nerd consumerism into a glorified drug cartel, exploiting the mental weakness of nerds to spend all their discretionary income (why save money when you're already in debt, right?) on some pixels. It's the kind of thing that should result in one of those "moments of clarity" that alcoholics talk about, but of course it never does.
This is mostly a thread for complaining about EA, if you can't tell.
https://www.forbes.c...e/#78667b5714b4
And that is just the "game critics" (the most appallingly useless of all useless professions). What about the actual fans?
Holy shit
To put this in perspective, that isn't a 4 out of 10... that's a 0.4 out of 10. I'm sure Madden players have already been called white-supremacist Gamergaters. Although Madden NFL 20 had a 1.4/10 user score on the same site, so it's not just seething about Kaepernick (I wonder how many "games journalists" will remember that, but I'll bet you could count them on one finger).
Madden is but one shining jewel in EA's crown of turds. While we're on the subject, did you know EA has the exclusive right to make NFL-based games? It's a position they secured by screwing NFL 2K out of existence after 2K's 2005 release was better than (and half the price of) EA's offering. The other big football video game (also owned by EA) was NCAA Football, which was discontinued in 2013 due to vicious legal feuding with the NCAA itself. What is the average time elapsed between a corporation gaining monopoly status over a product line and said corporation attempting to force-feed its customers garbage?
This is nothing new, obviously. EA makes its money by screwing over badly-run developer studios and establishing monopolies on desirable brands. They made a deal with Lucasfilm for exclusive Star Wars rights in 2013, and they've made a grand total of four (shitty) games from it (one of which is just a refresh of another one). They're so intent on screwing their business partners that they can't be bothered to produce games for a franchise that guarantees truckloads of nerd money for minimal effort. Of course the sports side is the same story.
They've also pushed microtransactions hard. Apparently this can be profitable—especially in the mobile space, where retarded whales fork over thousands of dollars to customize Star Wars and Marvel characters on mobile games I've never even heard of. They epitomize the corporate effort to turn nerd consumerism into a glorified drug cartel, exploiting the mental weakness of nerds to spend all their discretionary income (why save money when you're already in debt, right?) on some pixels. It's the kind of thing that should result in one of those "moments of clarity" that alcoholics talk about, but of course it never does.
This is mostly a thread for complaining about EA, if you can't tell.
