EA Games can kiss my ass

[mojo1701]

Wow, that not to bad at all... You would need to spend 300 bucks in a year to break even but that not that hard to do.

Assuming you buy that much.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Assuming you buy that much.

Well you would still have the gamespy account also... and it is only 6 brand new games... which is alot but not at the same time. (but I've had a job for my hobbies since I was 16, now 28, so I guess I'm spoiled.)

 

[Kanegrundar]

Assuming you buy that much.

At one time, I could and did buy that much easily. Now that I'm playing WoW more than anything else, I don't buy that many games at all. In fact GTA San Andreas and MVP 2005 are the first two games I've bought since WoW.

Kane

 

[Jupp]

No there's still plenty of reasons to hate EA...

Like:

- The Sims
- Buying Janes, then closing it and thus ending one of the best sim game developers
- Buying Origin, then closing it and kickin out Richard Garriot
- For creating some of the worst movie franchise games ever
- For buying Bullfrog, then closing it

the list could go on and on

EA has the habit of buying independent devs only to assimilate their staff into EA. Some time later the company just vanishes.

 

[Boss]

According to the EA site and planetbattlefield, the demo is there, but the link is not working. Guess it is being overloaded right now (350+ MB Multiplayer only demo)

 

[Vigilance]

Uh, no. The NFL didn't get ripped, the fans of other game franchises got screwed. Don't like Madden, but want new players and stats? Tough.

Fortunately, Madden is pretty much stat of the art football imo.

I do consider less choice a bad thing though, I realize not everyone buys the new Madden game every year like me

Chuck

 

[KenM]

The BF2 demo is 546 MB. Right now its a gamespot exclisive, so everyone that wants it has to go there and ooverload the servers. Smart move EA. The biggest shooter of the year. I still hate EA. I have been downloading for over 2 hours and only 42% done.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Fortunately, Madden is pretty much stat of the art football imo.

I do consider less choice a bad thing though, I realize not everyone buys the new Madden game every year like me

Chuck

Except this past year when 2k5 killed it in almost every category.

 

[Captain Tagon]

The BF2 demo is 546 MB. Right now its a gamespot exclisive, so everyone that wants it has to go there and ooverload the servers. Smart move EA. The biggest shooter of the year. I still hate EA. I have been downloading for over 2 hours and only 42% done.

Demand baby. It gets people talking. Adds an air of "status" to getting the demo. Again, not saying it's smart, but I can see their reasoning. Or maybe GameSpot is just making it worth their while.

 

[KenM]

Demand baby. It gets people talking. Adds an air of "status" to getting the demo. Again, not saying it's smart, but I can see their reasoning. Or maybe GameSpot is just making it worth their while.

It won't be worth they're while if they can't handle the load, and they can't. I'm getting 28 kb/sec download on broadband. Its taking me over 4 hours to download it. I am making it my personal mission to tell everyone i know not to use gamespot for anything becuase "they did not see what a demand the biggest shooter of the year" would be. Total BS.