EA Games can kiss my ass

[Captain Tagon]

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.

And I'm saying it's just a video game. EA knows it will still sell like hot cakes. They can do whatever they want with the demo.

 

[KenM]

And I'm saying it's just a video game. EA knows it will still sell like hot cakes. They can do whatever they want with the demo.

I was not talking about EA, I was talking about gamespot. They knew in advance that demand was sky high for this demo, but when it was time for them to have the servers in good order so people can download the demo at a decent rate they blew it and give the standard answer of "we did not think the demand would be so high". They knew that having it as an exlclisive would flood they're servers.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Total BS.

Now, now, leave me out of this.

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

Indeed, unfortunately the only game that allows you to play from college to the pros is EA’s games.

 

[Captain Tagon]

On another note I can't even get the demo to download yet, so feel lucky. Oh well, time to go play the FEAR demo. Or AO for free. Or whatever.

 

[KenM]

http://www.fileplanet.com/154385/download/Battlefield-2-Demo


Its finally on Fileplanet. Gamespot can't handle the load. I'm almost done downloadign it from Fileplanet, it took about 18 minutes. At the time I started the Fileplanet download, I only had 65% of the gamespot download done, and over 2 hour wait there.

 

[Lazybones]

http://www.fileplanet.com/154385/download/Battlefield-2-Demo


Its finally on Fileplanet. Gamespot can't handle the load. I'm almost done downloadign it from Fileplanet, it took about 18 minutes. At the time I started the Fileplanet download, I only had 65% of the gamespot download done, and over 2 hour wait there.

I'm getting 15KB/s from one of the EA links; GameSpot and Download.com are saturated and the torrent I tried maxxed out at around 2KiB/s (upload was 10x down). Looks like an overnight deal, which is fine, I guess; I don't want it enough to pay.

 

[Kanegrundar]

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

I agree totally. Madden is the alpha and omega of video game football. That's why I'm pissed. Take 2 sucks at baseball games compared to EA's MVP franchise, but I won't get any more MVP games until Take 2's lisence expires. This whole exclusive deal is just fouling up the works.

At least I can play a 20 season dynasty with MVP 2005. That ought to slake my baseball hunger for quite a while.

Kane

 

[Dark Jezter]

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.

No offense, but it sounds a little hollow when you chant "I hate EA" over and over again, and then talk about how you're halfway through downloading one of their games.

If you really hated EA, you think that you'd put your money where your mouth is and not buy or play their games.

 

[mojo1701]

If you really hated EA, you think that you'd put your money where your mouth is and not buy or play their games.

Or buy it used from someone who's already paid for it.

 

[The_lurkeR]

For those still interested, the demo can be found on many download sites now, like FileShack, and through p2p like bit-torrent.

I've been playing it a bit, it's nice. Sort of like a polished Desert Combat... nothing really special though.