Which? Convo: Last week, video game publisher Electronic Arts announced its intention to close several online multiplayer servers for titles like Tiger Woods 10 and Battlefield 2. Is it fair to remove a feature we’ve paid for?
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
They kind of are....It says on every game they can do it as soon as 30 days from launch. It's kind of shady, but there is really nothing we can do about it.
If less then certain amount of people are playing that game on average then by all means the servers can be shut down. But im not technical they should have a system where each game doesn't have it's it's own server just one big server so games can stay online forever.
i don't see the problem shutting down servers of games no one plays in order to support new ones....its not like its brand new thing that only ea dose
i think if they shutdown their servers they should at least have a way in place for people to run their own servers for the game.
What do you mean one big server ? Servers are build out of clusters if u have tons of games that get less than 1% attention on some monthly based stats u simply scale severs down (if possible) or shut em down to save money. I bet any of us would do the same thing if u would own the company, and u can compare it kinda to shutting down air conditioning unit in a room nobody stays in :>, on the other side thats why I never buy any sport games since they come every 12 months with new version