As we enter 2011, we’re beginning to see a pattern of video game digital distributions and stores like GameStop are becoming less pivotal as merchants. The road to digital distribution has started and we the customers have an efficient choice. Physical discs can slow down gaming. For one, with a physical disc you’ll constantly worry about; damaging your disc, losing your disc or the dreaded lending your disc. But with digital distribution, all that goes away.
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.
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.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
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.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
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.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"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.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
I could get down with digital distribution if the games were actually cheaper than on disk, but it's often the other way around. Releasing a game online cuts out so many middlemen/manufacturers that it really should be cheaper.
Not to mention that I could drive to a store, buy a game, and get back before that game would be 50% downloaded. And if my HDD becomes full, I have to delete a game and spend hours re-downloading it if I want to play it again. Digital is not all that convenient.
This of course means that people that don't want multiple discs on Xbox 360 can now avoid the disc entirely!
We are moving into the digital download age really quickly. Five years from now, media might basically be obsolete.
This is why I love Steam and why Valve's idea of digital content makes sense. Sure the digital price is the same because developers don't want it to compete with the retail version of the game since they've spent so much money shipping those out, but Valve holds a TON of sales.
More likely than not, you'll see sales all over the place. 50%, 75%, and even 90% off at times. PSN and the marketplace on the 360 rarely if ever have sales like this. It makes no sense to me. It's not like they're losing money.
uhhh no. We need faster internet and tb hdd's. it would be too much of a chore to download games with that amount of size. Download only is only good for pc right now.
Cool. Let's stay hour and hours downloading 12+ GB! No.