Either Digital Foundry's PlayStation 3 debugging station is in desperate need of a new hard drive or else Mass Effect 2 can take anything up to 52 minutes to install for a relatively paltry 4272MB of data, not including the additional downloaded DLC.
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.
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.
lol wut
That's a long ass install if you have a near full HDD but is this install mandatory?
I will be installing no matter what and I personally don't care if it took 2 hours to install even. Still I gotta recognize this is a long install and a weird one at that (with the amount ofavailable space on HDD affecting install times).
This and LBP2 getting straight 10s is a win for gaming. Keep on truckin' PS3.
This is not up for discussion.. if the game desires a mandatory install.. then so be it.
52 minutes for just over 4.2 Gig doesn't seem right to me. The install for GT5 was double (or more) and it installed in less time than that.
I don't care about mandatory installs, as they are only a one off and make the game run better. Its not hard to find something to do while games install. (make a cuppa, sandwich, have a smoke, read manual, etc).
you'd think they would have known the more stuff you have on any HDD the longer it takes to install.