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| EA extorts Battlefield 2 players | | Posted on Tuesday, November 29 @ 18:25:16 EST by M0nKeY |  The recent release of battlefield 2: special forces further proves that electronic arts is a piece of shit company that does not deserve your business. In fact pirating games distributed by EA may be a good idea. Second only to mailing zip lock bags of human waste to their corporate headquarters.
Anyone who plays the game battlefield 2 knows that there a still many bugs surrounding the game and only a limited number of MP maps. Yet EA and DICE felt the need to release an expansion that can be purchased directly from them for $29.99 or from a viariety of retailers in the $20-30 price range. The catch is if you don't buy the software you still have to play online against players who are allowed to use new weapons from the expansion pack including things like flash bangs and a more varied array of weapons. Giving some players a major advantage over others.
This is a perfect example of a company not giving a shit about the people who pay their salaries. It sets a horrible example for the future of online gaming where companies can diminish your ability to compete in a game you already purchased.
There are examples of this situation in the past but they seem to have remained limited to MMORPGs where the player could simply stop paying a monthly fee if they chose not to participate. A different type of nerfing example would be the drastic changes being made to star wars galaxies to prepare for an influx of console gamers. This renders much of the work players put into building up high level Jedi characters useless. The difference here is BF2 was a one time purchase and has player run game servers. Players who purchased the game were not informed that they would soon be playing an online game against people with different abilities and weapons with no recourse except to give the company more money.
Sadly there are a large number of players out there who will continue to hand their money over to companies like this, allowing them to further abuse the gaming community.
Somewhat related is a supposed player "strike" planned by call of duty 2 players over their disapproval on lack of information in regards to the direction of online play. It probably wont do shit, but is worth noting.
So a big fuck you to EA and any moron who sees nothing wrong with this. I'd rather eat goat diarrhea from a rusty steel bowl than give you another cent.
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by flaming_ass_packet on Thursday, December 01 @ 17:48:44 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | dude, shut the fuck up.
SF is a great expantion and what do we do when people produce good games and shit? thats right, WE BUY THEM ANYWAYS. i do not mind paying for the expantion because ITS A GOOD FUCKING EXPANTION TO A GREAT FUCKING GAME. if you really want flashbang but are to jewish to shell out the 25$ then you can download the pirate version and install it even thoe you dont have a valid online key. besides, im sick of those fucking ass hat super one sided bullshit maps that i have been playing over and over again like that one time i killed yoru mom. new maps, new shit, well worth 25$, big fucking deal that they did allitle corporate tactics on selling it.
cry me a fucking river monkey... cry me a river. |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by flaming_ass_packet on Thursday, December 01 @ 17:54:33 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | remember now, we support good shit, not encourage piracy on a expantion thats well worth the money. |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by D (lasergrenades@bucketofllamas.com) on Friday, December 02 @ 04:36:00 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | The problem isn't that they're released expansion packs, but that EA's coders learnt all their fucking C++ and Pythonscript language skills from spending 10 minutes on internet tutorials, and as such, EVERY FUCKING GAME THEY RELEASE IS BUGGY AS FUCK.
Instead of releasing an expansion pack that doesn't even fix the bugs, EA should instead recruit some decent programmers, as they currently rank up there with such greats as DooM mapper george "King REoL" fiffy and JeffK. |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by Mean_MOFO on Friday, December 02 @ 09:26:38 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I remember fucking every single developer's mother while they were doing this expansion. Does it show their anger? Cos fuck man, they all knew I was fucking their mothers. |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by Ny24 on Friday, December 02 @ 11:39:49 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | yeah. WOO and YAY to big companies.
But lets be honest. Everyone already knew, that EA is big shit. |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by fstick on Friday, December 02 @ 21:39:03 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | BF2 just got worse (and it sucked a good ammount of rooster to begin with). |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by flaming_ass_packet on Sunday, December 04 @ 15:17:16 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | ok well then by that logic allmost every FPS game sucks ass with the exception of return to castle wolfenstien. |
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by flaming_ass_packet on Thursday, December 08 @ 12:06:47 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | OK EVERYBODY LISTEN UP. I RETRACT EVERYTHING GOOD I HAVE SAID ABOUT THE SF EXPANTION. EA IS A FLAMING PILE OF DRAGONS SHIT AND YOU CANT GET THE UNLOCKS FOR REGULAR BF2 IF YOU DONT HAVE A VALID SF KEY. FUCK EA. I AM SORRY MONKEY, YOU ARE MY OVERLORD LEADER AND MASTER. THEY SHOULD HAVE WORKED ON SHIT LIKE NOT HAVING TO PULL THE PLUG ON YORU COMPUTER WHEN YOU LOG ON AND YOU FORGOT TO OPEN THE PORT THE FUCKING LOG IN SERVER USES AND THE FUCKING SCREEN JUST HANGS THERE FOREVER (LITERALLY) AND YOU CANT ALT+TAB, CTRL+ALT+DEL OR ALT+F4 OUT OF IT, YOU CAN DO A HALF ASS ALT+TAB ONLY IF YOU HAVE ANY MAXIMIZED APPLICATION/WINDOW IN THE BACKGROUND AND IT WILL BARELY LET YOU SEE THE START MENU AND LET YOU HAVE ASS RIGHT CLICK ON THE BF2 TAB AND SELECT CLOSE, IF YOUR LUCKY. OMFG IM IN CAPS LOCK BECAUSE YOU DONT KNWO HOW GAY THAT SHIT IS, ITS HAPPEND TO ME COUNTLESS AMMOUNTS OF TIMES AND EA JUST WONT FIX IT. |
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Re: EA extorts Battlefield 2 players (Score: 1)
by Kalafan on Monday, April 24 @ 17:05:32 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Meh, are they ever going to be done patching this series? I bet you someday it'll take the world record for most developer-patched game in history, way this shit's going. What's that, they're working on BF2142 now? Maybe that one'll take the record. It still doesn't hide the fact that even one of EA's MOST POPULAR PC games is unfinished and bug-ridden, just like all of their obscure and SERIOUSLY crappy titles. |
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