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At 7/16/11 12:33 PM, naronic wrote: [cough]
erm...

pc gaming ftw

Mind me asking how red dead redemption is? I might buy it on a computer if it's good.

At 7/17/11 03:25 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 7/17/11 02:47 PM, idiot-monarch wrote:

At 7/16/11 02:01 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 7/16/11 01:50 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: They're shooting themselves in the foot, because they might as well stop selling the games if they were virtually MADE for multiplayer.

None of the games EA stopped the server for are online only.

Because Army of Two is so fun to play alone.

That's just one of the games, and I never played it online. I played co-op locally. How many people actually play that game now anyway? Army of Two 2 is out and no one even plays that.

Well not everyone is you.

Anyway, I'm not totally against taking down servers for titles that have been sitting in the bargain bin for years, but they should add a big "NO ONLINE PLAY" sticker on the cover or something. If there is anyone out there who decides to buy Skate or Army of Two nowadays, to put the disc in and see that there is no multiplayer anymore is really fucking lame.

No one plays those games anymore, so I don't see he problem.

It's not so much the games, but the principle of doing it for such recent ones. Not even two years and you're already closing up shop? That's quite silly, if you ask me, but I know how much EA hates the used game market.

At 7/18/11 02:23 AM, Jolly wrote:

At 7/16/11 03:50 AM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: I like how they're trying as hard as possible to make people hate them.

But it's okay that he does because EA really does suck.

1. They take a series and completely ruin it.
2. They're having there games removed from steam so people will use there piece of shit steam alternative
3. Origin apparently deletes your games if you don't log on for 24 hours

LOL. 24 months, not 24 hours (which is still silly, but 24 hours would be INSANE).

The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy. The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. But as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles below a point -- fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles -- where it's feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99% of customers playing our more popular games. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage.

It's understandable, why keep servers running when they're basically ghost towns?

Besides, if there was a huge community stil backing it, then there'd be ways to get onto private servers, this has always been the case.

I do not like EA, but for the right reasons, this is not a reason to dislike them.

THIS is EXACTLY why gamers want server based multiplayer.

At 7/18/11 01:09 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 7/18/11 02:23 AM, Jolly wrote: 3. Origin apparently deletes your games if you don't log on for 24 months
4. Origin only lets you download your games in the first year you buy them, afterwards you have to purchase the game again.

Wow, that's fucked up. To think, I was contemplating buying ME3 on Origin.

Simply download your game within a year after buying it and log into Origin once every 2 years.

Oh my god, that's so fucking ridiculous. I can't believe they would do that!

To be honest, shutting down the online of any outdated sports game is reasonable - but not if they're 2010 games, because those games are still kind of new.

Why don't they shut down any pre-2009 sports games? Have they already done that?

At 7/18/11 01:46 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: a game I already legally purchased

What's legal is whatever's written in Origin's Terms of Use.

"purchase again"

Yup, totally justifiable.

Who's going to wait a year to install a game they purchased anyway? There's obviously some justified reason for why they have these terms.

At 7/18/11 02:32 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 7/18/11 01:46 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: a game I already legally purchased

What's legal is whatever's written in Origin's Terms of Use.

I agree with RWG (oh wow), the Terms of Use are fucking stupid then.

"purchase again"

Yup, totally justifiable.

Who's going to wait a year to install a game they purchased anyway? There's obviously some justified reason for why they have these terms.

There really isn't. Why doesn't Steam have these terms, I wonder? Because they have confidence in their service and don't need a way to FORCE people to log in and install the games, and if they don't, hey, awesome, let's charge them for them again.

I don't see why people DEFEND stuff like this. Yeah, okay, 2 years is a long time, but why the fuck is it there in the first place? How is it helping you, as a customer?

Wow... BF: 2?

Understand some of the smaller PSP games, but they've knocked out some serious additions.

At 7/17/11 03:25 PM, Makeshift wrote: That's just one of the games, and I never played it online. I played co-op locally. How many people actually play that game now anyway? Army of Two 2 is out and no one even plays that.

I'll be honest, I still play Army of Two from time to time. I prefer the first to the sequel for a few reasons, mainly because the actual gameplay in the second feels a little bland, there's not enough moments where you're back to back with your partner, parachuting, etc. It's just sort of "shoot this guy. K. Shoot that guy. K. Shoot this one. Oh, move around to the back, and shoot this one."

I mean, Army of Two wasn't my favorite game, but it will be kind of annoying to know that I can only really split screen it from now on, if I don't want to play with the AI. Which, as anyone that has ever played a video game before knows, is one of the worst teammates you could ever have.

EA's Origin is stupid because someone on the internet told me a rumour about it.

http://www.platformnation.com/2011/07/17 /eas-origin-may-delete-your-games-after-
inactivity/