Again.. FUCK EA GAME'S

[TheWheelman]

There is a post on the archive's here about EA Games and there nonstop bullshit. They ruin all of there games by lies, and they spam the hell out of you.. and people dont read the back of the manuals, and it has nothing on the Rule's (Example BF2), and I was "Stat-Padding" and they banned me. I made another account, got an update (:banghead: FUCKING DUMB MOVE), and it doesnt work! THEY HAVENT HELPED ME!!

So, EA Games is a bunch of blah blah pussy sucking fuck-headded cunts. So Im not buying any more of there fucking games, so they can go out of business. Opinions?

[Turbocharger]

Well, tell us what kind of stat padding you were doing.

[usefulidiot316]

There is a post on the archive's here about EA Games and there nonstop bullshit. They ruin all of there games by lies, and they spam the hell out of you.. and people dont read the back of the manuals, and it has nothing on the Rule's (Example BF2), and I was "Stat-Padding" and they banned me. I made another account, got an update (:banghead: FUCKING DUMB MOVE), and it doesnt work! THEY HAVENT HELPED ME!!

So, EA Games is a bunch of blah blah pussy sucking fuck-headded cunts. So Im not buying any more of there fucking games, so they can go out of business. Opinions?

I've put a bunch of companies out of business by not buying their products. Ever wander why the brought back classic coke? I say more power to you. Who needs Crysis, Spore, BattleField games, or any football games at all?

All kidding aside, I agree with you. I hate EA, but there are a lot of reasons for it.

[Meth]

Their games are great:)

[Molson]

what is stat padding ?

[TriggerOfDemise]

below are some of the main reasons why you're not alone when it comes to hating EA.

EA is often criticized for buying smaller development studios primarily for their intellectual property assets, and then making the developers produce run-of-the-mill games on these same franchises. For example, Origin produced Ultima VIII: Pagan and Ultima IX: Ascension (extremely rushed out) under EA's ownership, and these two are considered by many as not up to the standard of the rest of the series, being aimed at lowest common denominator audience. Productions from EA owned studios as of late have generally not been known for their originality.

EA is also criticized for shutting down its acquired studios after a poorly performing game. Many see EA's control and direction as being primarily responsible for the game's failure rather than the studio. Magic Carpet 2 was rushed to completion over the objections of designer Peter Molyneux and it shipped during the holiday season with several major bugs. Studios such as Origin, Westwood Studios, and Bullfrog had previously produced games attracting a significant fanbase, and when they were closed down many top designers and programmers refused to stay with EA and formed rival studios. EA has also received harsh fire from labour groups for their dismissals of large groups of employees during the closure of a studio (see below). Such was the case with the game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

EA is also notorious for the practice of rushing out products, setting extremely short deadlines and emphasizing good graphics to compensate for the lack of gameplay aspects originally intended by many developers, not implemented due to lack of time. After releasing many semi-finished products, the lack of support is notable in many games, assured by the fact that EA declared openly that they would no longer support relatively new but still buggy titles, like Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Underground I and some of the latest Command and Conquer games.

Electronic Arts announced it would not support the Sega Dreamcast unless it sold 1 million units. When this happened within a record 90 days, EA went back on their word and declined to support the Dreamcast in favour of Sony's PlayStation 2.

EA has also been criticized for other aggressive business methods like the acquisition of 19.9 percent of shares of their competitor Ubisoft in what was called a "hostile act" by Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot[3].

[TheScarecrow]

what is stat padding ?http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stat+padding

man urbandictionary kicks ass at slang.

[Molson]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stat+padding

man urbandictionary kicks ass at slang.

hehe i like the end

mikerotch: dude just keep tossing nades so i can get more resupply points. i need 6 more for veteran resupply.
ipfreely: ok! then u can help me get my expert heal badge!

>>BANNING!!! mikerotch REASON: STAT PADDING!!!
>>BANNING!!! ipfreely REASON: STAT PADDING!!!

[Teh Gir]

yeah this is what i think of EA:

small game developer "hey lets make an original game that everyone will like"

EA "what, youre making a non rushed, good game??? WTF, buys company"

EA "lets make the same game, but rushing it out, spam it with ea ads and make it 100% shittier"

[OLIAX]

so you hate EA because they banned you for cheating online?

[wrathchild]

Command and Conquer: Generals was good.

[YorkshireMan]

even game companies hate eA games. In company of hereos ,on the jeeps in says EA suxs or something to that effect.

[evilmittens]

There is a post on the archive's here about EA Games and there nonstop bullshit. They ruin all of there games by lies, and they spam the hell out of you.. and people dont read the back of the manuals, and it has nothing on the Rule's (Example BF2), and I was "Stat-Padding" and they banned me. I made another account, got an update (:banghead: FUCKING DUMB MOVE), and it doesnt work! THEY HAVENT HELPED ME!!

So, EA Games is a bunch of blah blah pussy sucking fuck-headded cunts. So Im not buying any more of there fucking games, so they can go out of business. Opinions?

Umm, yeah, EA sucks, but stat-padding is listed as a bannable/reset stats offense in their Terms of Service.

[rand0m]

Of course EA are scum. welcome to the commercial market.

[JLC]

Nothing wrong with EA for me, they reply to any emails I send for help, and they've given me refunds for a faulty disk twice. Fifa 07 rules, but pro evo 6 will probably be better.

Stop whining.

[PsiRedEye22]

Its hard to sympathize with a douchebag stat padder in the first place, and C&C3 will be great.

[a7x1337]

i hate ea because they bought the nfl license because they had the inferior game.

i still play 2k5.

[rand0m]

the most annoying thing about EA, is that they get games with lots of potential, but do the bare minimum about it.

C&C3 is apparently good though ...

however EA will probably stop supporting it after a few years

[Cee]

Lets see what EA did...

#1 Killed Westwood studios
#2 Acquired the dudes who made Desert Combat mod for BF1942, so they can work on BF2. Fired them right before BF2 went gold and killed their gaming studio.
#3 Making rushed buggy games and then correcting after with countless patches.
#4 Reusing games and just replacing them with new skins and some models and pack it together for $50.

If you guys think BF2142 is anything new, its not. You guys are being played.

Just like what they did when they released BF Vietnam.

Command and Conquer: Generals was good.

Holy shit go hang yourself now.

[doorknobopener]

I liked the Godfather but the controls were stupid. The Sims are pretty good too

[MegaSuperdude]

EA should release their sequels as the first game, since any semi-decent selling game will get a sequel, in about 9 months. So the sequel should be the first game.

[Molson]

even game companies hate eA games. In company of hereos ,on the jeeps in says EA suxs or something to that effect.

really.. im going to check that out

[Nocturnal]

What? I got banned for cheating?

How dare they. :rollseyes

[JesusTheJedi]

In Company of Heroes, the jeeps have leet speak on their liscense plates, and they say: 3A 5UX5

I lol'd.

Edit - Fuck, someone beat me to it...

[STreCH]

i could care less if you stop buying there games. you cheated and you definetly deserve what you got. and ea games rules they come out with awesome games all the time that probably wouldnt be so awesoem if they hadnt bought the company or whatever. its a win win situation so stop complaining.

[Liberator13]

yeah this is what i think of EA:

small game developer "hey lets make an original game that everyone will like"

EA "what, youre making a non rushed, good game??? WTF, buys company"

EA "lets make the same game, but rushing it out, spam it with ea ads and make it 100% shittier"

QFT. Thats pretty much how it is.

[skater910]

Holy shit! I'm going to zoom in on CoH jeeps as soon as I finish my rant.

Most, if not all, EA games are made by non-EA studios. Examples:

Battlefield series - Dice. Their stock was almost completely bought out by EA and now they are being purchased for about $20 million. Monopolizing stock and buying out is like EA's engagement and marriage.

Command and Conquer - Westwood. This one pissed me off the most. Unlike most people I was an avid player of C&C: Renegade. EA stopped supporting the game and left it at its fifth or so patch and turned control of the forums to a leading Renegade community member. They offered their hosting, but it would often take nosedives (people often muttered OMG WOL SUX IM USEING GAMESPAI). The game need a patch badly; people used sniper rifles to hit tanks, doing no damage but getting MANY points. People would sit in the base with an MRLS shooting backwards and hit the other base from the safety of their base, a phenomenon called B2B, or base-to-base. On one level you could take control of the infantry tunnel system and hit the refinery with a Nuclear Strike/Ion Cannon Beacon, doing about one-third to one-half damage. Cheating was rampant, with cheats such as big head mod (easy headshots, for obvious reasons) and Final Renegade (multi-cheat with symptoms like way too much damage, but using certain rockets could exploit a flaw and crash their game). The community actually made their own anti-cheat, Renguard, and patch, Core Patch 1 or CP1, out of their free time. Renegade 2 got cancelled when EA took over Westwood and stopped making patches.

A little known one, but Half-life 2 - Valve. They got a deal with the Game of the Year versions and every subsequent game. They got into a fight with their old packager and decided to use EA for distribution in stores.

Sims series and other Will Wright games - Maxis.

I will finish with this quote:
"Warcraft is like teh gay and stuff, don't get me wrong. Like [snicker] orcs and stuff like y'know and like bows and arrows and dragons and some magic and stuff is pretty much for like guys that like y'know never gonna have sex and stuff. I have to respect Blizzard cause like, least they care somewhat somewhat, y'know? Got like 15 patches, and at least they care about their stuff... Guess what I'm saying is that like... EA sucks my balls... Think that's like what I'm saying, pretty much... Like I got this one ball here, E- E sucks this ball here, and then the A- the A sucks my other ball here, and so the E and the A are just sucking both my balls."
- Jeremy, aka t3h_pwnerer

[NYG 5]

ea STILL has the inferior nfl game:preachon:

[Molson]

I will finish with this quote:
"Warcraft is like teh gay and stuff, don't get me wrong. Like [snicker] orcs and stuff like y'know and like bows and arrows and dragons and some magic and stuff is pretty much for like guys that like y'know never gonna have sex and stuff. I have to respect Blizzard cause like, least they care somewhat somewhat, y'know? Got like 15 patches, and at least they care about their stuff... Guess what I'm saying is that like... EA sucks my balls... Think that's like what I'm saying, pretty much... Like I got this one ball here, E- E sucks this ball here, and then the A- the A sucks my other ball here, and so the E and the A are just sucking both my balls."
- Jeremy, aka t3h_pwnerer

dude, where do you live?

[a7x1337]

ea STILL has the inferior nfl game:preachon:
this dude knows his stuff

[rand0m]

skater910 couldnt have put a better quote down myself

[The-Ejd]

It's ironic they just straight off banned you being their catchphrase is "EA GAMES. . . challenge everything."

[Smoked86]

dude cee your crazy, generals was awesome. and still is. but ea is dumb for doing many things. i'd say they only put a lot of effort into games they know are popular and are going to sell good. but them buying up everything they like is pretty stupid.

[idontknow]

boycott them, if you dont like them

[FsB_BeN]

LOL how about making video games a little less important in ur life?

[J.T.]

below are some of the main reasons why you're not alone when it comes to hating EA.

Totally agree Trigger!

Cnc had no balance, was unfinished, no support at ALL. They let the community balance the patch but didn't release it PURPOSLY because they had new games coming out. They did this for all games all the way back to cnc Generals on thru LOTR.

I stopped buying their games. However, I think they've gotten better since then. I MAY buy Tiberian because they are learning their lesson.

[usefulidiot316]

LOL how about making video games a little less important in ur life?BLASPHEMY

10 hell maries

[TriggerOfDemise]

ANOTHER REASON TO HATE EA: they fucking charge $2.00 for a tutorial they should have included in the game!!!

read: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/04/eas-premium-ripoff/

[doorknobopener]

It's ironic they just straight off banned you being their catchphrase is "EA GAMES. . . challenge everything."
He challenged them... and then he lost

[TriggerOfDemise]

im not done with this thread yet... here's more EA hate: (scroll down to see videos of all of the funny bugs EA left in NBA LIVE. )

source:http://www.nbalive.org/letter.htm

NBA LIVE COMMUNITY LETTER TO EA

As long time NBA Live fans, some of us even from when EA was putting "vs." in their titles, we have been around the block with EA many times. Most of us have gone beyond mere fans into "fanatics" spending countless man-hours on fan sites or making modifications or patches for the games. Even those of us who have not, have spent as many hours involving ourselves in an ever expanding community of other NBA Live fans. If anyone deserves the tag "hardcore fan" it's us. We have stuck by EA and NBA Live in the face of serious competition from the 2K series.

For us however, NBA Live 07 is the final straw. The one that broke the camel's back. The spark that set the field ablaze. Until this release we overlooked any flaws in the game, ones that some of us considered major even if others of us considered them minor. But this release has ignited feelings that EA doesn't care about its fans, which is the reason we are writing today.

Whether EA does or does not care about its fans, the bigger issue is perception, and the image that EA presents is that they don't care. Every year, we as a community submit one or more wishlists, often with the same wishes from year to year. A lack of implementation of the wishes sows seeds of belief that EA isn't paying attention. When EA releases a game in which the CPU won't even use its bench, and overrides user substitutions, it sows seeds that EA doesn't care and just wanted to cash in. When major online media do not recieve review copies, it leads to the belief that EA knew the product was defective but proceeded anyway. When community members contact EA and receive a response that seems to imply EA isn't too interested in fixing the problems, and telling us to wait until the next game, it does quite a bit of harm to our faith in the company.

While we'd love a patch to fix the major issues with the game, that is not the major focus of our letter, as we have a patch petition for that. Our focus is not simply on this release, but a sense that we also see in other EA-related communities whether it's the NFL gaming community or the people who play Battlefield 2.

At one time, EA was producing the best titles money could buy and one had little reason to look elsewhere. Now gamers have a sense that if you want the best, it's not EA. Whether it's looking at the NBA 2K series for our basketball game fix, users leaving Battlefield 2 because they feel the problems will never be addressed, or former FIFA players moving onto Pro Evolution/Winning Eleven, it's a sense that we are all sharing. We look at NBA Live over the last few years and we see the same basic game being re-released with new fancy features. The same elemental problems from the last few years are still there, some have been tweaked but the overall issues still exist. While there are plenty of new features, it gives the impression that EA is saying in response to the lingering issues "yeah, well, HEY! Look at this!" Be it All-Star Weekend (a long time wish that EA has in fact fulfilled), superstar moves or dynasty additions. While those additions are nice to have, it is piling on a base that cannot support it. Instead of addressing the underlying fractures, EA is just constructing a new structure on the old crumbling foundation.

As alluded to earlier, it's not just the practice of EA's actions as much as the perception. EA is often criticized for rushing out products, going back on its word and ignoring fans. While EA may or may not be doing that, when one hears these things, it's easy to fit what the company is doing into that mold. It doesn't help when we look at other communities, where the game developers openly participate on the forums and seem to be actively involved in the community. While EA has made overtures to the NBA Live community over the years, whether it was hiring Tim, holding Community Summit/Days, participating in interviews or sharing screenshots and videos, it still seems like EA is distant and uninvolved in the community. Even if we have an inkling EA is reading the forums daily, the impression is still there that they aren't paying attention at all. Some of us are looking for little more than EA explaining why they did or didn't do something in the game, for acknowledgement of issues or ideas presented, for assistance in greater understanding of the game.

When we find major issues in the game and hear nothing from EA. When we take the steps to contact EA and get a response that seems to do more to harm our opinion than satisfy us. And when we're told we shouldn't share what EA has told us. It all serves to reinforce our negative perceptions. If this continues it seems inevitable that more and more players will eventually give up on NBA Live.

The question that we're increasingly asking ourselves becomes, while we're willing to put in the effort to improve the game, is EA?

Signed,
Ben Bailey (nbalive.org founder/webmaster, fmr. Patchmaker, fmr. NLSC Forum moderator, community member 1998-present)
David Wells (Community entrepreneur, Patchmaker, fmr. nbalive.org webmaster, community member 1996-present)
Andreas Dahl (NLSC Team Member, Patchmaker, NLSC Forum Moderator, community member 2002-present)
Matthew Damian (NLSC Features Editor, NLSC Forum Moderator, fmr. NLSC webmaster, community member 1998-present)
Tony Huml (fmr. Patchmaker, nbalive.org founder, community member 1999-present)
Steve Miller (fmr. Patchmaker, fmr. nbalive.org webmaster, fmr. NLSC Forum and nbalive.org forum moderator, community member 2001-2004)
Jae Hatton (NLSC Team Member, NLSC Forum Moderator, community member 1999-present)
Yohance Bailey (NLSC Team Member, NLSC Fourm Moderator, fmr. Patchmaker, community member 2000-present)
Nick Barnshaw (Community member 2001-present, fmr. Patchmaker, fmr. nbalive.org forum moderator)
Kevin Choi (Patchmaker, fmr. nbalive.org Patching Director, nbalive.org forum moderator, community member 2003-present)
Cameron Forbes (NLSC Team Member, NLSC Forum Moderator, community member 2003-present)
Donatello (NLSC Team Member, NLSC Forum Moderator, community member 2004-present)
Alexboom (Patchmaker, community member 2003-present)
Joseph Papio (Community member 2001-present)
Joachim Lapiak (Community member 2003-present)
Sagar Sengupta (Community member 2003-present)
Tuomas/Finnboy (NLSC Team Member, Patchmaker, community member 2003-present)

ADDENDUM: On the NLSC Forum (largest NBA Live Community Forum) there have been petitions started for a patch for the PC version (http://www.nbaliveforums.com/ftopic42262.php) and bringing the 2K series to the PC (http://www.nbaliveforums.com/ftopic41939.php)

Community members have also been compiling videos of some bugs some of which can be found on YouTube, here is a sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvnv4rCtm2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCif0ZGH8Nc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rQaoNHu0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGEJUww9ck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_N9jwmeA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rTthKlwIAo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFqTNcVPktc

October 3, 2006

[Molson]

im indifferent about EA. i just know that the NHL series sucks, its the same game repackaged each year.

[rand0m]

TriggerOfDemise good post, its nice to know its nice to know people are doing things about it.