More reasons to love EA

[phantomdesign]

I'm not really one to jump on or push the "bashing bandwagon" but a certain news article caught my attention....

http://www.gametrailers.com/viewnews.php?id=4949

EA announced on Friday that it will discontinue online service for just about every non-2007 sports [and racing] games including '06 titles starting September 1. PS2, Xbox 360, PSP, and PC games will all be affected.

These are very recent titles . . . :O

 

[Qonfused]

So ****ing shitty.

 

[Kyorisu]

People play EA sports games...online? Oh god.

 

[-Psy-]

But for every EA game there is a similar-game that is superior in every single aspect.

There is no problem. Hurray!

 

[Iced_Eagle]

It's a matter of how many people play them online. If only like ten people play it online, then why keep paying for that server / bandwidth?

Sure it sucks for the few people playing on there, but EA has it's reasons, and that is to save money.

Personally, I never play EA sports online since a vast majority of the poeple who play them, in my experience, use a bunch of dirty tricks to win. It's really not fun playing them online.

 

[phantomdesign]

I've never met a EA sports title that I liked & online racing support has always been horrendous with every EA title. It's more a matter of principle; you buy a game and a 1-2 years later it loses it's online capacity?

 

[Gunner]

So what does this mean for the bf series>?

 

[Kyorisu]

So what does this mean for the bf series>?

BF isn't a part of their sports games lineup. They are canning support for Soccer, football, rugby, etc games. Racing I guess means NFS and the like. Can't imagine too many folks play NFS anyway.

 

[Gunner]

Ohh I thought I read 2007 non-sports games.

 

[Rapstah]

Ohh I thought I read 2007 non-sports games.

So did I. :|

 

[Ren.182]

They'd be stupid to can the BF2 etc support. Theres still thousands of active servers.

Sucks for those who still actually play these though!

 

[jimbo118]

nah the NON part is for the 2007, so all sports game from 2006 back, FIFA 2006 etc...

 

[Tyguy]

more like electronic farts...

thanks,k bye

 

[Munro]

Fine, they can refund me the full cost of my games then seeing how I can't play them.

 

[L3adCannon]

Aint all EA sports games exactly the same but the graphics?

lol@ EA raging the shit out of ppl.

 

[xcellerate]

lol@ EA raging the shit out of ppl.

What is this the my-g-0-t forum?

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Fine, they can refund me the full cost of my games then seeing how I can't play them.

Also all the xbox live users are gonna be mighty pissed and want their monies back.

 

[phantomdesign]

Aint all EA sports games exactly the same but the graphics?

lol@ EA raging the shit out of ppl.

I'm not "raged" by any means; I don't even own any of these games except a couple from their shitty racing series that people bought me for Xmas. What it all comes down to is EA is essentially "betraying" their customers.

This is what happens when marketing/accounting people take over; it was probably assumed that they could [1] save money by shutting down those servers and dropping support and [2] that removing support would ?motivate? (extort) people to buy their new titles.

Of all the "bashing bandwagons" I'd have to say EA is the most legitimate target of any bashing considering how they exploit their workers, exploit developers, and (as shown in this article) exploit their customers.

 

[CyberPitz]

Would this include games like "Need for speed: most wanted" perhaps?

If so, oh well on that. It's not like the multiplayer didn't actually suck anyway. I mean, you go online, it's laggy, glitchy, and just doesn't have any true fun....Oh well, this is going to piss off alot of people, I think.

 

[phantomdesign]

Would this include games like "Need for speed: most wanted" perhaps?

If so, oh well on that. It's not like the multiplayer didn't actually suck anyway. I mean, you go online, it's laggy, glitchy, and just doesn't have any true fun....Oh well, this is going to piss off alot of people, I think.

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In addition, EA will also drop support for older racing games starting November 1 including Burnout Revenge (Xbox, PlayStation 2), Need for Speed Underground 1 and 2 (PC, PlayStation 2), and Need for Speed Most Wanted (PSP, Xbox).

 

[Stingey]

EA has been doing this with random titles for years you know :/
They're well in their legal right to do so as well considering it's stated in the games TOS in the manuals (possibly the covers as well)