Valve pwns EA.

[hool10]

In a recent interview with cs-nation, the following Q&A happened:

CS-Nation: How are you going to address concerns that the inclusion of ads are a form of spyware? This allegation has already run rampant with games like Battlefield 2142, a game that also features in-game advertising.

Doug Lombardi: Valve places tremendous value in its customer relationships. We wouldn?t ship anything to customers that we would not run ourselves.

Simply put Valve cares about its customers rather than EA. 'Nuff said! :cheese:

 

[Asknoone]

Valve have always been in touch with the community - more so than pretty much any developer I know.

 

[CptStern]

EA cares about their customers ...wallets

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Haha!

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

EA cares about their customers ...wallets

EA care's about our money.

 

[Shippi]

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[Absinthe]

To be honest, that little snippet doesn't say much. I can't think of many right-minded PR guys admitting they couldn't give two shits about what their customers think. As much as I like Valve and their games, I still recognize that they are a commercial business.

Valve is still going to be implementing in-game advertising to CS 1.6 and that's pretty much final.

 

[Ravioli]

EA cares about their customers ...wallets

Haha nice one, is it ok if i put it in my sig?

 

[CyberPitz]

+1 for Valve!

 

[Ravioli]

sry for dubble post but the damn EDIT function doesnt function properly!!

what i ment to say was: "EDIT: the forum is so damn bugget that i cant even edit my profile"

 

[CyberPitz]

sry for dubble post but the damn EDIT function doesnt function properly!!

what i ment to say was: "EDIT: the forum is so damn bugget that i cant even edit my profile"

Good thing you didn't double post

 

[Ridge]

To be honest, that little snippet doesn't say much. I can't think of many right-minded PR guys admitting they couldn't give two shits about what their customers think.

Can someone find that quote from the EA Games PR guy who said that EA will go through with their plans regardless of their customer's thoughts, and that the people who report bugs in BF2 are the "minority" when its approximately 96% of their users.

I refuse to purchase another EA product until they turn their shit around, if ever.

 

[hool10]

Can someone find that quote from the EA Games PR guy who said that EA will go through with their plans regardless of their customer's thoughts, and that the people who report bugs in BF2 are the "minority" when its approximately 96% of their users.

I refuse to purchase another EA product until they turn their shit around, if ever.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/dice/dont-complain-to-dice-no-ones-listening-204607.php

It's not that we are necessarily very bad, we're not, but there is a very vocal minority on the forums who say 'EA is crap' and 'DICE are lazy', but they're all probably playing the game every day already anyway. We have minor problems, sometimes we have big problems, but minor problems are not what people should write about. Maybe they should write about why they're playing Battlefield every day. But that's human nature, I guess - you have a vocal minority and a silent majority.

Yes Valve is a company too. But how many bad games have they put out? Plus they truly care about us.

 

[Ridge]

Ever since the release of BF2, people bitched and pissed and moaned about the good old days where EA would release new maps with every patch.

It took almost a half dozen patches for them to give us one map which is basically Karkand grafted onto the edge of one of the swamp maps...

 

[<RJMC>]

and why is this a pwn?

problably EA wouldnt care

 

[Raziaar]

All that says is that they wouldn't ship out anything they wouldn't run. Who knows if they're willing to run games with advertising in it? WHO KNOWS!? :x

 

[Ridge]

Owned

v. To dominate other person or thing so completely as to humiliate them.

Sounds like what would happen if EA's customer service went up against Valve's...

 

[Krynn72]

Sounds like what would happen if EA's customer service went up against Valve's...

If EA's profits went up against Valves... it would be EA pwning Valve.

Yeah they might not give a damn about their customers... but people still buy all their shit, so it doesnt matter. They will always come out on top.

 

[Ridge]

If it were happiness per capita, Valve by a longshot

 

[nutcrackr]

The whole bf2142 spyware rumor was set in motion by a few idiots who misinterpreted a simple card and made up pretty much what they wanted. Numerous more idiots then read this and believed it. If there were fewer idiots around there wouldn't have been any spyware rumors.

 

[Darkwolf]

EA DOESN'T care. That is the point they've been trying to make.

 

[nutcrackr]

Well I must say they are doing a shit job trying to make it.

edit: fixed

 

[Darkwolf]

Woops, fixed.

 

[Stigmata]

If it were happiness per capita, Valve by a longshot

You have obviously never met any of the millions of sports-fan gamers. Some of them truly believe that EA "makes the best games". Granted, none of them are particularly intelligent, but I hold that that plays right into EA's hands... somehow.

 

[Solaris]

Turns out Valve are just as bad.
Check the thread in general games.

They're bringing in ads too.

 

[Lucid]

If Valve listened to their customers, they wouldn't put ads in the game. :|

 

[Zeus]

Ever since the release of BF2, people bitched and pissed and moaned about the good old days where EA would release new maps with every patch.

It took almost a half dozen patches for them to give us one map which is basically Karkand grafted onto the edge of one of the swamp maps...

Yeah that was annoying, but the main reason I'm done buying EA's games is due to the fact that it took them several patches to even get BF2 working on my computer, I didn't buy any BF2 booster packs or BF2142 because of the crap way they treat their customers and their "release now, fix later" attitude.

 

[-Psy-]

They're bringing in ads too.

Thanks for explaining the whole point of this thread.

 

[hool10]

Yes Valve is bringing in ads but they won't be everywhere. In fact Dust_2 has one near a bomb site since.......ever. They also display them when that loading bar comes up. EA puts their ads everywhere and puts spyware on your computer. Also if I remember correctly, there was a hotfix for some major bugs at the release of BF2.

 

[PoeticRocker]

EA Link is such crap.

I had such a hard time trying to buy and download armored fury for bf2.

I want to delete it, but I dont know if it would delete the expansion pack as well...

 

[CyberPitz]

Ads really don't don't bother me...it was that little card that was put in the 2142 box. Saying, this will install a third party program on your computer. Don't like it? Don't install 2142.

I mean, shit..that's what truely pisses me off...

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

It would be great if Valve bought Dice, so that way the quality of their games would be better & more delays to make it perfect...oh wait EA bought & owns the rights of Dice. D:
*snickers at EA with hate*