Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:58:
You're throwing out a conspiracy theory here that does not add up.

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 17:00:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:42:

Sigh. In the old days the trolls were at least funny.

Back when they had phantom online phds?

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:35:
But why do you think they spend so much money advertising? Why does Hollywood? Why does P&G spend more money advertising Pampers than some companies have in GDP?

Because advertising works.

nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:41:

Quite a few people on Origin's forum are also reporting that you'll get to 5 mins left in the queue, then it resets and suddenly you're looking at 180-300 mins again.

"Just fuckin with ya! You still got a couple more hours!"

ASeven wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:52:
I don't know, Blue lately has been attracting a lot of trolls and idiots that often attack Blue's regulars. I guess that is a sign we're doing something good.

Wallshadows wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:07:
Not sure if it's original or not and has been posted already but this showed up on my facebook feed from a friend with the added message that it's an 18 hour wait to reach their support line.

How many more bridges can EA burn this week? Stay tuned!

ASeven wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:19:
Found a pic of the next SimCity game that Maxis has been secretly developing.

http://i.imgur.com/53D6SxO.jpg

Ratty wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:17:
I know everyone loves Dishonored

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:40:
But yeah, every EA game needs to move 3-5 million units. And I can tell you that terrifies them (it does every publisher) and that they're desperately trying to find a way to change that (as is every publisher.)

SimplyMonk wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:11:
EA CTO talks about the "Big Data" that their online games are generating and what they are doing with it. More of an architecture discussion for handling big data sets than anything else, but thought that some here might find it interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK_PXlbvOfM

netnerd85 wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:27:
Thief Youtube Coverage Trailer
"Dis is teef"

Sorry, what? What is teef?

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:02:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:59:
Come on, they made DE:HR and it was awesome. Give them a little faith.

Creston

You mean like the boss fights?

No. Faith is earned.

Slashman wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 08:56:

Dmitri_M wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 08:18:
Galciv 2 was good and I hope they're working on a follow up.

GalCiv was boring as heck to me. I just don't get the way people view it as some kind of 4x second coming.

It had an entire ship design section with a gajillion components that did not matter. All that mattered was laser 1, laser 2, shield 1, shield 2.

The research tree was boring and about the only thing I can get from people about it was that the AI was impressive.

Topevoli wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:45:
If you load money onto a prepaid credit card it is not backed by the FDIC.

Also laws are great when the offenders are held accountable. These same banks that had to adhere to laws are also constantly lobbying to change them in their favor.

I'm not (trying) to troll, I am merely stating that this guy is no less credible than the average credit issuing bank.

In fact, he actually has to be accountable for his actions (or lack of action) as proven by his current predicament.

Bhruic wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:46:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:09:
Obviously I see the differences between Arma3 and WarZ, but I still would much rather Steam not allow Alphas on there.

They don't really have a choice. They want to alpha test it, but they have gone the "integrated Steamworks" approach. So there's no real way to get it tested without going through Steam. And since Valve wants companies to use Steamworks (more money for them), they aren't likely to throw anything in the way of companies going this route.