Acleacius wrote on Aug 7, 2011, 00:30:
It's really hard to believe some are supporting ea, look how they handled battlefield and battlefield 2. The support from them and their inability or refusal to address the cheating, speaks volumes about ea.
Perhaps EA is actually focused on marketing to the cheaters and hackers? I'm not a cheater or hacker, and perhaps your encounting problems with EA as well because you aren't one either. Hackers don't worry about a game being unstable because they simply reverse engineer it and fix the game themselves.
Acleacius wrote on Aug 7, 2011, 00:30:
Valve/Steam does not have those issues, ea doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as *Steam! If your supporting ea your either not paying attention to history or ignoring history. Well I guess ea could be paying you to be here saying nice things about them.
But, nobody really is saying anything nice about EA...all they are are doing is saying bad things about Steam. Do you honestly think there is even one good thing in what EA is doing? They are not only hurting gamers and developers, but also hurting themselves...it is a total lose-lose situation. Is EA really that stupid?
But, yeah...I agree with you...some gamers actually are supporting EA. But, I would bet that those same gamers are the ones that complain about Steam not allowing them to use executables that are different from what everyone else is using and thus not allowing them to use their hacked programs. The ones that complain that the Valve Anti-Cheat system is taking pictures of their gaming screen and not allowing them to play games that they purchased simply because they have replaced the graphics textures with see-through textures or running the graphics card in debug mode.
Perhaps EA's real agenda is hidden. Maybe their marketing is designed to get all the cheaters and hackers to join Origin and then when everything settles down they will provide the list to Interpol as suspected online terrorists. I doubt that anyone can make any sense about what EA is doing. All we can tell is that EA doesn't want to sell games through Steam and instead want to sell their own Origin system. And, from their tactics it seems likely that everyone that joins Origin will...in the near future...have to pay for the service in some way or another.
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