Recent content by Rachmaninov

The vocal minority buying their games and then bitching about it actually does tenfold the damage to EA that it would do if that same group didn't buy their products. The whining damages their PR, forces them to do stuff like promise to give away free games and pull their advertisements. It...

Nah, of course a crappy customer service rep like that would threaten. I've worked alongside people like that before. The kind of people who are unnecessarily rude to customers are usually the type who just love to threaten customers with some kind of punishment if they can get away with it...

This isn't true. Earlier in this very thread someone posted a screencap of Steam's rules regarding chargebacks. If I remember it correctly, they temporarily suspend you, and once everything's cleared, unsuspend you again. Banning someone from the whole service is not a fair, or even remotely...

I have actually worked with Scope. I'm somewhat amazed to hear that they're so well known as to have had an insult formed from their previous name. I had no idea there were that much of a big deal. I get the impression that there are a lot of groups like them around these days, attempting to...

So, reading my whole argument, your response was: Claiming that declining EA stock prices and THQs collapse indicate (to who?) that the market is "likely to carry on", rather than actually responding to any of my points mentioned in the argument, like how EA and Activision are throwing...

I've got to admit, I'm little offended that you join in at the conclusion of a discussion, judge my argument entirely on one paragraph, and then try to paint me as though I'm some Chicken Little character. I've gone into detail as to why shareholders would find a reason to panic, earlier in...

You've made some good points, and although you've still got a few things I disagree with, I think we might both be talking in circles here. I established a premise where EA/Activision's current direction leads them to a sudden collapse. And I hypothesized that this would lead to shareholders...

But like I said, this isn't about sales. We're not talking about games failing to sell. We're talking about the fear shareholders would have if EA and Activision collapsed. We're talking about the investors who would see the collapse of EA and Activision like a warning that they, too, were...

Since we're talking about EA, and most specifically, SimCity, I think that would be the best subject to analyze. And there, the fault is not with the customer. It's not the customers fault they bought a game and can't play it. That fault lies with EA. Under examples like this, people will...

This is a subject I've been discussing with people a lot recently. Our money isn't our voice. Let me explain why; Firstly, the "gaming community" - or, more specifically, the people who care enough about games to discuss them with other people, usually online - are the minority of video...

I actually agree with you on most of your points. People should research these things, and it's not really EA's fault they didn't. But the fact is, at least in the UK, companies are legally obliged to give a refund on software if it is faulty. There's no two ways about that, there's no "but...

It doesn't matter which genres and niches publisher's games appeal to, because we're not talking about all of the publishers failing to sell games, we're talking about the publishers losing their shareholders. Big investors in companies like these don't just sit on their hands, watching the...

Well that report doesn't mention that they don't ban people for chargebacks, it just mentions that they don't ban people for asking for refunds, and the original log doesn't contradict that. Only the OP's interpretation does. So I think you might be right in fact. And EA's responding to it...

Well, the way I look at it is this: If someone buys a game with an online component, say for example Diablo 3, and they (for whatever reason) use a chargeback to get a refund for the game, I think it would be fair for Blizzard to ban you from Diablo 3. After all, if you bought Diablo 3, and...

Except that's not true. As we saw evidenced earlier in this thread, Valve don't do the same. Banning someone would likely affect their whole Origin service. Because "I disagree that you provided me that game, and I'm going to get a refund." definitely should be rewarded with "Well, you'll...