EA fail at posting fake praise? (In fact EA fanpage)

[Shidira]

So glad I read this. So sad for EA, not that I care for them.

 

[Magicman10893]

I wonder if their constant failures in marketing is just a ploy to make us feel sorry for them and buy their games out of pity.

 

[major_chaos]

It's cool, I know it's tough to argue real reasons

I could argue with you, but that fact that you are post that Sim city thing in a semi unrelated thread, just to try and convince me on the "EA is evil" thing shows it will accomplish nothing, we are both far to entrenched on polar opposite sides of the argument. You will continue to hate EA, I will continue to by EA games because I enjoy a decent number of them, neither of us will say anything the other hasn't heard a dozen times before, neither of us will learn anything, and absolutely nothing will be accomplished.

you're not a bad person or anything (and that isn't sarcasm).

Pointing out that it "isn't sarcasm" makes me suspect an implied insult more that if you hadn't clarified, but even if I disagree with you, you don't seem like an ass so i'll take your word for it.

Whatever you decide, I will agree it'll be better than the comic you got your avatar from.

Yay! I got that avatar half because I like SFH and half because I because I guessed that some people would find SFH offensive, but no one seemed to recognize it until now so thanks for that. Unless you didn't know what it was from and that was just a blanket "furries suck" comment, at which point shame on you for getting my hopes up.

 

[lacktheknack]

This would have been so incredible if it was official.

 

[Nurb]

It's cool, I know it's tough to argue real reasons

I could argue with you, but that fact that you are post that Sim city thing in a semi unrelated thread, just to try and convince me on the "EA is evil" thing shows it will accomplish nothing, we are both far to entrenched on polar opposite sides of the argument. You will continue to hate EA, I will continue to by EA games because I enjoy a decent number of them, neither of us will say anything the other hasn't heard a dozen times before, neither of us will learn anything, and absolutely nothing will be accomplished.

you're not a bad person or anything (and that isn't sarcasm).

Pointing out that it "isn't sarcasm" makes me suspect an implied insult more that if you hadn't clarified, but even if I disagree with you, you don't seem like an ass so i'll take your word for it.

Whatever you decide, I will agree it'll be better than the comic you got your avatar from.

Yay! I got that avatar half because I like SFH and half because I because I guessed that some people would find SFH offensive, but no one seemed to recognize it until now so thanks for that. Unless you didn't know what it was from and that was just a blanket "furries suck" comment, at which point shame on you for getting my hopes up.

A) You are right, but only because I learned my lesson about giving them money 10 years ago.

B) This is a gaming forum, I had to clarify

C) No, it's not offensive. It's just bad, in both art design and writing. I've shamefully been part of the fandom since the 90's and I've been on boards long enough to know the snarling pit that is the majority of fans shares the opinion, but also to know not to care about who likes what within it. Check out Cheap Thrills.

D) I thought you weren't going to argue with me

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Okay, even with the knowledge that it's a fanpage, what crazy person would tell the world that this game is worth every penny at this stage in the launch? Unless they've been a fanpage since the 256 colors days (which would predate Facebook), looks like a troll. Or some kind of Stockholm Syndrome thing where they're very eager to be the first to compliment EA whenever they speak. Very interesting...

 

[major_chaos]

C) No, it's not offensive. It's just bad, in both art design and writing. I've shamefully been part of the fandom since the 90's and I've been on boards long enough to know the snarling pit that is the majority of fans shares the opinion, but also to know not to care about who likes what within it. Check out Cheap Thrills.

Having zero exposure to the fans, (who I honestly didn't know existed) I was unaware of this. Its not like I hold SFH as a high standard or anything, its more of a guilty pleasure.

D) I thought you weren't going to argue with me

1. "It's cool, I know it's tough to argue real reasons" sounded a bit like an insult so I feel the need to defend myself
2. I'm not going to argue with you about EA, i'll argue other things

EDIT: gave a quick glance at Cheap Thrills. It looks interesting, and the art is nice and stylish later on, but sadly it looks like it hasn't updated since December of last year

 

[Tayh]

I bet alot of people would suddenly feel very stupid if they actually took the time to read the topic before posting.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

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Try actually reading the thread before you come in spewing hate, you look less silly. multiple people have already pointed out that the like came from an unofficial fan page, not to mention my first guess was that this was a troll trying to stir up this exact response. But no it proves your idea that "EA IS TEH EVULZ" so it must be true.

Ok first of all I wasn't spewing hate. I didn't say anything about EA being "evulz" or anything of the sort. All I was saying was that someone really screwed up and it was funny.

 

[NightmareExpress]

"Unofficial fan page"

Though I wouldn't put it past them to fake it.
They've done some weird marketing shit and just weird shit in general over the years in an attempt to move product.

 

[major_chaos]

Snip

Fair enough, you were not doing the "EA is evil" thing so much as the "EA is run by morons" thing which I can understand. Even as someone who is almost totally fine with EA I admit their entire PR/marketing team needs to be fired. out of a cannon. Although my growing frustration with the EA hate made my post more hostile that it needs to be, that doesn't change the fact that (for once) this wasn't actually EA being morons.

 

[Ldude893]

I've been watching this whole commotion for three days now. Rarely do you see a company stuck in a crapstorm and deserves to be stuck in a crapstorm, and watch as they dig themselves deeper and deeper. It's beautiful to say the least.

I think I need more popcorn, but last I've heard the Sim City servers are getting slightly better, so I guess the storm's nearing a possible end.

 

[JEBWrench]

It feels so wrong to laugh at...The level of embarrassment is unreal

You mean, from the people who thought it was EA who made that post? I agree.

That was cutting...But I can't be expected to read every single post on these forums and investigate the validity of every single goddamn story, can I? This was something that was just amusing. I don't care if it's true or not, it made me laugh ^_^ No need to come down on people with a shit ton of bricks

Eh. Just a bit of grump on my part actually. You're right - no need for me to bring the brick hammer down. (I was getting ready to head into the office, I'm generally grumpy before work.)

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Okay, even with the knowledge that it's a fanpage, what crazy person would tell the world that this game is worth every penny at this stage in the launch? Unless they've been a fanpage since the 256 colors days (which would predate Facebook), looks like a troll. Or some kind of Stockholm Syndrome thing where they're very eager to be the first to compliment EA whenever they speak. Very interesting...

Or, maybe, just maybe, the game works fine for them? You know how everyone had problems with Skyrim bugging out all the time? I never had any problems with it. As with Borderlands 2, not a single problem from release while countless others were losing characters and not being able to play some of it. Just because some people can't play it at the moment doesn't mean everyone in the world is unable to.

 

[JEBWrench]

Okay, even with the knowledge that it's a fanpage, what crazy person would tell the world that this game is worth every penny at this stage in the launch? Unless they've been a fanpage since the 256 colors days (which would predate Facebook), looks like a troll. Or some kind of Stockholm Syndrome thing where they're very eager to be the first to compliment EA whenever they speak. Very interesting...

Or, maybe, just maybe, the game works fine for them? You know how everyone had problems with Skyrim bugging out all the time? I never had any problems with it. As with Borderlands 2, not a single problem from release while countless others were losing characters and not being able to play some of it. Just because some people can't play it at the moment doesn't mean everyone in the world is unable to.

Honestly, at first, I was recommending it just as highly. Now that more and more information has come about how major the problems others are having, I recommend waiting, even though I haven't had any problems whatsoever.

 

[Costia]

Looks like an EA employee was banned from neogaf today for trying to do PR damage control without revealing he is working for EA:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=521502
Admin reply on page 2:

What we don't welcome is this kind of behavior: attempting to distort the news aggregate by posting apologetic articles and accompanying them with an editorial slant favoring your company, all without actually disclosing to anyone here that you work for the company in question. It's akin to when Ken Lobb was pretending to be NeoGAF's biggest totally regular guy Xbox fan.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Or, maybe, just maybe, the game works fine for them? You know how everyone had problems with Skyrim bugging out all the time? I never had any problems with it. As with Borderlands 2, not a single problem from release while countless others were losing characters and not being able to play some of it. Just because some people can't play it at the moment doesn't mean everyone in the world is unable to.

I was under the impression that that's what the problem was. That it was "a disaster" because very few could play it, or at least not for very long or without the server deleting things. Even with you being 100% right, I find it dishonest for this fangroup thing to say that it's worth every penny when there's such a good chance of getting nothing for your pennies right now. That's all I was getting at.

 

[SSJBlastoise]

I was under the impression that that's what the problem was. That it was "a disaster" because very few could play it, or at least not for very long or without the server deleting things. Even with you being 100% right, I find it dishonest for this fangroup thing to say that it's worth every penny when there's such a good chance of getting nothing for your pennies right now. That's all I was getting at.

Well being a fan page it is undoubtedly going to be biased but I'm going on that they believe that when it is playable (didn't seem to be an issue for them) it is a great game.

Captcha: stop wasting time

I think that's a good cue for me to go to bed haha