EA Screws Over PS3 Gamers

[AceDiamond]

We've reached the breaking point: Sony fanboys so incromprehensibly stupid that they blame other companies for Sony's fuckups. Bravo.

 

[Nipah_]

We've reached the breaking point: Sony fanboys so incromprehensibly stupid that they blame other companies for Sony's fuckups. Bravo.

Sony is blaming other people for a lack of features that came out LAST generation?
What ever helps you sleep at night I guess.

Pretty much...

Next week they can blame Activision/Blizzard for some huge cockup, and pat themselves on the back for being so damn cool...

 

[garjian]

talking and playing music matters this much to people?

or am i missing something...

 

[CWestfall]

I lost faith in EA long ago. Around the time when they decided to turn SimCity into an expensive, electronic model set.

 

[phar]

Interesting, but really its Sonys fault for implementing these features so late.

Look at Trophy's, pretty much a mess imo. Should of just left them out like Nintendo.

 

[Debatra]

I don't really get what the big deal is...So a company doesn't want their sales to drop because some other company came up with code that works well with everybody else's code but not with theirs? I honestly don't see that as EA being evil, I see that as EA trying it's hardest not to lose the market because somebody else's code makes their code not work.

The real evil is the propaganda you're spreading here by not mentioning that their sales would undoubtedly drop. How would you like to write a book and then, when you're finished, find out that some other language or genre was becoming more and more popular and threatened to stop all sales of your book? How do you think EA feels, putting a lot of work into coding a game (A game which, from what he's mentioned, works perfectly fine on it's own. And that's saying something, knowing what I do about game glitches and the like), and then somebody complains because the code they wrote breaks the code EA wrote. Not EA's fault. They shouldn't lose sales because of it. Otherwise everybody who is using a PC at this second should go complain to Microsoft because that virus they got while streaming...Adult materials...has caused some glitch in their machine (And Mac users, don't laugh. If the Mac ever becomes more widespread than the PC, viruses will find their way onto Macs as well. Not that that will happen, cuz PC's are just that much better ATM). Does it seem fair to blame Microsoft because you made a mistake and some loser created incompatible software? If it does, clearly you need to recheck what's fair and what ain't.

EA is not in the wrong to dislike this software. You are in the wrong for hating them for it, however.

But it's a bit petty to say "If it doesn't work for this one game, it shouldn't work for any other either!". I can understand EA not being all to happy about it, but they can't really tell sony what feature's they are allowed to make for their gaming console, can they?
To continue with your book analogy, that'd be the same as saying that other genres and languages shouldn't be an option for writers. That's not their call to make.

But it's not petty. It effects the sales of EA games, therefore they have a say in the matter. Just like how we have representation before taxation (Supposedly). And to further continue the book analogy, it's like that one new language or genre is trying to eliminate the other language/genre. Should they be allowed to do that because they're the big man on campus? I don't think so. Just because EA is little in this scenario doesn't mean they don't have the right to speak out against something which will undoubtedly hurt future sales.

It would be petty for EA to purposely continue this line of coding so that PS3's coding will always break their games and they will always have legal precedent to fight back. But trying to save current games is not petty, it's a business trying not to lose the millions of dollars they put into a game.

If something that someone else does effects their sales, they have a say in it? By that logic, the author of this hypothetical book should have a say in which other books do and don't get published, as the competition would effect his sales.

 

[Debatra]

Look at Trophy's, pretty much a mess imo. Should of just left them out like Nintendo.

I'll admit that much. I don't really see the point of Trophies and Achievements.

 

[Zersy]

Sigh...

Well our question's have been answered the reason that sony is having such a difficult time implementing Cross Chat and In-Game music is because one company is too lazy to go through with the whole change.

E.A. I'm sorry i ever thought you changed your ways but your still as evil as always I shall now return your name from Electronic Arts back to Evil Assrape.

But all in all I'm a happy PS3 gamer with a 360 as well and I appreciate the hard work each company puts into making there consumer happy.

(Now who would like to join me in a union to destroy EA ?)

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Look at Trophy's, pretty much a mess imo. Should of just left them out like Nintendo.

I'll admit that much. I don't really see the point of Trophies and Achievements.

I myself am the middle ground on this. You see I think achievements are fun to have because it pushes me to make myself better. Where as they're good to have from a financial stand point because people will buy utter crap to get those precious trophies.

People will do that sort of thing and it makes money so....fair play, Sony.

 

[Ph33nix]

EA hates gamers they screwed all of us with vista 64 bit by releasing 2 C&C games that didn;t work for 64 bit...

 

[Pendragon9]

EA screws the gamers again? WHAT A TWEEST!

/M. Night

 

[Debatra]

Look at Trophy's, pretty much a mess imo. Should of just left them out like Nintendo.

I'll admit that much. I don't really see the point of Trophies and Achievements.

I myself am the middle ground on this. You see I think achievements are fun to have because it pushes me to make myself better. Where as they're good to have from a financial stand point because people will buy utter crap to get those precious trophies.

People will do that sort of thing and it makes money so....fair play, Sony.

I was hoping there was more to it than that, but I guess I kind of knew already. It get's hard to ignore when you watch your friends exchange 360 games like UNO and Monopoly with the same fervor they have for Fable 2 and Fallout 3.

 

[Cargando]

So people are overeacting to a small issue and calling out death threats

what else is new?

EDIT: I guess overeacting is a bit of an understatment

Spoiler

Loved the one about half-way down the list saying 'Help! Cannot E-mail EA!'

OT: EA are evil, I thought we'd learnt that by now.

 

[Bhuggy]

I might be doing nothing today but I am not reading that!
uhhh EA screws PS3 gamers?
Basterds!....

 

[Debatra]

I might be doing nothing today but I am not reading that!
uhhh EA screws PS3 gamers?
Basterds!....

Basically, EA's mad at Sony because some of their games fall under the 5% of games that can't support Custom Soundtracks, so

When they found out that a new firmware update was going to suddenly make one of their games look inferior to just about every other game released, they protested. A lot.
They threatened everything, from legal action to dropping support for the PS3 all together.

And:

We've found a couple of titles that just don't like it [Cross-Game Chat]. Similar to the custom soundtrack fiasco, it can cause lag, crashes, desyncronisation (very very bad when this happens), you name it. It can't be used in these games and it just so happens that some of these games are owned by the same company I've been talking about above.

 

[KSarty]

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Why? Because I don't understand why cross-chat has to work with specific games. Why does it need to work within the game you are playing and not just work in the background on the PS3 itself just like Ventrilo or any other PC voice-chat program?

 

[Imat]

But it's not petty. It effects the sales of EA games, therefore they have a say in the matter. Just like how we have representation before taxation (Supposedly). And to further continue the book analogy, it's like that one new language or genre is trying to eliminate the other language/genre. Should they be allowed to do that because they're the big man on campus? I don't think so. Just because EA is little in this scenario doesn't mean they don't have the right to speak out against something which will undoubtedly hurt future sales.

It would be petty for EA to purposely continue this line of coding so that PS3's coding will always break their games and they will always have legal precedent to fight back. But trying to save current games is not petty, it's a business trying not to lose the millions of dollars they put into a game.

I didn't know an EA spokesperson was on these forums!

I'm not (Though if they're hiring I'd certainly take the work). I'm just the one guy on these forums who doesn't inherently despise corporations for making money. I also try to stick up for the company which is attacked for doing good by their investors. All in the name of leveling the playing field, I say.