Poll: The biggest d*** move of 2011
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No, the biggest dick move was the brickable 3DS. All arguments, null in void. I was somewhat interested in the thing until that point. Such a shame too. If it weren't for that, I would've actually bought a Nintendo game.
Where's the option for Nintendo doing, well, anything it did this year?
Release a gimmicky, over-priced handheld that barely anyone wanted,
Ignore your existing console (i.e. release no games) to focus on a newer, gimmicky-er console,
Give a big middle-finger to Project Rainfall,
Tow the line of re-releasing old games instead of making new ones,
etc.
etc.
Release a gimmicky, over-priced handheld that barely anyone wanted,
Ignore your existing console (i.e. release no games) to focus on a newer, gimmicky-er console,
Give a big middle-finger to Project Rainfall,
Tow the line of re-releasing old games instead of making new ones,
etc.
etc.
Wheres all of them, because ALL were massive dick moves.
Because EA shouldn't have been the ones to do it, EA already has a backwards-ass marketing and customer support, because of this, they have a backwards-ass system, competition is never bad unless by the wrong people, you wouldn't have a pacifist fight a saber tooth lion that has been on cocaine and trained to kill.Active Schizophrenic said:
Excuse me, but didn't EA just SUDDENLY launch this with very little talk about it, and the fact that they took off the games [yes, THEY did, not Valve] that people already payed for through Steam don't get to keep those games?SgtFoley said:
Again, EA is EVIL, almost blizzard evil, but valve is a middle ground.
None of the above. A personal gripe more than anything, but the excessive amounts of DLC for DiRT 3 is really bugging me. I paid full price for the game, why do I have to spend more every week if I don't want the game to remind me every 5 minutes I don't have the latest DLC? The DLC already currently available probably amounts to more than I paid for the game.
ubisoft first, that's bullshit, then activision, although i don't mind, i hope kotick digs himself into a hole he will never be able to get out of, and then EA's origin service is a massive annoyance for everyone..
I disagree entirely.42 said:
The sticking point seems to be that EA insist on players being able to update their games from EA content and third party servers (think Gamespy, Fileplanet, IGN etc).
Valve insist you buy new content Via the Steam client and the Steam client only, whether or not it's a Valve game.
Basically, they are throwing their toys out of the pram because they can't go taking extra cuts of each game sale.
This is Valve's first major Dick Move and it's by far the biggest of the year. They only banned updates coming from outside the steam client very recently (as in, the last couple of months). Most EA games update from EA's own servers, not Steam, as a result Valve have been retro-actively removing EA games that violate their new rule from Steam.
Fair enough, unless you bought one of those games on Steam. You can still play it, but can no longer update (because you can only update games in the Steam folders using the Steam client now) and should your game need re-installing due to corruption or and error, then you're out of luck.
Valve's attitude towards customers in this position is best summed up as 'bugger off,' They won't be giving refunds to users who bought the games and are now left with potentially bricked content.
Basically, Valve is attempting to throw it's weight around as biggest publisher on the PC. They dropped this rule change (effectively a massive price hike for everyone that isn't Valve) without any warning and simply used the threat of removing games to force publishers into line. Indies and small publishers can't afford to be off Steam.
EA however can, EA also have (amongst other things, which I'm sure you can think of) a history of standing up for themselves and evidently took umbridge at Valve suddenly moving the goal posts for publishers of games on Steam.
For all their many, many faults, EA are innocent in this one. The blame lies firmly with Valve and it's a worrying trend. This is the first time I can think of where Valve have abused their position as market leaders, I hope it's the last or the image of Valve as the customer focused ray of light in PC gaming's DRM black hole could disappearing in the next few years.
#Edit, it should also be noted that none of the releases from EA in the next twelve months will be Origin exclusive, they'll be available on all download serviecs and as physical copies, but not on Steam.
Biggest dick move? I'd definitely go for the whole, bomb + shooting in Norway. That was probably the biggest one.
Ubisoft's DRM is the only thing on this list I would actually classify as a "dick move," so by default I had to choose it.