Well at least its only Sports games, but seriously, a '10 game is a bit early.
I don't care for the sports one, but BFME... I've shed a tear
I boosted for the last few achievements I need in BFME on the 360.
Sad that the online feature will just...vanish.
All that time I had spent formulating strategies for each of the races has been wasted, as now I'll only be able to go up against bots. I had heard of the shutdown for BFME from my friends that played it, and I managed to find some guy who helped me boost for a few of the multiplayer-win based achievements so I could have the heros if I ever wanted to use them in singleplayer.
FIFA 09 for PC, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii
Too early in my opinion. Although I have 11, I won't be able to vs my mates anymore.
Thats why i dont buy EA games, they dont give a flying fuck abount the community.
Sport games last 1 year, then get a re-release without any changes.
Wait, Battle for Middle-Earth? I still roll that out every now and then to play with my friends...
Well, it will still work online with Hamachi or Tunngle, right?
Fuck, I just thought that a BFME 3 somehow was being announced when I saw the picture. Best RTS ever. :saddowns:
It would have been a good game if it hadn't been for Cavalry running over everything.
[quote]Was anyone still playing Battle For Middle-Earth?[/quote]
I was.
[editline]5th January 2011[/editline]
[B]Was.[/B]
I still play NCAA 09
I miss Far Cry: Instincts... My first Xbox live game, I loved it.
Is it really that expensive to maintain multiplayer service for games that are still being played?
[QUOTE=zombieslaya;27217978]Is it really that expensive to maintain multiplayer service for games that are still being played?[/QUOTE]
Apparently it is, I've seen lots of games that have lost their multiplayer over the years due to loss of funds.
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;27214892]Thats why i dont buy EA games, they dont give a flying fuck abount the community.[/QUOTE]
Says the guy with Battlefield Bad Company 2 in his Steam list.
This is getting even more dumb in combination with the online pass. You buy a game on ebay, pay for the online pass (which I would never do (I'm more a single player guy)) and get to read "Your game is over one year old, no MP for you, idiot! Buy our latest game!"
[QUOTE=Kab2tract;27218152]Says the guy with Battlefield Bad Company 2 in his Steam list.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, steam holyday sales, i regret buying it anyway.
EA is generally pretty good about most things, it's just mainly in the sports games department where they can act like complete dicks because people will buy pretty much any sports game with an official brand on it
EA's cool. They're not Activishit and they gave me a refund on All Points Bulletin.
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;27214892]Thats why i dont buy EA games, they dont give a flying fuck abount [b]1%[/b] of their community.[/QUOTE]
I bought spore from these guys, crappy DRM wont let me get it back. Now Spore is on steam and I feel cheated :ohdear:
Aren't all these games hosted by the client on listen servers? (If they can be played over a LAN or Hamachi, the answer is yes.) The publisher's/developers' servers would just be running a master list of servers (and possibly taking login information as a form of DRM).
Is it too difficult to develop a standard protocol for server listings such that multiple games can share the same master server? The cost of upkeep should just be the bandwidth from polling servers and electricity - similar to a [i]webpage[/i]...fuck, you could make clients fetch master list information using URIs to access a HTTP server with SQL and PHP - then maintenance would [i]be[/i] maintaining a website.
Then again, websites are pretty expensive to host. It's not like we have teenagers running LAMP servers out their parents' house hosting image boards and the installer for a game called "SourceForts" for thousands of people. Hell if that same teenager had enough bandwidth to dish out 4 kilobyte text files to less than 1% of EA's consumer base.
[QUOTE=gta-man12345;27220209]Yeah, steam holyday sales, i regret buying it anyway.[/QUOTE]
Why? BFBC2 is great, and definitely worth it at such a low price. Also, you only played 1.1 hours of the game, hardly enough time to judge it. Anyways, you said you don't buy EA games, but you do.
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