this is the end of CoD i suppose, couldn't care at all though because they've been pretty terrible since MW1, and the whole series has pretty much been the exact same game but with different models skins and in the later ones a better multiplayer.
The problem isn't the gameplay, it's how EA feels like they need to support the whole entire game.
Going after CoD.
Going after Activision's pricing model.
Going after Steam.
It just seems really childish in the end, because the game would do much better if the focus was on what people wanted in the game. That's what I liked about adding things like prone and developing on a PC. The game can't even do 60 on a console yet, which just goes to show they're serious about their priorities. But then they do stunts like this towards the competition, and it kills the game for me. In BC2 if I wanted to play in Vietnam all over again I'd go back to BO. I don't want the same theme twice in the matter of 1 month.
I wasn't even planning on getting MW3, but this is just disgusting.
Money for clans?
I usually end up getting call of duty games because my friends get them, but I'm seriously considering switching over to a new first person shooter.
Battlefield maybe?
There's no use going through with this since you are so convinced that EA is trying to ripoff everyone.
Okay, then don't buy BF3. Go pay for Elite.
I don't care, go ahead and waste your money.
You don't even have to pay for the bulk of Elite, and chances are I'm not even getting mw3 :v:.
EA also hasn't changed that much overall since its days of screwing over the customer. They still want to be #1, just thankfully they treat us much better.
Instead of whining about it, why not boycott it, but actually boycott it. I remember when peopel were boycotting MW2, release day jsut about everyone in the damn boycott group was playing MW2.
[QUOTE=Reimu;31114197]You don't even have to pay for the bulk of Elite, and chances are I'm not even getting mw3 :v:.
EA also hasn't changed that much overall since its days of screwing over the customer. They still want to be #1, just thankfully they treat us much better.[/QUOTE]
Aw man these good games and free map packs are really screwing me over aughhhhhh
Remember when using EA customer support would either give you a roundabout answer, or basically leave you with "Well, sucks to be you?"
[QUOTE=Reimu;31113984]In BC2 if I wanted to play in Vietnam all over again I'd go back to BO. I don't want the same theme twice in the matter of 1 month.[/QUOTE]Yes because the blops MP is set in vietnam, with vietnam era guns and other nam shit.
right?
When you have 50 million users total on ps3 and xbox, you only need a few dumb kids to pay to be insanely rich.
[QUOTE=TheCloak;31114322]Instead of whining about it, why not boycott it, but actually boycott it. I remember when peopel were boycotting MW2, release day jsut about everyone in the damn boycott group was playing MW2.[/QUOTE]
Boycotting it won't do shit
Okay so maybe at MOST a few thousand people refuse to buy MW3
That's NOTHING compared to the millions of drooling 12 year olds that will flock to it on release
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;31114397]Yes because the blops MP is set in vietnam, with vietnam era guns and other nam shit.
right?[/QUOTE]
Yep. SP and MP both have a large chunk of MP set in Vietnam.
[QUOTE=Reimu;31114388]Remember when using EA customer support would either give you a roundabout answer, or basically leave you with "Well, sucks to be you?"[/QUOTE]
Remember when you tried to convince us that EA was worse than Activision?
Good times
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It's like having sex with a nymphomaniac
Sure you can fall to temptation once or twice but when you keep taking advantage that's just seriously fucked up
I'm not a CoD player, but when this was announced, I thought it was cool that Activision was finally getting on board with a stat tracking system and such, but seriously, subscribing to create clans? That type of shit is what I would expect out of an f2p game like Combat Arms.
Activision needs to take a lesson from their partner Blizzard, and make a subscription model that actually rewards players for paying it, like free content every so often. But they wont, and even subscribers will have to pay for map packs.
More reason to just stick to TF2 and Battlefield.
The really sad thing is that fucking 10 y/o kids will buy this shit and continue to stab gaming to death with a poisoned dagger. This is painful to watch.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;31114787]More reason to just stick to TF2 and Battlefield.[/QUOTE]
I wonder how much it would cost to buy all of the tf2 maps if their map makers sold them like Activision sells the map packs they make?
[QUOTE=Reimu;31114433]Yep. SP and MP both have a large chunk of MP set in Vietnam.[/QUOTE]
Correction: A few of the MP maps are jungle maps, the rest are either set in russia or america.
It's pretty much a modern setting.
If you haven't been living under a rock for 10 years, you'd know that EA use to pull the exact same shit Activision did with cutting corners and taking advantage of others.
EA uses a Pass service for Need for Speed, Madden, and other online games so used game sales still profit to them. EA has a shoddy history of buying profitable companies, and then running their games into the ground (the Sim games with Maxis, for instance). Sim-game creativity completely dried up when EA bought Maxis, and everything slowly became SimCity and the Sims. Likewise, EA pretty much always uses some form of EA Online-related service despite the use of PSN, XBL, or Steam, just to assure control on online play for their titles. Club Pogo a few years back use to be known for shoddy server maintenance which led to paying members being locked out of account information or getting literally pre-typed, non-sequitur answers to problems. And then there's of course EA's attempt to dominate the football industry by gaining video game licensing rights, which was inherently rather greedy and destroyed the opportunity for many great football games - Blitz, ESPN - to prosper.
If you try to contact Online Support about online passes, they'll try to send you discounts to shut you up while they walk around the problem. They virtually will not help you.
Whenever you're playing black ops MP you never stop and think "oh shit im in nam son".
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Okay, but what does EA have to do with call of duty?
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;31114916]Whenever you're playing black ops MP you never stop and think "oh shit im in nam son".
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Okay, but what does EA have to do with call of duty?[/QUOTE]
Maybe you don't.
I mentioned earlier that EA isn't exactly a quality and fair company and they pull similar shit as Activision. I will be fair though and say most of EA's decisions are based on poor understanding (releasing a BF2142 patch that causes blue screens) than inherent greed.
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I mean 4 years ago this wasn't news to anybody, everyone knew EA was like this. Then they said "Oh we're sorry, we'll clean up our act," which I DO admire them for. They aren't good publishers though; not like Valve, who generally speaking tries to be reasonable and fair internally and externally.
Do I get bonus points for guessing that this is exactly what would happen when people read this thread?
Operation Screw Over Consumers is underway.
[QUOTE=Reimu;31114994]Maybe you don't.
I mentioned earlier that EA isn't exactly a quality and fair company and they pull similar shit as Activision. I will be fair though and say most of EA's decisions are based on poor understanding (releasing a BF2142 patch that causes blue screens) than inherent greed.
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I mean 4 years ago this wasn't news to anybody, everyone knew EA was like this. Then they said "Oh we're sorry, we'll clean up our act," which I DO admire them for. They aren't good publishers though; not like Valve, who generally speaking tries to be reasonable and fair internally and externally.[/QUOTE]
Its true that they aren't perfect, but you really cannot compare them to Valve. Valve is small, and privately owned, while EA is the opposite. Its like attempting to do surgery with a scalpel or a broadsword. The broadsword may have more power and more utility than the scalpel, but comparatively, it is unwieldy.
That's true; EA holds 8,000 employees while Valve hires only 260, for instance.
I still love how the hate went from the Halo series/Microsoft to Call of Duty/Activision :v:
It's really all bandwagoning..Though Activision really deserves it this time around, CHARGING for stats and clans? Fuck off.
Complain about how much COD sucks all you want, Activision is going to become even more filthy rich as a result. They could charge $200 a copy, $50 a month, and require you to drink a shot glass of diarrhea every time you log in, and the COD fanboys would just lap it all up.
[QUOTE=Reimu;31113864]I wouldn't really mind it at all, except all I see is EA tracing CoD's route with similar themes and ideas. Origin already killed my interest in Battlefield 3 pretty hard,[/QUOTE]
You uhh, you do know that Origin only installs games and isn't a form of DRM like Steam, meaning it won't have a single impact on the game if you buy it retail or from another distributor right?
No?
Then stop complaining about it.
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[QUOTE=Reimu;31115267]That's true; EA holds 8,000 employees while Valve hires only 260, for instance.[/QUOTE]
Right, now which of those is a multi-national publishing firm in charge of a plethora of game developers, and which is a game developer with it's own publishing platform, nothing else?
Seriously, are all your points this stupid?
[QUOTE=Jund;31114406]Boycotting it won't do shit
Okay so maybe at MOST a few thousand people refuse to buy MW3
That's NOTHING compared to the millions of drooling 12 year olds that will flock to it on release[/QUOTE]
Then who cares really, if you aren't going to buy into it why does it matter to you if activision is doing this?
[QUOTE=Reimu;31114994]Maybe you don't.
I mentioned earlier that EA isn't exactly a quality and fair company and they pull similar shit as Activision. I will be fair though and say most of EA's decisions are based on poor understanding[B] (releasing a BF2142 patch that causes blue screens)[/B] than inherent greed.[/QUOTE]
That would be the fault of DICE, the developer, not EA, the publisher.
Holy shit I can't take you seriously any more. Well, I never did, but you get my point.
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