Game publishers, frustrated by the rise of use gamed sales, are increasingly making games that require online passes. A gamer has to purchase an online pass before he can play the game online. This trend sucks for gamers.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
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This is stupid what about those that have other family member who play from the the same game.I paid $60 for mk and if it gets the online pass i'm gonna have to pay another $30 just so my bros can play online god i really hate this generation.
Im against Online passes but I see why some developers are doing it. But they really need to make it like a 3 time use thing or something, so more than one person that has a console in your house doesnt have to pay $15 to play online.
This is all fine and dandy that some people don't like online passes, but I rented Medal of Honor and Crysis 2 for PS3 and I could still play online without an online pass.
I'm not sure how long this lasts, but I guess it doesn't matter to me since I only have the game for 7 days anyhow.
As for online passes, it shouldn't really matter. I always find used games for only 5-10 dollars cheaper than new. So why not put your money towards a new, unused copy of whatever EA game you want? If you don't like it, just stop buying their games. Simple.
yep and this is what i do, any game requiring an online pass i won't buy simple... When i get my pc though i will download them for free :-) just to put two fingers up to these money grabbing companies... I mean come on they still make shit loads of money just off one game! I'm betting more money than we'll see in our lifetime! But oh no this is not enough! If they can get rid of used games and rented games they'll get even more MONEY! Fuck the fans, fuck the people that can't afford new games! Just get that MONEY!... Yeah i'll have those games for free thanks. Lol... What really gets me is i saw dead space 2 in game pre owned the other day, it was like 35 quid i think, i could get it cheaper new! But then that's just game for you! Another money grabbing rip off company! I can't remember the last time i bought something in there! I only go in to piss the staff off lmao. I know, i'm a bastard lol.
online passes fail for us but not for them because they get money from these passes..