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[termokanden]

Blizzard aren't exactly innocent. They do a lot of things right, and they do a lot of things wrong.

Remember the talk about their Warden program? Supposedly it would just hash process information or something and send it back. But you'd be a fool to believe they keep everyone informed of all its functions.

I don't really know how to effectively combat the cheating though. It's very difficult to do so properly and keep the game running smoothly, which is probably why pretty much every multiplayer game in existence has been hacked.

Modifié par termokanden, 04 juin 2012 - 06:32 .

[Morroian]

Tirigon wrote...

Morroian wrote...

That may be but it also has the most anti consumer practices attached to it so its hypocritical to laud Blizzard while criticising EA for its practices.

Actually no.

Unlike EA's DRM, Blizzard's Battle.Net actually has advantages for the consumer as well.

LOL.

[Tirigon]

Morroian wrote...

Tirigon wrote...

Morroian wrote...

That may be but it also has the most anti consumer practices attached to it so its hypocritical to laud Blizzard while criticising EA for its practices.

Actually no.

Unlike EA's DRM, Blizzard's Battle.Net actually has advantages for the consumer as well.

LOL.

- Cross-game chat with friends
- Access to your games everywhere
- no need for a DVD to play
- online purchase directly to your account for those who wish

Granted it may not be much but it's something at least.

[Chromie]

Tirigon wrote...
- Cross-game chat with friends
- Access to your games everywhere
- no need for a DVD to play
- online purchase directly to your account for those who wish

Granted it may not be much but it's something at least.

LOL!

-Steam has that and Origin. Oh and so does Starcraft 2 which doesn't have always online DRM
-Umm pretty much every PC games does nowadays right? I look at my Steam, Origin, Gog and Gamersgate games and I can download them from anywhere oh and Blizzard also. Diablo 2, Starcraft 1/2 Warcraft III and WoW
-Wow your just reaching I don't think any PC game nowadays even needs a DVD to play
-Like I said Starcraft 2 doesn't require always online

[Skypezee]

 Spoony's review of Ultima 9 sums up my views of EA reall well

[Tirigon]

Skelter192 wrote...

LOL!

-Steam has that and Origin. Oh and so does Starcraft 2 which doesn't have always online DRM
-Umm pretty much every PC games does nowadays right? I look at my Steam, Origin, Gog and Gamersgate games and I can download them from anywhere oh and Blizzard also. Diablo 2, Starcraft 1/2 Warcraft III and WoW
-Wow your just reaching I don't think any PC game nowadays even needs a DVD to play
-Like I said Starcraft 2 doesn't require always online

- Steam and Origin are the same principle but handled worse.
- no
- many do
- SC2 has THE VERY SAME DRM via Battle.Net that D3 has.

[Get Magna Carter]

 1) I percieve them as a huge American company. Huge, american companies in general tend to have a lot of money, be obsessed with making lots of money, diminish creativity,and make kneejerk responses to potential risks of lawsuit.
2) EA is largely associated with sports games and have a bad reputation for annual updates and bad licensed games -as I tend to avoid the games in question, I will reserve judgement 
3) EA take over many developers making good games -many are perceived as deteriating after the takeover, some are closed down - I cannot judge whether the loss of quality is genuine and if so whether coincidental (all series have a peak moment and often continue on with inferior games) and it is hard to tell which developers would stll be going if they hadn't been taken over - it is possible that EA's money has sustained some.  With Bioware there is the additional complication that after the takeover they shifted to target the mass-market thus alienating many of the historic fans though we cannot tell whether this would have happened anyway and if it was forced by the current awkward economics of games (see below).
4) EA is associated with agressive DRM, cutting content from games to sell as dlc, etc - these approaches are hated by gamers but practiced by many games companies.  Sadly this seems to be a response to increasingly powerful hardware (and associated gamer demands) forcing up game development costs while the global economic problems means that ganers have less money to spend making it harder for games to be profitable.  While I do not like it, I cannot see a viable solution (and do not expect game companies to work as charities) so have difficult complaining.
5) While there are good reasons for EA to be unpopular they do not deserve the label of most evil company in America ..this should maybe go to a greedy bank...or perhaps Walmart (what I hear about them, scares me)