lukeiamyourdad Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 http://rpg.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=7719 That'll show them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tags Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 no reason to laugh, they were a good company and there goin down now, i think it sucks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermie Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 What I really didn't understand about that article, was that this is bad news for the entire game industry, because if EA can't succeed, then who can. Oh, I don't know, maybe the competetors that actually ARE outselling them? I think that means that they make money, ergo are doing well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by tags no reason to laugh, they were a good company and there goin down now, i think it sucks... It's clear you've had your head stuck under a rather large rock for the past few months. Anyways, hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the EA monopoly. If we're lucky we'll have seperate development companies flourishing as a result, but chances are that we'll just end up with another monopoly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by tags no reason to laugh, they were a good company and there goin down now, i think it sucks... Exactly, because a company that abuses its employees, customers, and the gaming industry, is a good company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tags Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 this thread is about EA GAMES, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 But some analysts see this as bad news for the whole of industry, if EA can't succeed, then who can. Assheads. Glad to see em go, past 3 years most of their games sucked. A few good ones came around, but not by their doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derc Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Successful games from rivals such as World of Warcraft, Halo 2 and GTA were seen as having a major impact on EA sales. Well duh. Those are actually good games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vikinor Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I don't care for EA, but I do like the Battlefield sereis. What's going to actually happen to their "good" games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Well I'm sure that spending ungodly amounts of money on licenses and crap like that also played a factor in it. All your base are belong to EA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeskywalker1 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I like their 007 games. But to be honest, the way they treat their employees is unacceptable in any ethical business owner's perspective, and should be unacceptable in the public's eyes too. Come on, working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day? Oh wait... if they "behave" they get out early on Saturday at 6:30. Its history though, every empire comes crashing down eventually. Although I can't see EA going anywhere for a long while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by tags this thread is about EA GAMES, isn't it? Yes, the company who has caused me to instigate my first ever boycott. I delight in their suffering! Long live WoW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokarev Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Long live EA's competitors and the downfall of EA! Perhaps slanted, but hey... They ruin franchises and make them a name brand alone and they just keep mass producing crap.. It's time for them to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by lukeiamyourdad Please, laugh at EA now. TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 EA Games kick ass. Don't believe me? Who cares? I like alot of their games and will keep buying them as long as they keep making good ones. Fight Night Round 2 is currently dominating my PS2 game time, and the BF games are in regular rotation on my pc. So they've thrown a Wal Mart style monopoly on the gaming industry. BFD. Quit whining. WoW? What is that? Oh yeah, that crap game where little monsters and **** have silly little circles around their tiny little feet. EA will probably buy the rights to that piece of crap in the near future. So EA doesn't own WoW. I'm sure that really hurts their sales. And what's all this nonsense about EA treating their employees poorly? News to me. I'd ask for a source, but fact is I don't care. I'm sure most of the same people bitching about that sort of thing are wearing name brand clothing that was made in a third world sweat shop somewhere. Hypocrites. You can't stand to see someone doing better than you. How come the law of survival of the fittest applies to every thing but major corporations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narfblat Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by TiE 23 TiE Good job, Tie. I was thinking about that, but I was too lazy to look for or edit a picture of Nelson. "EA Sports, it's in the game!" replced by: "EA Dorks, they're kinda lame!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by narfblat Good job, Tie. I was thinking about that, but I was too lazy to look for or edit a picture of Nelson. "EA Sports, it's in the game!" replced by: "EA Dorks, they're kinda lame!" Danke. Ehh, Im going to bed >_> TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by CapNColostomy And what's all this nonsense about EA treating their employees poorly? News to me. Well you can hardly make a relevant comment to something you obviously have no knowledge about eh? So EA doesn't own WoW. I'm sure that really hurts their sales. EA shares fell 13 percent on the news, it's the first time the company has issued a profit warning. Successful games from rivals such as World of Warcraft, Halo 2 and GTA were seen as having a major impact on EA sales. Why yes, it certainly DOES hurt their sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I dont see the big deal.... EA is so freakin huge, with its subsidiaries and offshoots, they distribute(they distribute Lucasarts titles here in Australia) more than any other game co... this is likely to show up in their expenditure vs profits... This doesnt mean the company is about to fold. Investments Microsoft make fail spectacularly, yet they dont make it to the swamp, to be dissected by the swamps highly skilled post pubescent and frat boy analysts... WoW... not my cup of tea. Whereas astro is always up for a great social game of FIFA Soccer or NHL etc. at the end of the day, this is all about freakin MONEY. No one give a flying fruit about what is the best game engine, what has the gameplay to make the gaming universe happy. If this was all about labour of love style of games, we'd obviously have much much less to choose from and much less competition in this market..... ET, put your monopoly money where your mouth is and linky us to some news source refs about EA mistreating their employees. Sure it might be true, but you dont expect us to take your word for it, you are after all a tad biased on this issue mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 ^ That comin from the guy who screams "nintendo is kiddy" any chance he can get XD lol let people have their satisfaction in seeing a company that ate up so many others hurt a little in some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight of Keno Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Aww, I'll miss the good old EA-start at every game... Ah... Even if they have bought rights to many games and made them worse doesn't mean their bad. It's the ones doing the games that suck @$$ pretty badly... Don't blame EA Yeah, just kidding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by Astrotoy7 ET, put your monopoly money where your mouth is and linky us to some news source refs about EA mistreating their employees. Sure it might be true, but you dont expect us to take your word for it, you are after all a tad biased on this issue Find it yourself, it was posted way back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Seeing as how everyone here clearly hates EA, I have to wonder. Where did they get so filthy ****ing rich? I mean, nobody here would ever buy a game from these filthy rat bastard child molesting whore cocksucker grandmother raping evil tyrants, right? Were the people making these games turning right around and buying them by the truckload themselves on payday? Surely EA didn't build their fortune on Astro's and my money alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 yes, my money, yes ah, the CapN has discovered the cock+sucker loophole. Its the LFN equivalent of the evil mirror universe in Star Trek mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 do what everyone else is doing... blame it on the "casual gamer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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