EA Treats Xbox Live Gamers Like Shit

[burgundy]

The best whores are the ones that pay you.

[K3V]

I would be happy if EA said, "you spent $50 on this game, and you pay $50 for Xbox Live, feel free to play the game online for free".

Not hard.

Weren't their PS2 games playable for free online?

[∀ Narayan]

Stop playing games, get a job, and go outside.

Or, you can boycott EA.

That's what I've been doing.

[burgundy]

It's only a boycott if you actively deny yourself the purchase.

I'm just not interested.

[ChaoofNee]

Stop playing games, get a job, and go outside.

That last part is very underrated.

[gameoverDude]

EA Japan was cool at one time, for being the publisher of the Saturn versions of Raizing's Soukyugurentai and Battle Garegga.

[Josh]

chan

[JMET]

I have a spam filter, they made it to the list.

[WTFer]

Weren't their PS2 games playable for free online?

yeah, but they want to punish microsoft for making Xbox Live & thinking they could cut EA out of the loop

[James]

I played a few games of NFS:Most Wanted with Bahn over the holiday season on 360 Live Arcade. Nobody asked me for anything and I haven't got a bit of e-mail from EA. I take it this is just starting?

Doesn't really matter to me, I don't own a single EA game now that NFS:MW is gone. That may change with Spore on PC, assuming EA's the publisher, but thankfully I know how to use http://www.mailinator.com

EA as a company is in the business of making money. Games are just the means they have to the end, but at no point in the last decade has anyone in their corporate office cared much about them. So long as there's a potential to maximize another stream of revenue, it will happen. My advice is that, seeing as they don't care about you, you shouldn't care about them. Wash your hands and step away, assuming EA had anything worth being there for in the first place. (Spore excepted.)

James