So, as just about everyone expected, Blizzard is still completely out of touch. The arrogance that they display when they claim to know better than I do how I should enjoy their game (were I to ever actually buy and play it, which at this point is something very unlikely to happen, precisely because of this stubborn hubris on their part) is still ( Read more... )

What a dumbass.

No. No, I won't "learn to love" always online. It will never happen. Simple as that.

This new game is going to suck so incredibly hard, of that I have not the slightest doubt. Seriously the fact that there's even a question at all of "Will it have single-player?" is terrible, even if that question ends up being a reluctant "yes" on the part of EA. And the fact that it's going to be a F2P game... ugh. Just ugh...

"'We need to ( Read more... )

Based only on that headline, I was going to say something like "Well, that's a good sign, I guess." But then I read the actual article. Why couldn't John Riccitiello have taken this Frank Gibeau asshole with him when he left? *sad/mad face ( Read more... )

CEOs of increasingly shitty game companies stepping down due to financial losses by their companies? This is the beginnings of a trend that I could totally get behind. The only thing that remains to be seen is if this is a good trend (i.e. the successor comes in and realizes that they need to stop doing the stupid stuff that lost them all that ( Read more... )

No shit. And it still could if they'd stop being assholes about it and just get rid of the stupid DRM.

"but it conflicted with the vision the developer had for the game." Their vision was to have a broken game that failed to work at all on launch and which a lot of people, such as myself, still refuse to buy thanks to the DRM, huh? Yeah, that's ( Read more... )

A sort of catchall article describing the "unmitigated disaster" that is the new SimCity game. Seriously, if I were in the shoes of the people who bought SimCity, I wouldn't want a free other game. I would want the game I bought to work, no more and no less. But then, I didn't buy SimCity in the first place, precisely because I knew it had the ( Read more... )

"Offline mode 'not possible'" == "buying the game 'not possible'" as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, SimCity has become the new Diablo III for me, i.e. a game that I almost assuredly would have bought, had it not been buried in the unnecessary fecal matter that is an always-online connection requirement. Maybe I should give it its own tag or ( Read more... )

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/03/08/ea-employee-chastizes-company-over-simcity-in-public-letter/Read more... )

No. Just no.

I've said this before, I am saying it right now, and I most assuredly will say it again in the future: not every single game nor every single genre of game needs multiplayer, "asynchronous" or otherwise. They do not need "social features/tools." They don't need online connectivity of any sort whatsoever. Those that do have these ( Read more... )