They still sell Sim City?

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Remember back when EA had sensible approaches to development?

Me neither.

Actually I do, but then again I still have my old Atari 1040 STe under my TV.

EA used to be an incredible publisher of games waaaaay back. Its only in the early 00's they went down the proverbial shit hole.

Edit: fuck me thats more than a decade ago.

[Marc v4.0]

Everything I've heard about the game, from people who have managed to actually get in and play it, has been very positive. The gameplay sucks you in, it looks great, etc.

There's just that giant, pulsating elephant in the room.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

EA: Ruin Everything!

The game is a shitstorm with a nice candy colored shell. The biggest problem here is beyond the unstable connection, implementing a system in-game that practically encourages fucking each other over for the sake of fucking each other over, disabling core game elements (cheetah mode, no disasters, no terraforming etc.) for absolutely no reason at all, the list goes on. Here's the gipper:

You want a refund? Sure, you can ask for one. But getting a refund is up to EA's discretion. Actually, don't even bother asking. We'll ban your ass.

And Cliff Bleszinksi wonders why people hate EA but love valve. Hrmm. Iono because valve doesn't pull this epic level bullshit over and over and over! Fuckin shitstain bootlick.

[Ramary]

I don't know, even if servers were peachy, all the micro-transaction plans and the cripplingly small city size would still have me declare the game to be not worth playing.

The server bullshit just makes it much easier to say the product is crap.

[Jagos]

I mean... They should have learned from Spore but that didn't work.

They could have learned from Dragon Age and the BS with the DLC but that didn't phase them.

They pulled out some spectacular ass-pulling fucktarded bullshit to go above and beyond the Call of Duty to show people in one fell swoop why DRM sucks, piracy doesn't hurt as much as bad reviews and there's a reason why they're the #1 hated company above and beyond Bank of America.

And to make this worse, EA KNEW ABOUT THIS BEFORE THEY RELEASED THE GAME AND DID IT ANYWAY!

Wow...

[Nique]

I just wanted to play a prettier, more granular version of Sim city 2000.

Maybe I should just play Sim City 2000.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Grandmaster_Skweeb

EA: Ruin Everything!

The game is a shitstorm with a nice candy colored shell. The biggest problem here is beyond the unstable connection, implementing a system in-game that practically encourages fucking each other over for the sake of fucking each other over, disabling core game elements (cheetah mode, no disasters, no terraforming etc.) for absolutely no reason at all, the list goes on. Here's the gipper:

You want a refund? Sure, you can ask for one. But getting a refund is up to EA's discretion. Actually, don't even bother asking. We'll ban your ass.

And Cliff Bleszinksi wonders why people hate EA but love valve. Hrmm. Iono because valve doesn't pull this epic level bullshit over and over and over! Fuckin shitstain bootlick.

That link is horribly incorrect. They aren't threatening to ban you for asking for refunds, they are telling you that they will ban your account if you issue a charge-back through your bank.

You see, charge backs are when the bank or credit company FORCES the company you bought the product from to give you your money back, and then charges them extra for processing. It is against the TOS of most DD platforms because rampant charge-backs can cause a credit company or bank to refuse all payment to them in the future, and if you buy the physical product you also get to keep it.

Steam's TOS allows them to lock your account, as well, if you issue a charge-back, but they typically just remove the item from your account and lock you from new purchases for a time period.

Then again, if EA would just GIVE refunds when requested, like they should anyway, this could be avoided. A great number of the charge-backs are coming from Origin accounts with only Sim City, as well.

To make matters worse they are refusing refunds in some places, like the UK and Australia, that have Consumer Protection LAWS that make them obligated to give the refund at risk of being fined or even banned from operating their business in the country.


EDIT: Was actually thinking of a different chat log, nvm

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I can't even remember who I had it with but I swear somebody on NPF was telling me that I shouldn't think EA is evil and will continue to be evil in everything they do because of what they did in the past and here we are.
With EA kind of continuing to be evil.
With no sign of it stopping.
With Karesh still saying
EA IS KIND OF SORT OF PRETTY MUCH THE DEVIL GUYS

[lazy man]

What happened to that thing where EA published Dead Space and Mirror's Edge? You know, when they were going to try and take some risks for once and not just make diluted crap for the masses? When they actually seemed a bit decent for a little while?

Oh, wait, Dead Space went Gears of War on us and Mirror's Edge hasn't popped up in years. Yep, guess Karesh is right.

[Arcanum]

I've seen a lot of posts on reddit about people getting refunds, and a fuck-ton of reposts of that "gonna get banned for threatening a credit card charge back" thread, but not a whole lot of individual/unique "ea wouldn't give me a refund" posts. So yeah, take that how you will.

I agree that EA is literally satan's dick, and that this whole debacle is unacceptable. Still, I have friend who bought the game (and were big fans of previous SimCities) and absolutely love the game (when they are able to play it). So basically what I'm saying is apparently the game itself is pretty great, but everything involving EA is terrible.