5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You

A few things:

1st. EA is a piece of s**t. Especially recently with the PC game entitled Spore. if you have not heard about the controversy, well where to begin.

First, the game was supposed to be revolutionary in its design. Basically the idea was that you are God and you create an animal organism that evolves through different stages. For instance, from a single celled organism to multigalatic (if that is even a word) conquerer. Sounds sweet right? Well, the game is over before you start. I think it was made for children under 5. Its mind bogoling easy and you're already in space in about 5 hours. You miss like half of the evolutionary stages!! The game itself takes about maybe 8-10 hours to complete, then it is just repetition.


Second, EA decided to stick you with a device that comes in the install disk that never comes off of your computer! That's right, its called DRM and once you install the game onto your computer you can only install it two more times else where. So for 50 dollars EA sells you a rental game that you can only install 3 times. I fucked up the first time because Vista is a piece of crap. so now if I ever buy a new computer and later pull Spore off the shelf to install it, I better get it right because I only have one install left before I have to go out and buy a new one. s**t.. f*****g EA.


Now for game reviews. I went out and bought Assassins Creed because it had amazing reviews (in game informer magazine). I found the game to be crap. It was boring. Maybe it was just me, but the only thing I found that was fun was trying to kill my self by falling off various buildings and missing the landing platforms. Now I am very skeptic about buying games based on reviews by larger magazines. Its sometimes better to go buy Amazons user reviews.

i remember the COD2 thing and i was pissed, but doesn't blizzard ALREADY have my username, password, and credit card number? you assume that this "house maid" is less trustworthy than the guys with my cc number.

what ea did with the nfl was total bullshit. their games were pretty good and it was still better than espn 2k5 but the monopolizing just made them control the gamers completely. i refuse to buy any of their garbage they make today.

stop the fanboy bullshit everyone.

Wow, I finally found the most bias comment in humanity. Either bendybuddy works for microsoft or his parents were killed by sony employees. Either way his long rant was a load of bias bullshit that was opinion stated like fact. I don't know if he or hardcore 360 owners are aware but... some people ACTUALLY DON'T LIKE HALO. Yeah I know... hard to believe right? All this time you thought everyone universally thought halo was anywhere near above average but I don't mind being the first to say.... Halo is.... alright. Nothing more.

And to complain a company being "scammiest" while raving about your support for microsoft, who makes you pay for everything from playing online to taking a s**t, is pretty f*****g retarded. So nice rant, just wanted to point out how retardedly hypocritical it was.

Good job! You should start up a website with more interesting s**t you have to say. A good name for it would be www. facts that aren't really facts at all .com or maybe www. ravings of a bias moron .com

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and hopefully killzone 2 will be awesome :)

the problem with resitance was that, all though a good game, it was the ONLY good game for its system... therefore effectively killing your "Halo Killer"

Whereas Halo never recieved any hype. I dunno where you get your facts, but every fan of Sony ahs agreed that their were problems with Killzone. Sony has taken all of these on board for Killzon 2. That is what we are praising as a the Halo Killer - well, the other one besides Resistance : Fall of Man.

Nice rant, Bendy. Sony's been using fake videos to hype their products for years.

I don't think Killzone sucked that badly, but it certainly wasn't worth the hype. It was exceptionally mediocre as far as FPS's go, and I don't understand why Sony and its fans are still praising the franchise as the great white hope, or "Halo killer."

I think they should have put Killzone 2 at the top.
They tried to pass off bullshit graphics at E3 three years in a row!
f**k that stupid game.
the first one blew chocolate puffballs, (similar to Cocoa Puffs, like a walmart brand) in comparison to any first person shooter ever made on a console.
The thing is, Sony always has been and always will be the scammiest fucks in the world.
Everyone who takes the time to study knows Blu-Ray's only real advantages over HD-DVD was movie selection, and about 50 gigs of storage space. But when you can cram about 400 gigs on one disc, having 50 more is a little not so important, especially when comparing the price point.
I wish Microsoft knew how to use Jedi Mind Tricks on companies like Sony does. If we were to look at it in a similar comparison (PS3 VS. 360), since Xbox has MOST of the good games right now, we should only have to pay $50 bucks for a PS3, just like we only pay $50 bucks for a Xbox 360 HD-DVD player.
Now I don't agree with that, but it is interesting to see HD-DVD with about 500 titles compared to the thousands in the Blu-Ray library just get shafted because Sony started some monopoly act a few years ago to get just about everyone pro-Blu-Ray before HD-DVD was even had a fighting chance.

The PS3 is exactly like HD-DVD, a pathetic library in comparison to the competition.
Now, with time some great games will come to the PS3, but HD-DVD started to get some really good deals with Paramount, Dreamworks, and quite a few titles were appearing in both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats.

Hmm, sounds like the console war doesn't it?
I think it would be fucked up if we were to just shut all PS3 assembly down just because it has failed to deliver in most of the ways it was expected to. When I look at the PS3, I don't feel waves of rage build up inside, instead I feel like a coach trying to get one of my teammates to try harder, and I know they have potential, but to just kick them off the team without seeing what they are really capable of is more than fucked up. It is grounds for an earful of angry mothers. We should be those mothers saying "What the f**k?" Doesn't everyone/thing deserve a chance?

Anyway, this isn't fair, no matter what company it happens to, and that my friends, is why you shouldn't always "nip it in the bud"

@Hellblade:
That happens more often indeed, they did the same with Frontlines: Fuel of War. That game had áwesome potential, but was totally fracked over by the developers because they apperantly had a gun against there head for releasing the game on the launch-date. The game however, looked liked a beta-test version (not even óut of beta) and now barely anyone plays it. Such a shame.

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The Blizzard thing is right on the money. My dad and I both play World of Warcraft with separate accounts (so we can play together). We use all the same add-ons and all are game legal (meaning no leveling or gold producing software). He got banned out of the blue for using an "illegal add-on". When he called Blizzard to ask what add-on so he could delete it and reactivate his account, they refused to tell him! They would reinstate his account in 72 hours, but since he didn't know which add-on was supposedly the culprit, he couldn't delete it. If Blizzard "caught" him again, they'd ban him permanently...for an add-on which was game legal! So, basically after having spent $30 for the original WoW disc, $60 for the expansion pack ($30 per each of our accounts) and $30 a month for nearly a year in subscription fees, Blizzard can ban you for no reason because they feel like it.

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there's another thing that game companies like to do: selling unfinished barely-out-of-beta-version games, and waiting for gamers to do the beta testing, report bugs and so on. only then do they correct mistakes and spit out 15 patches in a week

great example is microsoft's flight simulator X, which was barely playable even on the most badass machines, full of visual glitches, until SP1 came out and suddenly, it works great.

if had purchased the game, instead of downloading a torrent, i'd be very pissed of for the fact that i'm actually giving money to do someone else's work.

also, i can't believe someone gives real money to get golden coins or whatever they use as currency in WoW...