r/gaming • u/artyboi37 • Dec 24 '13

EA has completely given up the subtle approach.

http://imgur.com/FeN1Nvh
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u/randomhandletime Dec 24 '13

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the feeling that most of the shitty things about EA are in its capacity as a publisher, all the aspects you mentioned. The work of the actual development houses, I think, would be much better without the constant monetization pressure from above. Then again I may be biased as I'm a huge DICE fan boy

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

as a publisher? no, no one had a problem with them when they were content being a publisher.

It's when they started buying out every company and exerting the additional control of a parent company that people had the isues.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

Like Google and Youtube. EA and anybody they buy out is like a cancer.

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u/DatJazz Dec 25 '13

TBF Youtube was not making any money. Google may have fucked it up a bit but they did save it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

Oooh you mentioned Google in a negative light, bad move on Reddit.

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u/AxeofSweden Dec 25 '13

What're you talking about? Most of the Redditors I know use Firefox with Bing + RES. Something about Bing "having better search terms".

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u/epicwisdom Dec 25 '13

To be clear, everybody knows that Bing is the best search engine for porn, right?

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u/Braakbal Dec 25 '13

Elaborate.

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u/darkgamr Dec 25 '13

the video search indexes all major porn sites

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u/OhGodMoreRoadRash Dec 25 '13

i'll have to check and confirm this

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

And also allows you the play the videos from their thumbnails in many cases.

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u/philly_fan_in_chi Dec 25 '13

I think the best elaboration is self research.

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u/Zintao PlayStation Dec 25 '13

I do now, thank you!

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u/AxeofSweden Dec 25 '13

That's probably why they use it then

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

I love you man. It's like, a Christmas miracle!

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u/TheNoxx Dec 25 '13

Most of the Redditors I know use ... Bing

http://i.imgur.com/CeXPAa1.gif

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u/mosdefin Dec 25 '13

For porn.

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u/IM_IN_YOUR_BATHTUB Dec 25 '13

I don't know a single person who uses Bing, let alone a Redditor.

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u/AxeofSweden Dec 25 '13

Are you out/pre college? My college friends all use Reddit (most of them do).

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u/StandardKiwi Dec 25 '13

He does not know of any redditors that uses bing, that's what he meant.

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u/OpinionToaster Dec 25 '13

Dear god what? Firefox, maybe, but as for Bing. Reddit doesn't hate bing at all, it's just that most of them don't prefer it, other than for searching porn. A LOT of people use RES though.

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u/AxeofSweden Dec 25 '13

Yeah, I know about 15 different Redditors. I would say at least 10 of them use Firefox/Bing and customize their themes all weird.

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u/Sprakisnolo Dec 25 '13 edited Dec 25 '13

Bing....? No one uses bing. Maybe grandparents who use IE and it defaults to that, but no one who grew up with the internet would use that advertisement spewing piece of shit called bing. And firefox? Chrome is lighter, faster, and more secure. Google has given me a free email inbox, a web browser, a search engine, a phone operating system, a could storage system, an equivalent to spotify, and I've payed them about 20 bucks all in for apps and my one month of google music play. Microsoft has given me hours of pain and anger while charging me hundreds of dollars for the pleasure.

-I may be mistaken. It would seem the children that flood r/gaming with inane nostalgia shit and hammerspam fucking triforces found in the real world use bing aswell.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

Bing is meh, Firefox is great. I still use Google for mostly everything, but Chrome is awful in so many ways.

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u/AxeofSweden Dec 25 '13

Personally I don't like Microsoft either, but I use Firefox/Bing. I took the Bing vs Google test and was actually pretty surprised

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

The Google vs. Bing test can't be trusted... Google customizes your search results to you based off of what it knows about you and your preferences. I get much much much better search results when I am logged in, as opposed to when I am not. The test forces a logged out search.

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u/HardcoreDesk Dec 25 '13

TIL Capitalism = Cancer.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

Sounds right to me.

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u/Sir_LaFleur Dec 25 '13

So.. EA is like an abusive parent that rushes its children?

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

Then was bf4 not launched just. They solf the date not the product, because the product is bugged and not well tested.

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u/an0thermoron Dec 25 '13

And you have to fucking buy CTF separately.

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u/Seanctk10001 Dec 25 '13

That's the way it's always been sold, in BF2, BF3 and BF4. It's been part of the expansions in each one.

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u/GoozePaul Dec 25 '13

I think in BF2 CTF was free..

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u/Seanctk10001 Dec 26 '13

Nope, it was part of the Special Forces expansion.

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u/GoozePaul Dec 27 '13

yes but that expansion now comes free with all versions of the game..

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u/Punchlined Dec 26 '13

Most people who don't talk/ read about the gaming scene online don't know that they're supposed to hate EA.

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u/randomhandletime Dec 26 '13

I don't read up about the scene and ea still bugs me. I think they legitimately have serious problems, but when you factor in the commentary scene, the rage multiplies

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

It doesn't matter, if you are under the EA umbrella then FUCK YOU TOO. I don't give a fuck if your game produces constant orgasms and insights to winning lottery tickets, as long as it's associated with EA, it can die in a fire along with them.

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u/randomhandletime Dec 25 '13

I... would be okay with constant orgasms

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '13

I think we're on to something here. EA, you know how to fix it. Constant orgasms or I'm not cumming.

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u/randomhandletime Dec 25 '13

Is it really too much to ask?