All of this, plus I think the games in the bundle are no longer supported? More so with the releases of Battlefield 4 and Sims 4 soon.
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EA made a good bundle because everyone thinks EA is garbage. I personally think Activision is garbage and they won't like ever make a CoD bundle for example. Or at least not with current management.
EA does make good games (more often than Activision for sure) and they do make good money. As long as they bring some value to what you pay for, I don't mind them. Games are actually fun and playable.
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The last CoD game I played was CoD2, so I can't really comment on the series' current state, but stating that EA puts value into their games after checking the Sims series prices I think your real problem with the CoD series are the players, and not the game developers.
I was forced to use Origin, the first time at BF3's beta, since that I can't say ANY good thing about it, all I can say is they moved their games into that thinking it will put an end to pirating those games, and instead they are still pirateable, BUT the difference is if you actually buy the game you are unable to enjoy it, because their system dies for days, or a whole week, at each game's release, you can't even get a normal download rate, while others pirate it with max. dowload speed, and can play it.
All of their systems feel like they are made by people raised without internet, or even PC access, so many illogical, unpractical "solutions" while they are taunting their loyal customers with day1DLCs, half-done games, and "we will patch it later" promises.
Examples:
Star Wars: The old republic: Utter failure, worst game launch ever, the game was unoptimised, they lied about minimum and recommended system req. just to get more people to buy it. After launch for 2-3 week you had to wait 3-5 days to get your ticket answered, most of those tickets was about unredeemable retail keys, and people asking why they can't run the game with the specs that according to EA can run the game. The game got patched into a "acceptable" state after 6-8 months of the release. The game is a B2P with monthly subscription model(was).
BF3: Must be run through origin, even tho when they released it origin was a html based failure, which couldn't handle that size of the community even tho they had the pre-order numbers, and the resources to make a decent authenticating system.
ME3: Multiplayer is a cheap$ss peer-to-peer based garbage, no reconnect option, no match search, nothing. You press "join" and play. If you don't get any good game, or you get DCed while in the game you get NOTHING, you can do NOTHING, even tho they know how unstable and retarded origin is they made it mandatory, and origin's and ME3's internal authentication systems are not synced properly resulting in most of the people are unable to play with their friends, and this problem is still not (never will be) solved.
The single player's "first" ending was completely half-done with so much illogical story fails they had to do it again, which took them a half year.
And this is just the top of the iceberg, I don't know what you don't like in Activision, but I highly doubt that they are anywhere near as bad as EA.
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+1
and not single cent is going to EA in this bundle. All the money is going to charity and humble tip. I believe that part of the creation of this bundle is to bring people to Origin. Once you have one game you'll want more so your Origin will worth more. It worked for valve when they gave Portal for free and it will work for EA. There is nothing bad in it and nothing you can do to stop it so just enjoy this very good deal.
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Agreed.. I mean cmon, they arent some charity organization.. Who doesnt chase after money? Would you rather have them give us all the dlcs instead? No right.. We'd rather get the base game n live with it =)
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Shut down the servers? What.. None of the Battlefield games servers are shut down.
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I don't play EA games, but that's stil what the're known for - closing down servers as soon as a new game is released. And that goes for their games in general, Fifa, NHL, Sims and so on.
If Battlefiends games are hosted by random users, then that's great. As I've understood it, it pretty much requires servers and multiplayer.
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They only do it to Multiplayer games which are very old and have very less users playing on it, so the money spent on those servers cannot be justified.
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I'm pretty sure that it doesn't apply to Battlefield games.
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Every battlefield game can still be played online afaik.
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EA has a very shitty reputation. This is just one of many ways they're trying to fix that. Not to mention BF4 is coming soon, so it is in their best interest to convince people they want it. Not to mention BF3 Premium is a good money maker for them. If you haven't noticed, all the games they released just happen to have a sequel coming out or is getting one soon, which tells me that they hope to generate new fans for the franchises and stuff. The only exception is Dead Space 3 I think, but that is probably just another tool to get people comfortable with Origin. This is just what I think and it doesn't bother me.
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"I believe they are rely on the bonuses and DLCs, Sims 3 and BF3 got many DLCs!"
So don't buy the DLC.
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EA are trying to get their reputation up again. The Humble Bundle together with the announcement that they will allow refunds within 24 hours after you starting a game bought in the last 7 days. Plus they will get some more Origin users and people that buy DLC/games/etc. Win-win for them really.
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Same for shortcuts: there is "The Ultimate Shortcut Bundle" that contains every other Shortcut DLC. Total amount to pay is $66.98. For 14 DLCs (in 2 packs). That's around $4.78 per DLC. And it's NOT on sale or anything.
Not to mention, that you don't actually need any of the shortcuts because you can unlock everything in game.
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Simple: They want to get their reputation up again (worst US company 2013...) by donating their share (which would be pretty small anyway because most people would pull the slider down for them) and want to get a lot of people into their BS Origin. Simple: Once someone has installed Origin and one game their they have no reason to not buy a second game... and that's what EA is counting on.
So: Get the Steam keys and ignore the Origin stuff... still a nice deal!
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Worst company of the year is stupid. It's just irrational gamer rage that did that.
Most gamers are extremely fickle and spiteful. Everyone loves to rage on EA. EA doesn't get a cent on this bundle, but if you truly hate EA, don't get the bundle at all. It makes you a hypocrite to buy their games (even if EA doesn't profit) , and call them shit at the same time. They're still good games right? Good enough to actually play? Yet people who do, still bash EA. Honestly, people like this need to just STFU. It's popular to bash EA, for shutting down servers or whatever. But they're also an innovator in the industry aren't they? They bring a lot to the industry at large, new tech and practices (both good and bad). Yet people still trash it. Again, boycot or STFU. (General statement, not particularly aimed at you Waaaghgasm)
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Never bought any DLC for BF3 except for Back to Karkand (came with pre order) but i'd still get around 13-22 kills a match on team deathmatch. Maybe its a console/pc difference, but paying money doesn't give you that much of an advantage. You could have bought all the DLC piece by piece or got the Premium upgrade, if you're less skilled than a person with no DLC, you're still gonna die. A lot.
I just don't see why EA gets so much universal hate from everyone. Its not like they force you to buy extra shit, they just offer it to the players that want more out of their games.
But I agree, the DLC for The Sims 3 is just overkill.
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The reason why everybody hates EA?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/09/why-ea-won-the-worst-company-in-america-award/
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Its not like they're the ONLY company that's out there doing stuff like this or making mistakes in general. Even Microsoft doesn't catch as much flak as EA has on a regular basis.
Online features get shut down all the time nowadays, lots of games have Day-1 DLC, ME3 had a VERY shitty ending, but they heard outcry over how bad it was & put out a free alternate ending a while later. Origin honestly sucks ass because its pretty much only EA games that can be there, but its not as horrific as others make it seem. Online passes are all over the damn place & smaller owned companies sadly get shut down far too often.
But I just..I dunno. They're still a big company, still about making money like any company. But they're just not that evil to me.
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Did you even read that article?
The guy who wrote it, defends EA saying it isn't the worst.
He also links to another guy saying it's not the worst.
Mass Effect Ending? one moment in a 3 game spanning story, and that makes the entire series crap (Granted. it is the ending, but they released free DLC)? It still innovated and brought us things we've never seen in a Triple-A title.
Early Server closing? I'm only aware of this occurring with all sports titles, and only 3 years after release. Most people move on to newer versions of the game by then, so online is either dead, or too small to justify keeping the very expensive servers in operation for a minuscule population.
Origin? It isn't that bad. Worst thing about it, is that it's mostly EA Games, and doesn't have as good deals as Steam generally. How does this make it "Horrible"? It's attempting Digital Distribution, just like steam did, except at a larger scale, earlier than Steam did. There are always problems. No one's really getting cheated by the service. (If you post links about users getting cheated, I'll post links about how EA gave out free games as compensation, and the many promotions where EA also gave out fee games "Just Because").
Oh dear god, EA wants to make money, bring out your pitch forks and torches! Welcome to the industry, everyone wants to make money. DLC is never exploitive. If you don't want it, don't get it. But if you do want it, by and large it's pretty decent.
Your name is appropriate for your comment.
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Yes ! I could of play through the whole story and gotten nearly more then $100 of games just for a dollar but nooo, they planned this whole scheme so we buy the 1st and second damn you ea!
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"What you think about Humble Origin Bundle?"
DUDE YOU'VE PAID LIKE 5$ AND YOU GET 8 GAMES AND 2 OF THOSE GAMES YOU'LL NEVER EVER GET CHEAPER. AND NOT TO MENTION THAT THERE WILL BE MORE BONUSES FOR THOSE 5$ YOU'VE PAIED. SO HOW COME DO YOU ARE UNHAPPY ABOUT THIS DEAL?
P.S.: Altough BF3 and Sims 3 have a lot of DLC you can still play the game without any of them. So for the 5$ you can buy 2 coffees or this awsome bundle.
P.S.2: Sorry for my CAPS
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For UK dwellers, this was the hottest deal I have ever seen on HotUKdeals: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/humble-origin-bundle-sims-3-battlefield-3-dead-space-3-more-ess-1631695
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Only bought the $1 us tier, my reflex are crappy and dont really have the time to polish them enought to enjoy Bf3
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Ultimate shortcut bundle isn't actually any new content, so you can't really even count that in the price of the DLC.
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Even though they charge $20 for the sims 3 dlc, I still appreciate them making the bundle. I mean you can even give them as much as you can or just a dollar, hell if you think ea is doing this as a way to get more money, then either don't buy the bundle, or don't buy the dlc if you like the games.
I would say just pay a dollar or the minimum amount but, it all goes to charity so really if you did that just because of your hate for ea, you wouldn't really be getting back at them
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I love your logic. A bit of "Screw EA", with the hypocrisy of "I'll still play your games though!". EA is so crap right? But man, Mirror's Edge is a damn good game, huh? You see what EA did with all that crap DLC for Battlefield? But I'm totally going to play BF3, cause it's awesome!
Screw your hypocrisy. Your "At least they do not get money from me...", meanwhile your getting the games and playing them. aaaaand EA is the as---les in this situation? Seems to me, you're the as---le.
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EA rely on DLCs as other companies, for example-Saint's row 3, it has a lot of DLCs and what? Microsoft is chasing for money, because of its shitty XBOX One, XBOX 360 was much better.
If you don't want to pay for Sims 3 DLCs, just download them, its easy. What do you have about BF3? Its an excellent game, and it has only one big DLC-"Premium", if you think that it is interesting to play with all weapons unlocked then go ahead, you can call it a DLC, but it is not, you can unlock everything by just playing.
Humble Origin Bundle is awesome, it is a way you can pay not only EA but you can pay humble bundle tip and charity.
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I think everyone here know that EA is a company that only chasing after money.
I believe they are rely on the bonuses and DLCs, Sims 3 and BF3 got many DLCs!
Sims 3 = 20 DLCs and everyone of them is about 15-40$.
About BF3, I let the image speak for me:
http://i.imgur.com/tNZWGzV.png
Of course it is not the only reason, just only one of many.
What you think about Humble Origin Bundle?
Sorry if my English is not the best, English is not my native language.
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