DarthSublimitas Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 It truly is amazing how many people hate EA. You think they'd try to fix their image or something rather than continuously piss off their customer base. and now my friends for your viewing pleasure, I present: EA = Nickle and Dime and Nickle and Dime Forbe’s Paul Tassi writes, “I’ve been covering hate of EA for quite a while now, and understand why their brand is so despised among gamers. They have [a] habit of buying beloved gaming companies and either summarily executing them, or corrupting them to the point where they’re almost unrecognizable. Most recently, fans mourned the apparent loss of Bioware. The genius [developer] was behind Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, but the way newer titles like The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3 have been handled since EA took over has caused fans to lose faith. EA is at the forefront of some of the most annoying practices in the industry to date, such as restrictive DRM, seemingly abusive DLC and appearing to trade creativity for cash.” http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/67942420.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostvein Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 This? Not a bad start, needs moar 1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossos Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Things are not looking good for ERTS stock holders http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ERTS Down 40 cents? That's the travesty? Have you seen what global stocks have done in the past 3 days? You don't know what you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lentWolf Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Unless the database becomes corrupted or damaged beyond repair. This can happen when backups are not performed or not cross-checked using hashes. But we will see just what the end will be. Could be good, BW looses all our stuff, we quit and go play another game and EA/BW out 3mil dollars - I couldn't be happier Agreed, but my thinking is that, since all of our inventory items and credits were still available after the 4hr patch - and guild repair funds were also available. So surely nothing was corrupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostvein Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 how bout this one? http://www.trendrabbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/George-Lucas-gift-James-Cameron-Titanic.jpg lol, never saw that before now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeisterKurosaki Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) I wonder if BW has a QA team? I would hope they would have a large enough team to handle the amount of testing that is required. The sad thing is I bet BW relied on community testing rather than having robust QA processes in place. BW might say ... "we will learn from our mistakes" ..."we will do better" .... in the end when you release something without a proper release plan, risk analysis and QA you're going to end up with situations like this over and over again. Edited April 13, 2012 by MeisterKurosaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaac Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Things are not looking good for EA stock holders http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA look again http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA&reco=1 EDIT: I posted this because the date stamp on the one listed was from december 19th Edited April 13, 2012 by Blaac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanogee Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Where are all the funny TORtanic pictures with 1.2 on the side? Cmon people, you are better then this. http://postimage.org/image/cr2s1j4wv/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitear Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) THE GUILD BANKS http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kK18CpDhHKM/SOIWpyc8WsI/AAAAAAAABbc/phzoYQuIzs4/s400/All+Your+Banks+Are+Belong+To+Us.jpg ^ they took them! Edited April 13, 2012 by Solitear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celebrei Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Good thing I didn't put anything in my guild's bank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikalonius Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I wonder if BW has a QA team? I would hope they would have a large enough team to handle the amount of testing that is required. The sad thing is I bet BW relied on community testing rather than having robust QA processes in place. BW might say ... "we will learn from our mistakes" ..."we will do better" .... in the end when you release something without a proper release plan, risk analysis and QA you're going to end up with situations like this over and over again. Also, from what i understand, BioWare didn't allow cloning of characters into the test server. They'd probably have gotten a whole lot more participation in testing if they would have allowed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JovethGonzalez Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Oh no... You mean all that money I spent on our guild bank is gone!? You have got to be kidding me... Rest assured that after this unscheduled maintenance, your guild bank (and everything in it) will return to its normal state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arox Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 i hope i get all my money back bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowmagus Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Holy crap....yellow words ^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silent-sniper Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 oh bioware, thou does make me laugh, 12 days too late I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APhantasm Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Things are not looking good for EA stock holders http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA Wrong stock ticker. Don't know why but it was changed from ERTS to EA. Apparently sometime back. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA And apparently it is dropping. BW taking the server downs is not helping EA's stocks. Edited April 13, 2012 by APhantasm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keta Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 BW would need to do a rollback, or find some way to find the data and refund your guild the $18M. Then again, they never rolled back Valor from the Ilum debacle, so who knows? It's quite possible that the 1.2a patch set some items to invisible to players instead of allowing greater access to them for the in game CSR folks. If that's the case, undoing that bit of code then redoing it (better this time) shouldn't affect what was in the bank or anything else that occurred in the short time the mischievous 1.2a patch saw the light of day. But either way ... it's been an entertaining sojourn for me in a sleepless night. Back to bed where i belong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellFlame Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 This? more like This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkazarr Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Servers down ? Gonna give me time to level my toon on Hello Kitty Online ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celwinn Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Rest assured that after this unscheduled maintenance, your guild bank (and everything in it) will return to its normal state. That's good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxside Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I want my party bomb back! :'< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrakudah Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 more like This I LOLed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahkronn Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Wrong stock ticker. Don't know why but it was changed from ERTS to EA. Apparently sometime back. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EA Yeah, I had the old bookmark. Corrected it faster than you could quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XadennX Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 more like This rofl coffee all over kb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poulpatine Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 The best ! http://imgur.com/a/rEJ4q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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