I had one of those chairs at a crappy call centre job (for a big American corporation). Didn't make it any more bearable and I had no idea they were so expensive. Paying more than minimum wage would have been much more welcome. Reply+3
"That game didn't lose money," he says. "So I don't know how it could contribute to the downfall."
Opportunity cost; the money spent on making a half-arsed, 'me too', 'merica fuck yeah! FPS could have been spent on something that would have turned a good profit or established a new IP with some longevity. Reply+2
Fuckin' magnets etc. BTW the mandate-free Tories have have already destroyed the NHS as we know it (i.e. opening it to private profit making), although you wouldn't know from mainstream press coverage which is more interested in lionising a dead woman who did more than anyone to move Britain toward a dog-eat-dog capitalist society where people have to beg for their lives like this. Reply+7
Version numbers are arbitrary in terms of what exactly they represent, however 1.0 is almost universally recognised as signifying a fully working product tested to a reasonable degree and ready for end-users. 1.7 may be justifiable, but the 1.0 wasn't. Reply+1
@dogmanstaruk No it isn't. Private businesses can do what they want. Why do companies like Valve behave differently to EA? Because they can, they're not beholden to shareholders and they can say "that's enough profit" or "let's give away something for free", or "let's not put out a sequel this year and work harder on it". The NHS is not profit driven but will be after April the 1st when the Tories abolish it and with it this countries' single greatest post-war achievement. Reply0
EA will always be awful while they are a public company. Trying to show you've made more profit 4 times a year every year by any means necessary is not conducive to making good games or being customer friendly. Best you can hope for is that they don't buy out any more decent studios and that the odd good game slips out without being 'monetised' and 'market tested' to death. Reply+2
@wayn3h some models were affected by a manufacturing defect which caused the wi-fi signal to be weak and unreliable. I'm not sure how prevalent it was, but it caused a fair amount of negative buzz in the tech press immediately after the launch. Reply+1
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