What do you think of EA?, For personal research, please no spamming. Options

[Deathrider1991]

This is a poll purely for my own research on a subject of companies. Please, I beg you, do not flame this thread. If you do, I'll ask a mod to close it and delete flaming posts. If any moderators truly have a problem with this thread, then just delete it. Please vote.

This post has been edited by Team Black: Mar 6 2009, 04:10 PM

[Clazzy]

Yeah, however, some companies support their fans and communities more than others. And Westwood was one that (or at least it seems so to me) supported it's fans, unlike EA (I remember checking some petition threads for a 1.03 patch for The First Decade on the EA forums - hundreds of forum members signed it and our "friends" at EA didn't even look at the thread).

For example, I have to buy multiple copies of some games if I want to play them in LAN between the two computers I have in my house. However, some games' developers/publishers decide to make it possible to install and play the game on multiple PCs. A quote from the C&C95 readme:


I think Deathrider could have put his new poll to this thread instead of making multiple new topics..

Most games that had two discs could play online or on a LAN at the same time back in the day. In fact, it was more or less standard practice until ten years ago or so. Once CD burners became cheap and widely available along with faster internet, companies got scared that games could be copied very easily.

Everyone glosses over the fact that WW also never released any modding tools for any of their games. In fact, the only official piece of software was modified from a community-created piece of software and this wasn't really even done by WW. At the end of it, 90% of you weren't around when WW was still going, you're just going on second-hand knowledge. Besides, what are Petroglyph doing right now I ask? Since they're effectively WW with a different name, surely they're the natural evolution of WW as they once were?

[Rampastring]

Besides, what are Petroglyph doing right now I ask? Since they're effectively WW with a different name, surely they're the natural evolution of WW as they once were?

Petroglyph is a whole different company.. while it has some Westwood people left, most of the old WW employees have retired or moved into other companies (for example, Adam Isgreen and some other old WW employees just retired from Petroglyph and established a new company named "Jet Set Games").

I however still like Petroglyph's games, they just feel a bit rushed. Also, while Universe at War came with only one disc, I have the same copy installed on multiple computers and I can play LAN between them without any cd-key checks or anything other annoyances.. so they get my respect. Not only because of that, but the Petroglyph employees post in their forums quite often and support their community.

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Mar 7 2009, 06:55 AM