Stop complaining about EA!

[TMA_1]

geesh,

So many people think they have a right to say that games made by Westwood, under control of EA should not be bought. They say that what Westwood does is horrible to the gamers and they dont care about the gamers at all. Thats the whole point! no company truly cares about the gamers personally, only about what people like. its a business! The whole point is to make money for themselves or their family. They try to make the games fun so that you will buy them. If you dont like how Westwood has changed, well it has grown. When companies grow, they tend to want to try to make more money. They dont give a flying crap about us. They only care about making money off of us. Since when does a mega million dollar company have to be compassionate? geesh you guys, you who complain sound like 3 year olds. They are in the business to make money, you either buy the games or not. Why complain? it is like complaining to satan for being such a bad guy. its his nature! Duh... its so dumb.lol

Rants... gotta love em, or hate them.lol :)

[exatreide]

EA can burn slowly over a fire in the pits of hell. as demons smother it in honey and alow fire ants to feast on its charred flesh.

its screems are like the sounds of angles. so sweet....

well thats my feelings on Ea....

[rogue1896]

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[Digital Guerrilla]

You should take your own advice and stop complaining.

[TMA_1]

hehe no way, I have a reason to complain. ;)

[rogue1896]

well just b/c you have a reason doesn't mean you should. if you have a reason to kill someone would you? but personally i don't mind yer bitchin ;D ;) it keeps things interesting to say the least.

[Khan]

I agree with TMA there is to much bitchin' on this site. I mean a little bit that's OK but too many people who are starting threads just to bitch about westwood, blizzard or EA just because their favourite game has been delayed. The one thing you have to remember is that they are multinational companies so first and foremost on their to do list is to make money.

[Edric O]

Corporations are my enemy. They represent the most vile sort of corruption and overwhelming greed created by the evil of capitalism.

[Terror]

hmmm still, EA can change... they did bring some good games like battlefield 1942, and emperor (not that they created those ofcourse) but it's mainly westwoods support that bothers me

[Anathema]

Lol TMA, you must be really bored if you bring up something that has been discussed a million times over. ;)

Take a look at Blizzard. They haven't released as many games as WW did, but they keep supporting them for years. Starcraft is still one of the most frequently played RTS games of the world, and it still earns them a profit. You can't say though, that it is because they love you so much.

Point is, that when you buy a WW / EA product, you know that you risk being screwed over in the future.

[Cyborg]

EA isn't a game producer, it's a global publishment network that publishes computer games.

I agree that blizzard(my fav gameproducer company) make the best games because they actually work on them and lay their souls into the work to give the gamers what they really want. They also support the games a very long time after they are released.

Westwood stopped quite early to support emperor and they have had trouble with some fiascoes(renegade?) lately. What they need to do is to stay on hold and develop some new creative ideas. Westwood have made many very good games too, don't forget that.

[DukeLeto]

roflmao! If I hear ONE MORE TIME that Blizzard games are free of bugs, I'll hurl! Lets look at the Bugs in StarCraft ALONE, shall we?

1. Flying Drone bug (Order a drone to build an extracter, and just as the Drone gets on top of the Extractor to morph, do something to get below 50 minerals. The Drone will stay on top of the geyser. Voila, flying drone.)

2. The ability to permantly cloak Zerg ground units with a Protoss ally. (Have him build an Arbiter, move it over your burrowed units, move it away, and unburrow. Voila!)

3. Ever had an SCV build itself into a corner? I.E. between 4 supply depots, between a building and a cliff, etc? Happens a lot, doesn't it?

4. An SCV/Drone/Probe can move THROUGH UNITS. Order it to a mineral patch on the other side of a passageway clumped with units, either yours or the enemies. They'll move out of the way for it!

And then there's the balance problems, which I won't even try to mension all of here. EG, one Zealot can kill 4 marines.

Oh, and don't say Blizzard releases more patches, lol. WC2 only got ONE PATCH. ::) And they stopped patching SC a year ago. And WC3 hasn't been patched in months.

Wake up, people!

[Dude_Doc]

But those games can be played tons of times! I bought RA2, played it for a week, and then turned to StarCraft again. So, why does Westwood do this Generals? That's unnessesary, when they can satisfy every fan there is by making Command and Conquer 3: Tiberian Twilight with the same engine!!! Why the hell make some "new universe", can't they just finish one serie, and then begin on something new???

[Cyborg]

roflmao! If I hear ONE MORE TIME that Blizzard games are free of bugs, I'll hurl! Lets look at the Bugs in StarCraft ALONE, shall we?

1. Flying Drone bug (Order a drone to build an extracter, and just as the Drone gets on top of the Extractor to morph, do something to get below 50 minerals. The Drone will stay on top of the geyser. Voila, flying drone.)

2. The ability to permantly cloak Zerg ground units with a Protoss ally. (Have him build an Arbiter, move it over your burrowed units, move it away, and unburrow. Voila!)

3. Ever had an SCV build itself into a corner? I.E. between 4 supply depots, between a building and a cliff, etc? Happens a lot, doesn't it?

4. An SCV/Drone/Probe can move THROUGH UNITS. Order it to a mineral patch on the other side of a passageway clumped with units, either yours or the enemies. They'll move out of the way for it!

And then there's the balance problems, which I won't even try to mension all of here. EG, one Zealot can kill 4 marines.

Oh, and don't say Blizzard releases more patches, lol. WC2 only got ONE PATCH. ::) And they stopped patching SC a year ago. And WC3 hasn't been patched in months.

Wake up, people!

Who said that starcraft games were free of bugs? Well, not me because I know that no game that exist is free of bugs.

Heh, well starcraft had 3 bugs(that you can mention. It may have more). I haven't noticed the arbiter->zerg ground units but, nor have i seen the zerg->flying drone thing either. I don't say that they don't exist, though. They are just not so extremely occasional.

When it comes to the terran scv who builds himself stuck, well hehe, that isn't a realy bug... It's your fault if you build yourself stuck.

And they stopped patching SC a year ago

I call that very good support when thinking of they released starcraft in 1998... That means 3 years of support(which is very, very good).

Imo, Blizzard rocks and owns ;D

[Terror]

roflmao! If I hear ONE MORE TIME that Blizzard games are free of bugs, I'll hurl! Lets look at the Bugs in StarCraft ALONE, shall we?

1. Flying Drone bug (Order a drone to build an extracter, and just as the Drone gets on top of the Extractor to morph, do something to get below 50 minerals. The Drone will stay on top of the geyser. Voila, flying drone.)

2. The ability to permantly cloak Zerg ground units with a Protoss ally. (Have him build an Arbiter, move it over your burrowed units, move it away, and unburrow. Voila!)

3. Ever had an SCV build itself into a corner? I.E. between 4 supply depots, between a building and a cliff, etc? Happens a lot, doesn't it?

4. An SCV/Drone/Probe can move THROUGH UNITS. Order it to a mineral patch on the other side of a passageway clumped with units, either yours or the enemies. They'll move out of the way for it!

And then there's the balance problems, which I won't even try to mension all of here. EG, one Zealot can kill 4 marines.

Oh, and don't say Blizzard releases more patches, lol. WC2 only got ONE PATCH. ::) And they stopped patching SC a year ago. And WC3 hasn't been patched in months.

Wake up, people!

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don't you have anything better to do than complain? and btw, 4 marines rule 1 zealot, no matter what. if you complain about balancing than you must be realy stupid, cuz terrans have FIREBATS to solve the zealot problem... god you're dumb. as for the bugs, they either have been fixed, or just don't happen in normal games.. there are no crashes or whatsoever.

if you keep whining, my god i promise i will kill you, in this life or the next

[Cyborg]

Why marines are weaker than zealots is because they can attack in the air and they can get healed by medics...

Zealots are very ground-only forces, and marines are medium ground and medium air units.

[Terror]

exactly, zealots are one purpose units, marines are all round units. They don't excell in any way, they are overruled by one purpose units like guardians and zealots, but they have more uses. And they often serve as guards for siege tanks

[Cyborg]

Did I mention that marines are very, very good when placed inside bunkers? ;D

Btw, marines have ranged attack, zealots doesn't. Which means marines can stand on a ridge and shoot down at zealots while the zealots can't do anything(this almost never happen, though ;D).

[Terror]

you can build barracks and supply depots at choke points though, that way no melee unit can come in and attack your marines, while you can use the barracks as a gate to get your forces out (you know, it can lift up)

[thomas]

zealots cost alot more than marines so stop bitching. I am impressed with EA and i now like em. the sims for ps2 is awesome the sims online awesome hte sims+expansions awesome but i dont have like 3 of em cause i dont wana spen $80+ to catch up when sims online is here. in hte sims ps2 2 player mode where your both roommates and so basically regular sims :) :D renegades is sweet, emp is cool, the 2 towers way the poop better than universals crap, jesus choose a better developer tolkien family :P, hmm what else well SSX is one of my favs the whole maddan and all of EAs sports are way the hell better than midways or 989s.

k ,y rant is done fun ehh? ;) :D

[Cyborg]

That gate idea sound sweet. I never thought of that.

Gates is a feature I miss in most strategy games...

[Terror]

yeah i know, it's a mean strategy, they kinda overuse it nowadays.. marines and siege tanks out, barracks down and they are safe again... best way to solve it is by dropping or other means of air units...

[Cyborg]

Hmm. an idea would be to nuke just behind the barracks ;D

But nukes are useless because it takes ages for them to land and if you are smart you have some detecting device near...

I usually just attack with long range weapons so the barracks wouldn't help much. It works nice as a gate, though.

What about using a command centre as a gate? It can take-off and it has more hp, but it cost more than twice as much.(maybe an idea if you're rich and your enemy isn't ;D)

[Terror]

no, command centre is not much stronger, more expensive... and the barracks can train marines (you need em anyway) i never saw someone use something else than a barracks for this use.

and yes long range units like tanks work.. but zergs kinda lack long range ground units... so i usually go for the overlord drop.. hardly fails me... unless i get fucked before i manage to get the ovi drop ofcourse

[Cyborg]

You could always use the upgraded mutalisk that look like a crab(what's his name again?)

Yeah i see your point now you can train units in the barracks ;D.

I agree the command centre isn't much stronger.