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It'd take an unimaginable dumbass to actually buy this, but I don't see the harm in EA offering it. By all means, take the dumb people's money.
Too bad it's going to work and make EA tons of money. This will never end. I want to set fire to something.
The question is not to ask why they are doing this, or what cunting Tetris DLC will look like, we should instead be asking: Is John Riccitiello in direct unison with the devil, or is the man the devil himself. I heard EA's Origin will steal your Tax Returns from 2003, and remotely set your HP printer on fire! My buddy QuantumcatPhD told me so!
I kind of feel sorry for the 40 year old mum who loves her some Tetris and decides to buy it but I can't help but feel anyone who does is ... really not thinking straight.
This must be EA's little experiment, to see how else they can steal money from their customers and potentially evolve it into something worse than online/season passes.
This must be EA's little experiment, to see how else they can steal money from their customers and potentially evolve it into something worse than online/season passes.
FOR THE LOW PRICE OF $3 A MONTH YOU HAVE UNLIMITED ACCESS TO VARIOUS SHAPES SUCH AS "THE LINE" AND "THE SQUARE".
I feel dirty knowing that EA owns the Tetris IP.
I feel dirty knowing that EA owns the Tetris IP.
EA and Activision are apparently fighting with each other for the "most evil corporation" world heavyweight title.
I just can't wrap my head around this.
Why would anyone pay that much money a month for something that sounds like a free update for everyone?...
Why would anyone pay that much money a month for something that sounds like a free update for everyone?...
Arika would never pull a stunt like this. No, they would limit it to the people who care about Tetris only slightly more than we do.
Haters be damned, I can't wait to see the Elite features:
-Uploading my Tetris videos on Youtube, automatically sharing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, Bebo and rotten.com
-Video series with Danny Trejo and Elmo.
-A stats page showing the number of times you've used each Tetrimino.
-Heat maps showing what parts of the screen you've had the most Tetrimino's on.
-Hot tips like "don't just dump the blocks on top of each other, moran."
-Uploading my Tetris videos on Youtube, automatically sharing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, Bebo and rotten.com
-Video series with Danny Trejo and Elmo.
-A stats page showing the number of times you've used each Tetrimino.
-Heat maps showing what parts of the screen you've had the most Tetrimino's on.
-Hot tips like "don't just dump the blocks on top of each other, moran."
A subscription service for a single player game? Sign me the fuck up. I can't wait for those one man raids. Gotta get all those purple blocks to be taken seriously in the vast Tetris community.
Why does gaming suck more and more each year? No, not the games themselves, but all the bullshit publishers have tacked onto them. Drm,day 1 dlc, online passes, online codes to access offline modes..it just goes on and on. These things probably wouldn't be if gaming popularity hadn't exploded. Then again, we wouldn't have some of the games we have now. The bullshit just gets deeper and deeper. But that seems to be the trend for every business these days. The people with money find more ways to get more money while shitting on the consumer.I should have been born in the 50's.
@salama
Wii games have none of these problems. And neither do handheld games.
@sksith
I wonder myself some days...
Wii games have none of these problems. And neither do handheld games.
@sksith
I wonder myself some days...
"cheeky scamps" really Jim that's the words you expect me to believe were in your head when you wrote this article? lol
@Ronin
The Other M "patch" issue requiring you to send your Wii in was worse than any issue I've had with any other system in my life.
Also - http://www.3dsbuzz.com/nintendo-3ds-update-will-cause-ridge-racer-3d-issues/
Also - Nintendo has announced that they are going to toy with DLC. Also, if you're counting the PSP in with "handhelds" (you probably wouldn't, because all you talk about is Nintendo products), there's another heap of issues there.
Nintendo is not immune, and the entire industry is getting worse and worse.
The Other M "patch" issue requiring you to send your Wii in was worse than any issue I've had with any other system in my life.
Also - http://www.3dsbuzz.com/nintendo-3ds-update-will-cause-ridge-racer-3d-issues/
Also - Nintendo has announced that they are going to toy with DLC. Also, if you're counting the PSP in with "handhelds" (you probably wouldn't, because all you talk about is Nintendo products), there's another heap of issues there.
Nintendo is not immune, and the entire industry is getting worse and worse.
Yeah, the online pass thing is officially out of control. When one of the most played and widely available games in history gets one things have gone too far. Why in hell would you do this for a game that can be played for free in a million different places?
Millions of gamers pay Microsoft $50 a year to use a console they bought 6 years ago. All gamers succumb to idiocy in this hobby.
I'm quite proud of this one. The shapes represent the game "Tetris", whilst the baby is EA in its corporate greed with the hand being the consumer feeding it with our currency.
I really can't wait for the day when I need to pay an additional online pass fee to access the Internet as well, on top of the usual ISP charges. Hopefully it will contain insider access to newly updated webpages.
EA's money grab is so fucking pathetic. I hate this company solely on it's moral grounds of charging for every fucking thing they publish.
Maybe they'll come up with a new arcade price model that says you buy the game and then pay a quarter every 5 minutes to play.
EA, their stupid Madden franchise grab, their Origin, Prepaid crap disk hidden DLC.
I get that companies wanna make a buck, but damn, gaming was built on a foundation of innocent enjoyment from it's onset. EA has twisted the model so perversely it makes me see red anytime EA is mentioned.
Maybe they'll come up with a new arcade price model that says you buy the game and then pay a quarter every 5 minutes to play.
EA, their stupid Madden franchise grab, their Origin, Prepaid crap disk hidden DLC.
I get that companies wanna make a buck, but damn, gaming was built on a foundation of innocent enjoyment from it's onset. EA has twisted the model so perversely it makes me see red anytime EA is mentioned.
@mag
No, I was including psp. And talking about some other m problem(I never heard about this incident) is a tad bit unfair, as it isn't something that occurs regularly and that is the whole point.
The industry is getting worse but Nintendo and most Japanese game developers aren't following so closely behind, and people seem incapable of recognizing this.
No, I was including psp. And talking about some other m problem(I never heard about this incident) is a tad bit unfair, as it isn't something that occurs regularly and that is the whole point.
The industry is getting worse but Nintendo and most Japanese game developers aren't following so closely behind, and people seem incapable of recognizing this.
Although I shouldn't include psp, as 4 bucks for prinny dlc and constant updates are kind of silly,among other issues.
@ronin; I think everybody knows that if the wiiu gets real 3rd party support then those problems will be there too. We got a taste of handheld trouble with the REmercs save file. Its only going to get worse, but you are right about wii/handhelds,it just won't stay that way
@magnalon; what's this about the other m patch? Was it actually bricking wii's? That's friggin terrible if that's the case.
I'd happily pay for a downloadable block that fills the whole screen... would make the game less challenging though =/
@salamagogo
From what I've heard, that wasn't the case. You could send in your stuff to get the Other M bug fixed. It wasn't a long game though and you could avoid the bug (as far as I'm aware), so there wasn't much point to it.
@Welshedderz
Okay, I'm going to bite. What does the unicorn represent?
From what I've heard, that wasn't the case. You could send in your stuff to get the Other M bug fixed. It wasn't a long game though and you could avoid the bug (as far as I'm aware), so there wasn't much point to it.
@Welshedderz
Okay, I'm going to bite. What does the unicorn represent?
@ShadeOfLight
Nope, you are right. It didn't brick Wiis. It just screwed up the save file. It made you stuck and unable to advance because a door would never open. It forced you to start the game all over again (unskippable cutscenes included), basically, so it wasn't a very nice thing.
Fortunately, it was easily avoided if you knew about it. It had something to do with a saveroom and there was not anything like that in the whole game. I think. I never heard about the solution Nintendo gave, but if you had to send your Wii... that's awful.
Other than that I also recall a Super Paper Mario bug, but it wasn't game breaking and it was just present in the PAL version, so you guys probably wouldn't even knew about it.
Nope, you are right. It didn't brick Wiis. It just screwed up the save file. It made you stuck and unable to advance because a door would never open. It forced you to start the game all over again (unskippable cutscenes included), basically, so it wasn't a very nice thing.
Fortunately, it was easily avoided if you knew about it. It had something to do with a saveroom and there was not anything like that in the whole game. I think. I never heard about the solution Nintendo gave, but if you had to send your Wii... that's awful.
Other than that I also recall a Super Paper Mario bug, but it wasn't game breaking and it was just present in the PAL version, so you guys probably wouldn't even knew about it.
@ShadeOfLight
Does a guy really need an excuse to put a unicorn in a picture of a toddler with dollar sings in their eyes and surrounded by Tetris pieces?
If so, it's the EA shareholders erected dicks.
Does a guy really need an excuse to put a unicorn in a picture of a toddler with dollar sings in their eyes and surrounded by Tetris pieces?
If so, it's the EA shareholders erected dicks.
As long as it is not a requirement I don't really care because I would never buy this in a million years.
@Sean Daisy
Lol!
@Sean Daisy
Lol!
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