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[Nadaka]

yea. I don't buy big name games any more for this reason. I only play browser and indie games now, though I do buy a lot of my indie games from steam.

[Euld]

Why not find a way to organize an internet-wide boycott of EA and Origin until they stop doing this ridiculousness?  At least, well, I wish I knew how to set up something like that.

[Mindmaker]

Neighbors are disturbing my newly found habit of reading books on the terrace.
It's either their noisy kids, a overly loud radio or them doing indecent things (from the sound of it) to each other in the pool.

I probably should just use this opportunity to get over my inability to concentrate in noisy ambience.

[nenjin]

Why not find a way to organize an internet-wide boycott of EA and Origin until they stop doing this ridiculousness?  At least, well, I wish I knew how to set up something like that.

Well for one, the EULA in many ways reads just like other EULAs on this subject. What fuels all of this is a lot of stuff in the context around the game. EA's past attitude. EA's obvious drive to set themselves up in the DD market and compete with Steam. All the IP enforcement stuff going on in Congress. There's stuff surrounding the issue that makes people anxious, but you could argue the specific contents of the EULA aren't on their face unacceptable. I haven't compared it to Steam's EULA but others have and they say it's not super exceptional.

And two is that gamer boycotts have zero credibility with the average gamer, even if they have an excellent point. Games don't contain moral issues for most gamers, or if they do it's stuff like "CoD mass murder simulators are wrong." Games aren't fur coats, blood diamonds or child-labor sneakers. And while most gamers seem to be aware they have rights as consumers, they don't seem that worried about protecting them until they get bitten in the ass by their loss.

I'm confident there are plenty of people out there who will play watchdog. But like I said, it doesn't really help me in my decision. If this stuff honestly bothers me, I just shouldn't purchase.

[kaijyuu]

One of the benefits of not really caring about mainstream games is I don't have to deal with that kind of shit.


Last mainstream game I considered buying was starcraft 2. The region locking is what convinced me not to. Not regretting it.

[lemon10]

One of the benefits of not really caring about mainstream games is I don't have to deal with that kind of shit.


Last mainstream game I considered buying was starcraft 2. The region locking is what convinced me not to. Not regretting it.

One of the problems with that is that since you, and many of the people on B12 (like me) don't bother getting mainstream games (and even if we do we get them on a big sale), EA won't care what we do either way.

[Solifuge]

I don't really rage. I do get pretty damn frustrated, though.

I woke up this morning to drive my roommate to the train station for a week-long visit to his beau. When I return home, I find that my AT&T service had stopped working. I tried to fix it for some 2 hours, and eventually ducked into my roommate's room to take back my wireless adapter to try that. Lo and behold, he'd been squirreling away a pile of letters from AT&T on his desk. Bills, termination warnings, etc. He hadn't told me about them at all, and about a month's worth had been opened and read, so he knew all about them... including that they would be terminating our service on the same day he left.

I was planning to use Gmail and Googles VOIP phone service to keep in touch with people, contact jobs, etc., being that he just left with our only house phone for the week. Apparently he lacked the foresight to see how this was a problem, or even the decency to tell me that we'd gotten the bills. I could actually have taken care of it by myself, had I known... but now that there's a reactivation fee tacked on, I'll be unable to do it. I am now without any means to keep in touch with anyone, follow up on jobs I desperately need, or call anyone or anything in case of emergencies, until next month. Thank god for libraries with internet connections, I suppose.

God damn it, roommate.

[Aklyon]

Rooooooooooomaaaaaaaaate!

[Nadaka]

Could be worse. I had a room mate skip town, leaving me a $4000 phone bill in my name.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Throw his stuff out and change the locks.

[sonerohi]

Or, contact someone in his family and feed them information they could not know, and together engage in bizarre and elaborate pranks, with the ultimate aim of inducing crippling paranoia. Then, afterward, tell him and offer him therapy. When he finally starts returning to normal, fill his room with cereal.

[Blargityblarg]

Or, contact someone in his family and feed them information they could not know, and together engage in bizarre and elaborate pranks, with the ultimate aim of inducing crippling paranoia. Then, afterward, tell him and offer him therapy. When he finally starts returning to normal, fill his room with cereal.

No, fill it with Lion King plushies. Filled with cereal.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Or, contact someone in his family and feed them information they could not know, and together engage in bizarre and elaborate pranks, with the ultimate aim of inducing crippling paranoia. Then, afterward, tell him and offer him therapy. When he finally starts returning to normal, fill his room with cereal.

No, fill it with Lion King plushies. Filled with cereal.

And cameras. With various and inappropriate government logos stamped on them, such as the Department of Transportation, the Department of Hunter-Killer Satellites, the Sterilization Commission, and the Department of the New World Order.

Then walk in wearing a robe and carrying a single black candle.

[Gunner-Chan]

No, fill it with Lion King plushies. Filled with cereal.

That's terrifying.

[Bauglir]

If you're feeling lazy, just get the family member you contact to ensure guilting ensues until you have the opportunity to do it yourself. But seriously, cereal-room-camera-candle-cloak is the way to go.