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How EA sees a game
Source: reddit
Battlefield 3: Lets boycott the shit out of this!
As most of you know, EA recently announced an exclusive DLC for preordering BF3. If you don’t purchase the pre-order or limited edition version of BF3, you will have to pay extra for the Karkand Expansion Pack. Karkand Expansion Pack is some guns and ammunition, which will create an unfair advantage people who pre-order. As well, charging people extra to play maps available on day one.
This was a decision made by EA, and not DICE. DICE and all of us need your help to get EA to wake up and change their decision. Please remember to be POLITE in these emails. A bunch of spamming telling them what dumb asses they are probably wont help much. This already happened once – a boycott called by Sarcastic Gamer against BFBC1, that eventually caused EA to change their mind.
The point is that we don’t want paid DLC that is going to split the community into groups of who does or does not have that DLC. You obviously can’t join a server if its running a map you don’t have. Bad Company 2 gave all its users the DLC for free. Now, I can see EAs reasoning about it from a console stand point (So that they still make a little money off of used games), but there is absolutely no reason for this on the PC. Obviously, you can’t buy used PC games. EA, if you won’t do this for everyone at LEAST do it for the PC community.
Official Twitter/Facebook pages:
EA Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ea
BF3 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/battlefield
EA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EA
BF3 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlefield
Important EA emails:
- John Riccitiello (CEO) – jriccitiello@ea.com
- Eric Brown (Exec VP, CFO) – ebrown@ea.com
- John Pleasants (COO) – jpleasants@ea.com
- John Schappert – jschappert@ea.com Chief Operating Officer
- Leonard S. Coleman – lcoleman@ea.com Director
- Jeff Huber – jhuber@ea.com Director
- Gary M. Kusin – gkusin@ea.com Director
- Barker, Ken – kbarker@ea.com Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
- Geraldine Laybourne – glaybourne@ea.com Director
- Gregory B. Maffei – gmaffei@ea.com Director
- Vivek Paul – pvivek@ea.com Director
- Lawrence F. Probst III – lprobst@ea.com Chairman of the Board
- Richard A. Simonson – rsimonson@ea.com Lead Director
- Linda J. Srere – lsrere@ea.com Director
Copy and paste this to your "send to" bar to save time: jriccitiello@ea.com,ebrown@ea.com,jpleasants@ea.com,jschappert@ea.com,lcoleman@ea.com,jhuber@ea.com,gkusin@ea.com,
kbarker@ea.com,glaybourne@ea.com,gmaffei@ea.com,pvivek@ea.com,lprobst@ea.com,rsimonson@ea.com,lsrere@ea.com
Phone numbers for EA Games:
650-628-1500 – Redwood City
310-754-7000 – Los Angeles
EA support page: click
Link to original post on BF3 website: http://www.battlefield.com/uk/battlefield3/blog/battlefield-3-limited-edition-physical-warfare-pack-available
Link to the poll on EA forums: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/6801802.page
If ANYBODY gets a reply from EA, let us know what was said.
Big sites talking about it:
Source of the whole thing Reddit.
Ubiweek in Steam 23rd – 30th May
Looks like somebody doesn’t have enough money. Spend some more! :)
Presenting – Ubisoft week – every day one special deal, and all Ubisoft games 33% off (excluding IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs f Dover and Assassins Creed Brotherhood). Ubisoft is known as evil DRM distributor, so beware :) And also known with very bad geo-restricted pricings, be very careful and read the posts about the deals!
Sunday, 29th May – Tom Clancy everything –66%
Conclusion: awful prices for EU and UK, some even for AU & RU. But 2 offers have good price.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®
US: $3.39
UK: £1.69 (18% lower)
EU: 1,69€ (29% lower)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent®
US: $3.39
UK: £3.39 (65% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®
US: $3.39
UK: £3.05 (48% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™
US: $6.79 (4,75€ / £4.12)
UK: £5.09 ($8.77 / 5,87€)
EU: 10,19€ (£8.83 / $14.53)
AU: $6.79 USD (0% higher)
RU: $6.79 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ Deluxe Edition
US: $8.49 (5,95€ / £5.15)
UK: £6.79 ($11.17 / 7,83€)
EU: 11,89€ ($16.96 / £10.30)
AU: $8.49 USD (0% higher)
RU: $8.49 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction Insurgency Pack
US: $3.39
UK: £1.69 (18% lower)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Complete Pack
US: $13.59
UK: £10.19 (24% higher)
EU: 11,89€ (25% higher)
AU: $13.59 USD (0% higher)
RU: $13.59 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s EndWar™
US: $6.79
UK: £5.09 (23% higher)
EU: 6,79€ (43% higher)
AU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
RU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X™
US: $6.79
UK: £5.09 (23% higher)
EU: 6,79€ (43% higher)
AU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
RU: $10.19 USD (50% higher)
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.® 2
US: $16.99 (11,91€ / £10.32)
UK: £10.19 ($16.76 / 11,75€)
EU: 16,99€ ($24.23 / £14.72)
AU: $16.99
RU: $16.99
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.® 2 – Open Skies Expansion Pack
US: $3.39
UK: £2.37 (15% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas
US: $3.39
UK: £3.39 (65% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
US: $3.39 (2.37€)
UK: £3.39 (65% higher)
EU: 5,09€ (114% higher) <- VERY AWFUL
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown™
US: $3.39
UK: £3.05 (48% higher)
EU: 3,39€ (43% higher)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® 3 Gold
US: $3.39
UK: £1.69 (18% lower)
EU: 1,69€ (29% lower)
AU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
RU: $3.39 USD (0% higher)
Sony sued for PlayStation Network data breach
Like clockwork, the first lawsuit resulting from the security breach of the personal data of more than 75 million Sony PlayStation Network customers has been filed.
The suit was filed today on behalf of Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Ala., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Johns accuses Sony of not taking “reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users.”
He also believes Sony took too long to notify him and other customers that their personal information had been exposed. Because of that, the complaint alleges, Sony did not allow its customers “to make an informed decision as to whether to change credit card numbers, close the exposed accounts, check their credit reports, or take other mitigating actions.”
The lawsuit is asking for monetary compensation and free credit card monitoring, and is seeking class action status.
Yesterday, Sony warned customers of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service that their personal information–including customer names, addresses, e-mail addresses, birthdays, PlayStation Network and Qriocity passwords, and user names, as well as online user handles–was obtained illegally by an “unauthorized person” between April 17 and 19. The company says there is “no evidence” that credit card information was compromised, but it can’t be sure yet.
In the aftermath of the breach Sony has temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity, contracted with an outside security firm to investigate the intrusion on its network, and started to rebuild its system and security.
Johns’ complaint echoes the concerns of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat. Blumenthal yesterday wrote a letter to Jack Tretton, president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America, saying he was troubled that the company had not notified customers sooner about the breach. He also called for Sony to provide affected customers with financial data security services, including free access to credit reporting services for two years to protect against identity theft.
Source: CNET
Read the complaint here, from Scribd.
Read Connecticut Senator Blumental’s wrath here (link by stranded).
Sony response
Kalypso backstabbing EU users with unfair price for Dungeons!! (updated)
Thank you everyone, who joined Kalypso forum and said something about this unfair price.
We won something, but not much. The price has been lowered 5€, down to 44,99€. BUT this doesn’t fix the problem. We get now ripped off by 52% instead of 67%.
Beware. There are more Kalypso games with ultra unfair price as written in my post also. I think that they will simply delete the it and ban me from the forums.
WARNING!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (DUNGEONS) because of awfully unfair price for EU! Unless it’s on sale with a very cheap price!
Yay, finally, Dungeon Keeper franchise sequel Dungeons is available as the Steam news claims.
Pre-Purchase DUNGEONS – Steam Special Edition and receive M.U.D. TV to play now!
Assume the role of a mighty Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical dungeon. Lure Heroes into your labyrinthine with the promise of treasure and a good fight – only to trap them with your ingenious devices.
DUNGEONS – STEAM SPECIAL EDITION includes an exclusive extra mission, all new maps to play in sandbox mode and a variety of unique prestige gimmicks to customize your dungeon!
Pre-Purchase offer ends February 10th, 10am PST.
But hey, wait a minute. Wtf is wrong with the price, 49.99€ ($66.55)?? and in US only $39.99 (30.00€)? That’s 67% more expensive!
And not only in Steam!
Impulse:
Dungeons is available for pre-order worldwide for $39.99 USD | 44.99 EUR | 34.95 GBP. Dungeon pre-orders will be charged immediately with instant access to Ceville. There are NO REFUNDS on this title. Dungeons will be released worldwide on Impulse February 10, 2011.
GamersGate:
Price: 44.95€ – http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-DUNGEONS/dungeons
I wanted this game! Now I don’t! Unless they correct the price politics. But they won’t.
Fortunately there is a thread in Kalypso forums about this Steam Special Edition and one guy asked the question, why is the price in EU 20€ more expensive than in US. Let’s find out what they answer to this. And we got an answer:
They don’t give shit about EU! Ok that is not entirely true, because they finally lowered the price by 5€, but unfortunately it is still far from being fair price :(
Okay, I registered and posted something too, let’s wait answer for this.
So DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (DUNGEONS)! Unless it’s on sale with a very cheap price!
We are under attack! (updated: NOT!)
Good news everyone! All is good. Nobody went to war against us. We are NOT under attack. It has been simple row of unfortunate accidents….
Steam community problem started with Steam bug, which corrupted event and spammed users every time the logged in. We lost 100 users or so. Screenshots were made (as seen below in this post) and ticket to Steam was made. Steam realized 2 days later that there is glitch with event and changed status from public to private, so people can’t join and receive event-spam. Quoting:
The group was locked momentarily in order to address the issue with the events. It appears that a glitch caused the status to change in the first place. We apologize for the inconvenience.
But they didn’t know or cared to look that this event was already deleted, at the very same day. So they wanted to protect users from this glitch that wasn’t there anymore. But this isn’t the end of the bad luck – stranded, the community group owner, left accidentally the community and therefore lost his group owner status (as I assume). Let’s see what Steam support answers. I have one thread running in Steam support according this and it is totally positive experience.
Original post as follows:
Shortly as Dragoon said: In the last 30 days we had phishing attack, event spam and now the steam group was taken over by Steam.
Looks like all these problems we encountered here and in Steam community are escalated now to bigger scale.
The text is saying:
Type Changed – October 20th @ 4:47am – Group was changed into an invite-only group by %actor%
Group Locked – October 20th @ 4:47am – Modifications to the group have been disabled by Support
SteamUnpowered.eu being false-reported as Web Forgery
Update: Currently all is good, SteamUnpowered.eu is not being reported as Web Forgery :)
It all started with DLC post. Now almost every new post is reported as forgery attack site. Currently you can experience it in Weekend Deal post http://steamunpowered.eu/weekend-deals-01-10-10/
But it is not true!
SteamUnpowered.eu does not contain any bad, malicious scripts that try to install junk to your computer or gather your passwords or trick you, also there is no spambots, no toolbars, no trojans, no viruses, no rootkits, etc. We are clean!
You may confirm it by yourself: http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch
Latest on Tue, 06:43 pm
: Midweek Madness Skyrim 33% off http://cdn.store.steampowered.com/message/1028181507618443955/
: fallout 3 goty just received a price drop to 20€; also fo:nv ultimate edition (includes all dlc and preorder bonuses) just released
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: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2521400
: http://login.ign.com/prime/promos/rochard/?display=notAuth
: new indie gala bundle later this week at www.indiegala.com/
: money money money
: can anyone explain what's the friggin' deal with Age of Empires III, a 5 years old game being sold as new @40$/€ on almost every DD platform?
: Facebook is archiving the old Facebook group of ours, here's new one https://www.facebook.com/pages/SteamUnpoweredeu/260963810615450?v=wall
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: Checkout Crytek's GFACE, a new social platform for gaming http://www.gface.com/closed-beta
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jnk8n3WrXU
: new humble bundle live
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWW92UhpZs&feature=player_embedded
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: http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/epic4chan/15893009078/1/tumblr_lxkmq8V94p1r9t8yb
: http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?tta
: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/oxzje/official_steam_app_for_android_and_ios/c3l34d2
: there's still hope, first ratification of ACTA in polish parliament and even if it passes european parliament has to vote on it then
: yep, another protest today in Warsaw, and next one during National Stadium opening on Sunday
: So PL actually did sign ACTA? :( Is it right that those guy said sth like "i'll not be extorted by those inhabitants"? o.O
: the next indie royale bundle is live (serious sam indie bundle)
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