Screw their lies. Their "hours played" counts time in the launcher, not even in the game. So if I click the launcher from Origin, but am unable to play the actual God-damned game, it still counts me as playing. I've seen and reported this, others have to. It's retarded. Most people have had the launcher up for hours on end waiting for the Play button to work properly.
And even then, 15 hrs per person on a game that launched 2 weeks ago SUCKS! 336 hours total between then and now, and yet they're saying that the average a player played was 15 hours? That just means that people either couldn't or didn't want to play this shit game.
Guild Wars 2 collector's edition had ..... Rytlock statue (really kickass), metal tin with etched map on lid, 5x artistic prints, frame, DVD, making-of book with art....all this makes t very valuable. It's very valued personally and actually better than the junk CE's that Blizzard pushes for their games.
@LesserAngel @northArrow I'm sorry to inform you, but microtransactions and DLC are the exact same thing, just with a different name. DLC is Download Content for a previously launched game, Microtransaction is to sell mini-content for a full game....both are the same, just different names. The reason different names is because MT got a toxic name when it associated itself for a long time with F2P MMORPG's that used it as a "pay to win" for the customers. The name is eventually turning around as F2P becomes are more acceptable standard within the genre.
For example, take a look at Skyrim. Hearthfire is small MT that is basically $5 for an in-game house. Dawnguard is larger DLC that provides a few new quests, gear, and vampire abilities. Both are the same: extra content that costs extra money outside the box cost of the game.
That's just one example, as there's hundreds from SR The 3rd, to COD: BO II. They all have MT's/DLC, but it's all completely optional.
However, if you're talking MT's as a completely different content to being an in-game store buy system the likes of a Facebook game (Sim City Social is a good example), that won't happen. That is basically purchasing individual buildings, resources, and the like within the game. But that's for completely free-2-play titles used to encourage spending to provide funding for the game itself; this game will not have that based on A) having already played the game, none of the buildings cost an outside source of $$, nor is there a system set up to charge players $$ for individual in-game items on that level.
@northArrow @Deathfish69165 @Sorciere_basic No, a completely ignorant post is comparing making video games to performing surgery. Or, as in case with the person I was commenting towards, making a post about "EA churn out another pile of crap". It's a know-nothing comment to trash a product for no real reason at all. There's no explanation to the hate filled comment, just blather.
And I'm saying that the person needs to understand the intricacies of making video games, the time and effort put in, before just trashing them and dismissing them as "crap". To dismiss someone else's career and works, without understanding any of it, is ignorance. Plain and simple.
@Sorciere_basic And you are able to do better? Let's see your virtual city simulator game, one that allows macro and micro management of your city, runs good on most PC's made past 2005, and has multiplayer with it.
Oh, you don't have one? You have no talent to make one? Okay then, please sit down and be quiet. Thanks.
@brainiac1988 Actually, a hippy is a penniless person that spews bullcrap just to justify self entitlement to things that normal people buy while they try to get for free... hmmm, sounds familiar? Look in the mirror, Hippy.
Me, I'm an Average Joe who works for a living and get sick and tired of watching penniless hippies try to justify their thievery with entitlement.
@theconniption Highly unlikely there'll be a crack or any illegal copy, because of the way they require Origin authentication and syncing, as well as no direct-client saves (it's saved server side only). So, besides "cracking" the game, there would have to be some significant programming to get things changed to play it offline.
And besides that, illegal downloading doesn't do anything but say 1) You're a thief and 2) that you encourage illegal downloading (which in turn causes more issues and the developers put more DRM to prevent it).
YOU DO NOT OWN THE GAME! First off, it's not "your" single-player game, so don't go there at all. This is a multiplayer Sim City made by Maxis and EA with the option to play solo if you'd like (by making your region private).
Now, I can somewhat understand that IF YOU PURCHASE THE GAME that you can/want to crack it....but only if you own it in the first place. But by not purchasing it at all, and still claiming you have rights to play it...you're an entitled brat and a thief, nothing more. No "if's, ands, or buts" about it.
How many of you gigantic complainers have purchased Diablo III? Or have purchased/going to purchase Starcraft II/HotS? Because that is always on DRM just the same, and it's hypocritical to speak against EA while owning a Blizzard product....
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