- EA
- Always online
*fix'd
Always online is bad enough, but when they sprinkle it with some genuine EA™ magic, it gets really, really bad.
I can't even fathom who the fuck thought it would be a great idea to have a 30 minute retry time to connect to the servers. That's some special quality bullshit right there.
microtransaction bullshit and what not kill any respect you can have for them as a game developer.
Pretty much, yeah. Not to mention the fact that they don't care for games with solely single player and have a tendency to ruin franchises just by touching them.
And of course it's the exact opposite for Valve, they can get away with whatever (like delaying a game for 6 years) and they'll still be the saints of the internet.
Nah, that's not really true. If it hadn't been for the sales, way fewer people would care. And Steam is still DRM.
That being said, Valve do have a better track record, but I don't see a point in HL3, as there's no way it can live up to the hype it would get.