EA can officially go to hell

[Judaeus Apella]

This is why indie games are so popular right now. No corporations trying to squeeze every dime out of you, most of them are just devs trying to make an honest buck. Then there's projects like Fallen Earth, which is just a disaster. I hated World of Tanks too. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make a tank completely invisible if you're using camo? Players might as well be using cheats.

[lutjens]

Companies whose business models revolve around screwing the customer are doomed to fail if that customer has an alternative choice...

[alternativesurf]

And now I sorta lost interest into online gaming, so Im just enjoying visit to Skyrim (which actually gave me more fun than both D3 and BF3 and Im hardcore FPS player.. or I was ).

They can "want" whatever microtransactions they want, release as much DLCs as they want. If it will be sh*t, it will simply fail anyway. I dont think gaming and especially FPS will go back where it used to be. It went mainstream and its lost forever as anything that wents mainstream.

As much as I was playing devil's advocate, I must admit I've recently rejected the online multiplayer world.
They just aren't as fun as they used to be, and there are way too many tweens running around TKing...

Skyrim/FF(enter number here)/and other games with major playtime are now my thing

[Judaeus Apella]

I don't think I've ever talked about this, but its actually my dream to get into game development, and do what I can to get the gaming industry out of the funk of greed and laziness its been stuck in for a while. I've been coming up with ways to solve a lot of problems with online gaming. No I'm not talking about it, I guard my work with my life and never talk about it. Only problem is game development is a really hard career to get into, and I'm not a programmer, and I keep getting conflicting information on what education I need. I've talked to devs from Valve and Interplay. Its my dream to do this, but its really difficult finding a starting point, plus I have a learning disability. I wish I could meet a gifted programmer who has the same dreams I have, and isn't just out for them self. Anyone I've ever trusted has always screwed me over though.

[hollywood]

I'm tired of being called an effing 'consumer.'

I'm a citizen, a customer, a PERSON.

[STEvil]

The Customer is always right.

The Consumer is cash cow.

[Judaeus Apella]

When I used to be a product rep, I never lost sight that my customers were people, not a "thing" I could make money off then toss aside. I hate salesmen who do that, always have. I spent as much time as each customer needed, and treated each one of them with respect. I never suggested a product I didn't like, and only suggested what they NEEDED, nothing more. I even took the time to teach them how to use anything I sold to them, all they had to do was ask. And I answered any question they had honestly. I had so many loyal customers, they were sending me relatives. lol

But then the area I was assigned to started to change. A lot of upper class people started frequenting that store after they developed that area and made it a lot nicer. They acted entitled and rude, mistook genuine excitement over a new product for pushiness, they hated ALL salesmen even the nice ones and treat them all like crap, and complained to a superior if I didn't kiss their feet. I don't like that area anymore but I have to go there for my groceries. Every time I shop there, I see someone's luxury car illegally parked in a handicapped space. I actually saw a really big luxury car with a big "Romney" sticker illegally parked in a handicapped space during the election. When I saw that, I burst out laughing cause the imagery was just too funny and ironic! I should have made a comic of that for Reddit.

[Linchpin]

Microtransactions will be the death of gaming at this rate honestly, all the real "gamers" I know hate them with a passion, the bored farmville playing housewives on the other hand seem to love being nickel and dimed to death.

[Kingcarcas]

Just don't buy their stuff, nothing wrong with them making money. I don't give a crap about online multiplayer so i just play the SP by some other "means"...........

^ Should have reported them

[Judaeus Apella]

Your mouths would collectively drop if you knew the game I have storming around in my head. I've been slowly tinkering with ideas for years, story concepts, taking lots of mental notes from lots and lots of games. Every time I play a game I think about every feature. What I like, what I don't how I would change it, what I think is missing, what would make the game more fun or more involving, and asking people the same questions I ask my self. I have an idea for one game that would make most people quit all of the top games, and play this one instead. But I think it might need a quantum computer server and possibly some kind of next gen voxel engine or something along those lines. Not sure, cause I don't know anything about coding but the load would be insanely heavy on the servers compared to today's games. Coding isn't my area. My area is the artistic side of game development, planning, writing, editing, modeling, photography, concepts, textures, and ideas flow from my head like water (good ideas that are actually good, not bad ideas I think are good but everyone else thinks are crap). Problem is. How the hell you find someone you can trust with your ideas? Feels like you either keep them to your self which makes things incredibly hard to get anything done, or share them and get screwed. NDA isn't bulletproof, people find ways to get around them. So far I only have one friends I've told. I've known him for years and I trust him. He loves my ideas and said he really wants to play this game.