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Title: God bless EA
Post by: aldo_14 on July 28, 2005, 11:22:30 am: (never thought I'd say that line......)

http://news.spong.com/x?art=8961
[q]Electronic Arts has moved to condemn recent panic surrounding a modification for its recently released Sims 2, making for some of the most straightforward comments heard from the publishing giant.

As you will be aware, this week saw oddball legal man Jack Thompson make some incredible remarks about the game, branding it a training aid for paedophiles, details of which you can read here.

“This is nonsense,” said Jeff Brown, spokesman for EA. “Reasonable people understand there is nothing improper in the game. Reasonable people recognise what mods are. A consumer who chooses to use a mod does so without any kind of agreement with the company. There is no nudity. There is nothing improper or vulgar in the Sims 2.”

Brown continued, “Reasonable people understand the San Jose Mercury News is not responsible for vulgar things that people doodle into the margins of the paper.”

Electronic Arts will no doubt be looking to avoid entering into a similar debacle that is engulfing Rockstar for its Hot Coffee mod, the fallout from which has seen action taken in the House of Representatives stateside.
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Title: God bless EA
Post by: BlackDove on July 28, 2005, 11:27:22 am: Slightly off topic

(http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/050725.jpg)

Anyway, the whole thing is just another sensationalisation because they can't use "Dead people in the world today" as a punchline anymore, it's been exhausted.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: pyro-manic on July 28, 2005, 12:31:48 pm: :lol:

I suppose they want to avoid being the focus of a ****storm like GTA caused...
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Martinus on July 28, 2005, 12:57:59 pm: [color=66ff00]Yeah, it's an attempt to hush the extreme anti-video game nuts.

EA are afterall slave labour gits.
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Title: God bless EA
Post by: Knight Templar on July 28, 2005, 01:08:03 pm: Ohhhh! Your barel is so hot!
Title: God bless EA
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 28, 2005, 02:41:31 pm: The "thong camo" is more than Raiden had in MGS2. :shaking:
Title: God bless EA
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2005, 02:43:54 pm: The thong camo is exactly what Raikov had in MGS3. ;)
Title: God bless EA
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 28, 2005, 03:04:49 pm: Tell me Raikov is a girl.

I want to play MGS3.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Deepblue on July 28, 2005, 03:16:11 pm: I'm guessing not...
Title: God bless EA
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2005, 04:08:24 pm: Er... Raikov was put in the game to poke fun at Raiden. Fortunately he's an enemy so you get to kill him (I usually slit his throat). Although you do see him in a thong briefly it's a small price to pay for the satisfaction of killing him and finally getting revenge for MGS2. And whatever you do, don't let it discourage you from playing the game, play MGS3!
Title: God bless EA
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 28, 2005, 04:41:08 pm: I'm holding out on playing MGS3 until I can get a PS2 for cheap...probably when the PS3s come out, IIRC they have backwards compatibility so there'll probably be a flood of new used PS2s.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Deepblue on July 28, 2005, 05:45:16 pm: Go play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory instead. The gameplay is much more rewarding. AKA it's not a long movie with intermittent periods of bad gameplay.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 28, 2005, 07:54:45 pm: Splinter Cell is a yawn-fest.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: pyro-manic on July 28, 2005, 08:02:21 pm: In what way?
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 28, 2005, 08:06:10 pm: In that it's boring.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Taristin on July 28, 2005, 08:09:19 pm: Those barells are hot. I think I may fire! :nervous:
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Martinus on July 28, 2005, 08:25:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
In that it's boring.

[color=66ff00]I'd have to agree, after a while you realise that it's just a poor mans Deus Ex.
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Title: God bless EA
Post by: Knight Templar on July 28, 2005, 08:33:54 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
Splinter Cell is a yawn-fest.

Your mom is a yawn fest.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on July 28, 2005, 08:38:11 pm: And of course you'd know...

Not to mention, I notice you don't say anything about disagreeing. :p
Title: God bless EA
Post by: BlackDove on August 02, 2005, 10:33:05 am: Little late, but this was funny.

(http://www.biggercheese.com/comics/0576.png)
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Rson on August 03, 2005, 05:14:01 am: :lol: bad parenting shouldn't be that funny...
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Mefustae on August 03, 2005, 05:46:21 am: In the spirit of VGCats

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Originally posted by Maeglamor
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EA are afterall slave labour gits.
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(http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/1764/ea3mz.jpg)
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Unknown Target on August 03, 2005, 06:57:37 am: I never quite understood why EA was so bad...can someone enlighten me?
Title: God bless EA
Post by: aldo_14 on August 03, 2005, 07:06:39 am: They're a monopoly, crushing all original innovative titles under a jackboot of overmarketed franchise sequels with ****ty overpresentation and unskippable developer intro movies.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 03, 2005, 07:31:07 am: They destroyed Westwood Stuidios...raped the C&C franchise...have perptrated an endless horde of ****ty sports games upon us...

I'd better stop. A comprehensive listing could take weeks.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: phatosealpha on August 03, 2005, 07:36:37 am: There was a very big stink about the way E.A. treats their programmers. Essentially they're in 'crunch time' 365 days a year, work 12 hours 7 days a week, and the second one project finishes, it's right on to 'crunch time' on another. If someone gets fed up and quits, no biggie, always a fresh crop of young programmers happy to take his place.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Martinus on August 03, 2005, 07:41:22 am: [color=66ff00]I believe this is a good summation of their work practices: Link (www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/)

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Title: God bless EA
Post by: Ulala on August 03, 2005, 01:29:46 pm: Ugh, sounds nasty. Maybe I shouldn't go into computer science... :shaking:
Title: God bless EA
Post by: Grug on August 03, 2005, 11:00:37 pm: Just avoid EA Ulala and start your own company. :D

LoL at EA firing back at the crazy's.
Title: God bless EA
Post by: EtherShock on August 04, 2005, 12:45:21 pm: Ugh, I just read the EA article. It sounds like a sweatshop. I don't understand why the staff just don't unionize and strike. I'll never buy another EA game again.