lordgrug wrote:
i think eagames is more concerned with making money then making customers happy, and are looking at ways to make even more money now.
Yeah! They should give everything away for free, dammit.
You have a great business idea there - I think you should invest a few million dollars of your money in hiring a couple of dozen people, developing a game and releasing it, and then supporting it for free, indefinitely. It shouln't take you more than a few years, and I'd be delighted to buy anything you produce.
But only if it is better than everything else on the market and costs less than $10.
As for the whole download thing, given that the patches are now hundreds of megabytes, you are pretty much screwed unless you can handle giant downloads anyhow. Remember all those poor sods who bought HL2 and then found out about steam activation when they got home? This sort of thing is the way the industry is going, which kinda sucks for anyone lacking decent net access.
Give it another 5 years and every game will probably force you to log into a server that dynamically downloads and runs the current game content on your machine. We'll need a minimum of 40Mb/s net connections, $30/month for an account and an EA-certified compatible machine. And we'll still get to spawn in and find we have no weapon or that the tank we want is upside-down. Gotta love progress.