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EA has suddenly and permanently changed the prices for Command and Conquer (decreased prices, close to historic lows) (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (4 children)

No no no no no... EA cant do something cool and good for consumers, someone slipped with a decimal place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm convinced its a mistake, especially given that origin hasn't dropped the price

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I got them for free on origin years ago. But either way, they're old games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's still a much better experience when pirated, since there's no DRM. Also, it'll make you feel glad you didn't pay for it when you learn they wasted the entire budget for C&C4 on a movie set and an "unbreakable" DRM that someone cracked within a few hours after the launch. They also killed the series with a very cheesy "and everyone lived happily ever after" with that one, and I never forgave them for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

heh

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Old meme, EA hasn't been half-bad for years. Ubisoft, ActiBlizz and Nintendo are the current worst.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Bro, it's a Corporation. Just when you trust them they WILL stab you in the back.

They WILL fuck up Mass Effect 4 somehow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

All corpos are evil

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Did EA actually do anything to get better? From my point of view all they've done is stop getting worse—they're still in the shitty hole they spent 2 decades digging

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Still waiting for actual updates to jedi survivor on PC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are the bounties still broken? I did something when I first played that locked out all the rest of those missions for me, so I was only able to do like the first three.

I will say I liked that hologram battle game quite a bit and I wish there were more opponents to go against.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Was patched 6 months after release iiirc? I had to edit my save file to trigger the bounties. Option was only available to PC though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Guess it's a good thing I got it on steam then. Still, it's 160 gig game, and I don't have the patience to wait for that reinstall, or shuffle things around so I could.

The combat and lightsaber customization was fucking awesome too though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IDK, I usually don't bother ranking companies if they're below some level. EA requires their launcher on a lot of their games, and that alone puts them on the "terrible" list.

Nintendo at least makes good games with minimal BS, so I'm more likely to give them a pass than the others since they make mediocre games with a lot of BS to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Paid cloud saves with no portable alternative is a lot of bs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe I'm weird, but I've never needed cloud saves. I play on one device, and when I'm done with the game, I don't care about my saves.

I think I've used cloud saves on Steam once, and that was to play with syncing between Steam Deck and PC. It's just not a thing I value.

Maybe it uniquely impacts you, but I'm guessing the quiet majority are more like me. Then again, I grew up in the OG console days where saves were stored on the cartridge itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

EA just canned a Mandalorian game for seemingly no reason. They still can't Star Wars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sounds like a license to print money to me. Stupid decision.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I heard the remastered collection was half decent too, but it's still too little too late. That company has done so much damage to the whole industry for so long that I just want to see it burn to the ground to release all those rights and licenses to those franchises to studios that actually mean well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Add Square to the list. They have had the absolute worst PC ports with zero updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I get that corporations are all ultimately after your money and nothing else, but I'm curious why Nintendo is on here. As far as game companies, the only thing I really see from them that's kind of ass is their hyperprotectiveness of their own IPs. It sucks, but I don't need a battlepass to get the full experience of the next Mario game. Zelda doesn't require an always online connection. Metroid Prime 4 is actually gonna be finished on release instead of just shipping it in a terrible state

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo is too litigous, and just successfully sued a switch emulator out of existence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They've also stolen code from emulators (who I think they also sued).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, that's fair, and super fucked up. I have a lot of issues with that, including the cultural ramifications

Still, it seems a different caliber to being actively hostile to players in the game design department. Nintendo games aren't the ones using psychological manipulation to give me a gambling addiction

That's fair, though. It's hella fucked up, and I've been wary of Nintendo's approach to this stuff since way back when AM2R was coming out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Nintendo has the worst price policy out of all publishers. Their games never drop in pricing

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

True enough I guess, I cant remember the last specific thing they did that pissed me off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Required an EA launcher.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

True, they were just so bad for so long that trashing them sort of became the default. I have to like, rewire my brain so I can treat them fairly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

They’ve shown us who they are. They do not change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

So, what studio is EA going to shut down to offset the good karma from doing this?