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| EA Closing down servers, including Madden 09 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sunday Jan 10 2010, 08:41 PM (229 Views) | |
| King Hiss | Sunday Jan 10 2010, 08:41 PM Post #1 |
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Seriously, Madden 09 already??? If this is supposed to encourage us to keep buying the latest version, then it's done the opposite. I don't even play these games online all that much, I'm just insulted by them thinking we're too dumb to know what shit they're pulling. |
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| JAMSIN | Sunday Jan 10 2010, 08:59 PM Post #2 |
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its EA. Im surprised peopel still buy their shit. same game each year just with a slight modification to it. Fifa 07 08 09 2010 etc.. |
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| King Hiss | Sunday Jan 10 2010, 09:39 PM Post #3 |
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Which is why alot of people don't. Myself included. I pick up a sports game of the same type usually no less than three years apart. I don't jump on until I can see a significant reason to do so. I did buy Madden 09 because of the many good reviews it received, but the last grid iron game I had bought before that was NFL2K on the Dreamcast. It's people like me that they're screwing. |
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| JAMSIN | Sunday Jan 10 2010, 10:25 PM Post #4 |
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I guess Madden doesnt get as much support or players to it than say FIFA? I know a few friends of mine play Madden on 360 but its not as popular as FIFA is I'd have thought. Although I'd say its bigger in the USA being american football mad over there. I stopped buying EA Sport games a long time ago cos they're just pumping em out too frequent too fast. |
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| felicitous blue | Monday Jan 11 2010, 12:03 AM Post #5 |
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this is just fucked. EA have been incredibly schizophrenic recently. On the one hand they have actively tried to buck their image with releases liker Dead Space, and a genuine improvement in franchises like FIFA which is now considered to be better than Pro Evo. Then they do shit like this, closing servers of a game but a year old. That sucks, I don't know what to think now..... |
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| King Hiss | Monday Jan 11 2010, 12:05 AM Post #6 |
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You know what would be nicer? If they just released a patch for these games that let you local host it, like every other game on Live that isn't made by them. |
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| Spoodge6 | Monday Jan 11 2010, 02:28 PM Post #7 |
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Because they have the sole rights to NFL if people want to play online they will need to upgrade. Thats the only reason they are doing it for Madden 09 only and have not done it to the other sports games. I think the NFL should step in on issues like this. |
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| King Hiss | Monday Jan 11 2010, 02:33 PM Post #8 |
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Good point! It probably makes them money as well, so long as it wasn't a flat rate license. Even if it was, they lose nothing out of it. It's just a money making prick act that no business is going to care about. |
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| ravenous515 | Monday Jan 11 2010, 02:34 PM Post #9 |
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Yeah when EA saw that NFL2K5 was one of the best NFL games ever made, they just bought the sole rights to the NFL rather than actually improve gameplay and what have you. Typical EA
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| Kenji Urban | Monday Jan 11 2010, 04:29 PM Post #10 |
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broken.
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EA shafting people? Sound absolutely correct to me. Remember kids..... EA says; You've paid money now fuck off. |
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| branden77 | Monday Jan 11 2010, 04:48 PM Post #11 |
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well, i wont be getting madden again, fuck em. at least Tiger 09 is still up. how will this affect patches, lets say you clear you cach, you loose any patches and you go to play again, that would fuck your save games then wouldnt it? |
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| King Hiss | Monday Jan 11 2010, 04:49 PM Post #12 |
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I don't hink patches are effected. I believe they're all kept on MS's servers and not EA's. You just jump from Live to EA servers for multi. |
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