I don’t even want an EA account. I’m on Steam. Fuck off and let me play without all the stupid hoops. I trust Valve to do me right. I trust EA to do me dirty wherever it can, usually right after they have my money.
Don’t preorder. That’s all I have to add.
EA has created such a terrible reputation for itself. I like The Sims, but I learned long ago not to get any add-ons until after it’s been out for a while and people have made reviews about them. There are some packs, like the High School Years pack, where persistent, unsolved bugs make key elements of the pack unplayable. That pack came out three years ago and still hasn’t been fixed, and I’m not getting it until/unless those issues become resolved… which they probably never will be.
They still try to shove ads in your face multiple times on start up (and embedded a fucking shopping cart symbol to a menu that’s visible during game play… which fucking pulses until you click on it.) Hey EA, if you want my money so bad, how about you fix your shit to make it worth my money? No amount of obnoxious ads will convince me to buy something unplayable.
Best thing to do with an EA game: Wait ~3 months after full release. It almost always gets discounted, it’s likely been patched probably twice, the gameservers have been patched, and the download servers aren’t mobbed.
Now you can actually enjoy the game without, “OmG iT’s UnPlaYaBlE!!1”
Don’t care unless they drop the kernel level anti cheat
I believe the rumour mill had this requiring the TPM secure boot.
This is what stopped a lot of users upgrading to windows 11 also.
I mean 2042 already requires Secure Boot sooo this is pretty much set in stone.
It does?
The free weekends never required it
They enabled it in one of the most recent updates. No idea why they would do that but they did.
Kernel level anticheat, so IDGAF.
Man, I
thoughtbought unravel the other day for $5 on the steam sale. I didn’t know it was going to a bitch to play on the steam deck. God damn. It’s not playable on the deck because of the damn launcher. I need to switch to desktop mode to play it. It makes me sign in every single fucking and I’m getting sick of it. Fuck EA.I have bf4 and steam takes care of the whole ea login, maybe it’s your setting or something? That being said, EA killed all the other battlefield games on the deck with poorly thought out anti cheat, so ya, Fuck EA.
The only setting I changed is I enabled proton in compatibility. That’s it.
Sure, at launch ;)
Even then, online-only and/or no bots = no buy from me.
This was my first thought too. Evil corp can always alter the deal further.
Can we stop calling computer programs Apps?
Why? It’s just short for application, which has been used to mean a computer program for decades.
Why?
It’s dumb. These aren’t mobile devices.
The term predates mobile devices by a long time. The only reason to limit the terms like this is for a non-techsavy audience which Lemmy isn’t.
Thank god, if this upcoming beta isn’t a technical mess, and actually fun, I didn’t wanna buy it on their EA app.
