Not flaming Ca

[gollum]

Originally posted by Didz
Yeah! I have to concur here, something has gone badly awry at CA, and I suspect its all down to bullying by SEGA.

First, of all we the customers were forced to accept an officially sanctioned piece of spyware being embedded on our computers by Medieval Kingdoms before we were allowed to play the game. This spyware is actually sold separately by SEGA to other game producers with the promise that it can be programmed to gather any marketing data they want on their customers, and has also been embedded in other games like Bioshock. Now we find we are forced to download another invasive piece of software to play this game.

I don’t blame CA for this, but if you play with sharks expect to get bitten. I find it sad that such a good company has fallen under the influence of such an immoral one.

Mike Simpson (CA Studio director) actually many times said in the press that CA are delighted by the fact that SEGA bought them, simply because of the stability and security that this move brought. In essence they are an in-house developer for SEGA and this means they have a greater decision freedom/stability-safety ratio. Word for word he said *Its great that we dont have to worry where from tomorrows meal will be coming from* or something to that effect (PC gamer/Spring 2008 me thinks).

As such, branding SEGA *immoral* and CA *such a good company* is with all due respect childish.

Steam is used by many other games/companies and has plenty of potential for the TW mp game too.