What game/company are you most annoyed

**Abokasee** · 07-07-2007, 09:51

What game are you most annoyed with, or game company,

EA

HOW DARE THEY EXTEND SPORES REALEASE DATE TO 2008!!!

Lion Head

No Online play for B&W2, hmmm, No online for B&W2 BOTGs, Outragous

**naut** · 07-07-2007, 11:57

Hmm. My least favourite company/publisher has to be EA. I detest their guts.

**UltraWar** · 07-07-2007, 12:25

I really hate LucasArts because of the amount of Star Wars games and merchandise they keep releasing.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 07-07-2007, 14:16

Originally Posted by Abokasee

What game are you most annoyed with, or game company,

EA

HOW DARE THEY EXTEND SPORES REALEASE DATE TO 2008!!!

Lion Head

No Online play for B&W2, hmmm, No online for B&W2 BOTGs, Outragous

You're quite rightly annoyed with EA but for all the wrong reasons.

1) It was Will Wright's decision to push back the release date on Spore. EA as the publisher were the one's who announced it. For once they realise that this is potentially a game made of pure win if it is done right, so they're letting him have as much time as he wants.

As i've said in the past, get off your high horse with your hate of EA when it comes to the Spore release date. Check your facts.

2) There are valid reasons for no online play with BW2, which i remember reading on their forums a month or so after release - they said they had made a multiplayer mode, but it was laggier than hell even on a high-speed connection on account of the graphics and the physics and all the other things that make it look good. There was no way of optimising it.

Anyway, i'm currently annoyed at EA for the valid reason of their paranoia. They put ridiculous copy-protection on Battlefield 2142, so that it wouldn't run on my PC. It kept asking to insert the disc. After a week of being frustrated trying everything i could, i gave up and sold it to a friend for the stupid price of £6. Now he has the same problems. Not to mention that stats are a bit borked on BF2 right now, and have been for weeks, with no attempt to fix them.

**sapi** · 07-07-2007, 14:24

EA deserves to be lynched for their handling BF2 alone...

**Warmaster Horus** · 07-07-2007, 14:29

Vote:EA

Seriously, the company that annoys me the most is Rockstar, insisting on a long wait between the release of a GTA game on Playstation, and the release on PC.

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 07-07-2007, 15:44

Sierra. Probably a very trivial reason, but they refuse to offer support to those trying to run games released prior to the post-BETA release of Vista. Terrible if these games are almost impossible to run completely stably on the majority of days. When I tried to contact them regarding the issues, I received an automated message telling me to politely get lost.

Other than that annoyance, I have never had any problems with gaming companies really. Of course there are across the board issues, not releasing a game even though they have it polished to perfection, creating patches which create more bugs than they successfully fix etc. However, almost all companies do it and it is impossible to go through every one in existence.

**Whacker** · 07-07-2007, 16:11

Bethesda.

For making millions of poor misguided souls believe that slapping the "RPG" label on a FPS magically somehow makes it a RPG.

For having one of the absolute worst PR/marketing divisions in the known universe. The amount of garbage, spin, and blatant lies they spew would make the most unscrupulous used car salesman blush.

Which reminds me, I still haven't posted in the PC Gaming is Dying thread yet.

**TinCow** · 07-08-2007, 21:38

Sierra - For destroying Origin, one of the best game developers ever.
Interplay - Responsible for the vast majority of all of my favorite games. Yet they somehow screwed it all up and destroyed themselves and several subsidiary developers as well.

**Abokasee** · 07-13-2007, 20:21

Originally Posted by currywurry

You're quite rightly annoyed with EA but for all the wrong reasons.

1) It was Will Wright's decision to push back the release date on Spore. EA as the publisher were the one's who announced it. For once they realise that this is potentially a game made of pure win if it is done right, so they're letting him have as much time as he wants.

As i've said in the past, get off your high horse with your hate of EA when it comes to the Spore release date. Check your facts.

2) There are valid reasons for no online play with BW2, which i remember reading on their forums a month or so after release - they said they had made a multiplayer mode, but it was laggier than hell even on a high-speed connection on account of the graphics and the physics and all the other things that make it look good. There was no way of optimising it.

Anyway, i'm currently annoyed at EA for the valid reason of their paranoia. They put ridiculous copy-protection on Battlefield 2142, so that it wouldn't run on my PC. It kept asking to insert the disc. After a week of being frustrated trying everything i could, i gave up and sold it to a friend for the stupid price of £6. Now he has the same problems. Not to mention that stats are a bit borked on BF2 right now, and have been for weeks, with no attempt to fix them.

I stand corrected then, will wright is forgiven... just