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lack of respect, oblivious or other? – warhammer online

02 Jul

A day after Canada Day, one of the biggest national holidays in Canada, EA|Bioware|Mythic announces that they are doing 4-5 days of celebration from Friday-Tuesday for the American July 4th celebration.

It seems to me like it would not have been that big of a deal to include 1 additional day and let the Canadian subscribers get in on their holiday as well.

While this does rub me the wrong way and I do feel a bit dis-respected, I post this more to bring up the type of conversation that I created this blog for. What would prompt a gaming company to make a decision like this? I find it hard to believe that EA|Bioware|Mythic was unaware of Canada Day, so was it a business decision to not include it so that they would not have issues with other countries holidays expecting to be included or celebrated? Other reasons perhaps?

Either way, Happy Canada Day and Fourth of July to Canadian’s and Americans. Enjoy your bonus exp and renown!

ps. “EA|Bioware|Mythic hates Canada” t-shirts and bumper stickers are still in production, but will be available for purchase soon!

 
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Posted in Bioware, EA, Mythic, Warhammer

 

$20 off any game at EA.com

29 Mar

Hi Guys, just found a cool coupon code that might make purchasing a new game easier! :)

Use coupon code PAXEAST842 at checkout and get $20 US off any game at the EA Store.

http://eastore.ea.com/

Some game suggestions to use the coupon on:

Battlefield Bad Company2

Dragon Age Origins

Mass Effect 2

Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twighlight

Medal Of Honor  (Pre-Order)

 
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Posted in Battlefield BC2, EA, Gaming, Online Gaming, Software Deals

 

Battlefield BC2 – Great game if you can “get into it”

16 Mar

I have been having a lot of fun with BC2 lately. I am pretty horrible at FPS, but I can reach pretty average skill if I play the game a decent amount.

BC2 is a fun game to play and looks amazing. It has all the features you want in a FPS war game and the destructable environments keeps things interesting and different, almost making maps kind of random in how they play from game to game.

The issues with BC2 almost all revolve around the master server and Punkbuster. The master server system seems to really slow down the server browsing interface to the point that actually getting into a game can take up to 15minutes. Searching and refreshing the server list takes a long time, and it seems I get weird disconnects right after connecting to many servers.

Friend lists in BC2 have been quite flakey. People don’t seem to get friend requests sometimes or they take a long time to get to them. At one point last week, friends lists were completely cleared from a lot (or all?) people during a maintence. Connecting to a friends server often fails, but gives no useable error message. (I assume the server is full)

Some things that have helped were updating the Punkbuster using the PBSetup and also reinstalling the PBService. Both can be found at www.evenbalance.com.

I am sure the server issues will only get better and the game is great, so if you are on the fence, don’t let this be a negative review. I am happy with my purchase of BC2, I just wish some of these issues with connections could get ironed out faster.

props: Amigo

 
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