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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Why EA why?

EA or Electronic Arts started a trend that is sad and destructive for the gaming industry, the bug and no support trend. EA games have the habit of often showing bugs that range from the little graphic or physics glitch to the complete restart of the computer. Of course it is sometimes impossible to prevent all, even some major bugs, from escaping the QA (Quality Assurance in which certain player play the game over and over to find bugs).
The problem with games published by EA (not all of them just most of them) is that for one they show more bugs then your average tennis racket holes. The second great problem is denial which looks like this.
Gamer:" I found a bug, please fix it." Now this message is send many times, by many, many different individuals and the answer if any comes looks like this. EA:"THERE IS NO BUG."
Now third problem is that EA releases an average of 1-2 patches per game, these patches fix game balance issues and some graphical issues or physics issues, maybe even some of all three. But not the bugs that make the game crash or the computer restart for that you than will need a new sound or graphic card or maybe something entirely different that I have not thought of...
Now why is it that EA continues to survive even though many of their games a full of horrible bugs?

P.S.: If you buy an EA game you might want to check around on forums if there are many known problems or not, and do not forget some EA games do NOT like onboard sound or graphic cards.

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