Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Electronic Arts, especially after finding out that one of their employees visited and read my entry about EA-Land and its servers licking a substantial amount of sweaty balls. Apparently, The EA person was searching google using the keywords "sims online sucks".
On that note, I would like to congratulate Electronic Arts for knowing if a venture is costing them a lot of money just to suck arse. I am not a fan of EA (1), but I have no ill will towards them either. I happen to love playing a few of their games (2), and it's just a simple case of me rejoicing when something that drains cash and doesn't actually do anything worthwhile or fun goes away, hopefully forever.
I'm not about to post a long-ass explanation of why EA land failed, because I have no idea why it did from a technical standpoint. If I knew how to make successful games I would be working for a game company right now, or making games of my own. But I knew from a consumer standpoint that EA Land wasn't going to take off with the game they had at the time. Nevermind that it was free for a while. It doesn't cost anything to eat shit (3) but that doesn't mean that I will. The experience just wasn't fun and it's really boring for a new user who just jumped in. And the fact that servers were not the most stable of things meant that new users won't even be able to jump in all the time, so condolence for having one of your business ventures go down the drain, but congratulations for not being so stuck up your own arse that you fail to realize when a game of yours is broken.
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MF'N FOOTNOTES
1. I still remember the EA spouse debacle years ago
2. especially Need For Speed Carbon
, which is so damn good I actually considered it worth all the time and effort it took me to download all the ISOs off usenet.3. in fact, if you live in Russia there are people who will actually pay you money to eat crap while being videotaped
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EA RACIST!
No, they can't!
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