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gschmidl posted:Never let it be said that I'm not impartial when schadenfreude is to be had. My respect for you just quadrupled like the amount of games in Halo MCC with matchmaking issues. Sounds like loving poo poo, and not even the good kind Seedge posted:Whereas you could pay 10 bucks and own Peggle 2, forever. The sports game are still last years, aren't they? Many playing last years Madden online these days? You're. not. loving. getting. it. I don't even know if it's worth trying to explain it to you but like a special ed teacher i'll give it my best shot. Follow me through this hypothetical. You wake up today, you want to play BF4 to see if it's still a buggy piece of poo poo. You're options 1. Go buy the game full price in a store. Cost 60 dollars/ 40 pounds. Added benefits : you can sell it on next week for half the price when you don't like it Negatives: Lose half your money at resale 2. buy the game digitally. Cost 60 dollars/ 40 pounds. Added benefits : you don't have to move your fat rear end to insert the disc Negatives : no resale 3. Buy the game second hand. Cost 30ish dollars / 20ish pounds. Added benefits :cheaper than retail Negatives : probably previously owned by some sort of gamer : germs. 4. Buy a month of EA access. cost 5 Dollars / 4 pounds per month OR $30/year £20/year Added benefits. You also get full digital versions of last years Madden and last years Fifa. Need for Speed. Peggle 2 and PVZ: Garden Warfare. You also get 6 hours early trials for up coming EA games, right now you can try Dragon Age Inquisition, FIfa 15 and Madden 25. Achievements can be earned and progress carries over into the full game if you purchase it. You also get 10% off all EA digital titles You also get 10% off EA DLC New titles added to the vault all the time. We have seen Need for Speed and Garden Warfare added post EA access' birth. ALl titles are digital so you don't need to move your fat rear end to change disc. Negatives: It took me ages to type this and No resale value I hope that helps. It's a ridiculously good deal, 20 for a year is less than I'd pay for a single one of those games (except peggle) and I guarantee you I wouldn't be playing that title in a year anyway. In a year I imagine the resale value on a physical copy of any of those titles would be around 15 dollars MAX. I will renew my EA access when it subsides in 9 months so I am not worried about losing access to any of those games  But yeah, it's a fuckin rip off because........
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Crafty posted:But yeah, it's a fuckin rip off because........ EA used to release free demos. You want to play BF: Hardline on release? You buy it from EA Access, so you get 10% off €70, which is... the monthly fee you paid to have the discount! Yay. Or you can wait eight months to play it!
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Nov 13, 2014 15:53
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Seedge posted:EA used to release free demos. You want to play BF: Hardline on release? You buy it from EA Access, so you get 10% off €70, which is... the monthly fee you paid to have the discount! Yay. Or you can wait eight months to play it! You're an idiot.
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Seedge posted:EA used to release free demos. And then they released the demo of Battlefield 1942 which was so good that tons of people just played the free demo forever (and the fact that it ran better than the full version due to not having SecuROM helped) and they've been kicking themselves ever since.
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Nov 13, 2014 15:59
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or you could just borrow the game from a friend like a normal person i dunno
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univbee posted:And then they released the demo of Battlefield 1942 which was so good that tons of people just played the free demo forever (and the fact that it ran better than the full version due to not having SecuROM helped) and they've been kicking themselves ever since. I played that demo for at least 30 hours on PC. I also bought it again when they released it on xbox 360 Seedge posted:EA used to release free demos. You want to play BF: Hardline on release? You buy it from EA Access, so you get 10% off €70, which is... the monthly fee you paid to have the discount! Yay. Or you can wait eight months to play it! You're reading comprehension is non existent. Please read through my previous post on EA access and try to figure out why saying "EA USED TO RELEASE FREE DEMOS!!@" is not the right come back. I paused sunset overdrive to type all that, you owe me. Also they didn't release a free demo for madden last year and that was pre EA access! shocking!
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Nov 13, 2014 16:06
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The skate 3 demo was that way, it was plenty for me to play into eternity without ever buying the game.
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Crafty posted:I played that demo for at least 30 hours on PC. I also bought it again when they released it on xbox 360 I like your schtick and all but what did the English language ever do to you 
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Nov 13, 2014 16:25
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paying 5 dollars for a demo of a demo may seem like a small step back for mankind but its actually a giant leap forward for gamers. i honestly dont know why MS didnt make their console free with a mandatory 100/year Live subscription. Boners would pay it, and maybe after a couple years MS could afford to send everyone the rest of the RAM it needs
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Nov 13, 2014 16:36
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fisheyel83l posted:paying 5 dollars for a demo of a demo may seem like a small step back for mankind but its actually a giant leap forward for gamers. They tried that with the 360 and didn't get many takers.
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Crafty posted:I paused sunset overdrive to type all that, you owe me. Sounds more like he did you the favour tbh
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Nov 13, 2014 16:40
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Don Lapre posted:They tried that with the 360 and didn't get many takers. well sure, if you give people a choice they won't. Who'd pay 5 bucks for a demo if you made it available for free?
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Nov 13, 2014 16:41
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I still have that Xbox Lucas Arts Demo Disc they handed out. However that's not the strangest demo disc that was ever handed out. The Gamecube Resident Evil 4 demo disc contained an entirely different build from the final game.
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Nov 13, 2014 16:42
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The very first pressing of the Xbox 1 Evolution Demo Disc that had Capcom vs SNK 2 on it accidentally had the full game entirely on it, except for no online play. I still have that.
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Nov 13, 2014 16:46
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Crafty posted:My respect for you just quadrupled like the amount of games in Halo MCC with matchmaking issues. Sounds like loving poo poo, and not even the good kind Does Ea have your family at gunpoint
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Nov 13, 2014 16:50
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Haquer posted:I like your schtick and all but what did the English language ever do to you I like you're schtick two
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Nov 13, 2014 16:56
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There are a lot of issues with Xbone abd Xbone Live, but I don't think EA Access is one of them. $30/year is a good deal for what you get. If you disagree, I feel like you have to believe that PS+ with it's free games is also a bad deal.
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Nov 13, 2014 16:57
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Bobtista posted:Sounds more like he did you the favour tbh He can't help it. He can't turn it off or he'll miss those cool Internet memes the cloud is gonna put in.
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Nov 13, 2014 16:58
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Halo threads should be used as studies for Stockholm syndrome
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Floridiot posted:He can't help it. He can't turn it off or he'll miss those cool Internet memes the cloud is gonna put in.  Remorseful PS4 owner spotted! The 'internet memes' is actually just sunset TV from youtube - in game. It's actually pretty cool, it streams into the game world on giant TVs. But yeah, it's the worst thing to happen to gaming ever!!1 fisheyel83l posted:well sure, if you give people a choice they won't. Who'd pay 5 bucks for a demo if you made it available for free? I used to pay £4.99 for demos that came with a magazine attached to them. So did all my friends.
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Crafty posted:
LOL if you didn't steal the disc from the cellophane at the grocery store.
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if you just wanted the demo why didn't you just rip it off the magazine and nick it
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Don Lapre posted:LOL if you didn't steal the disc from the cellophane at the grocery store. He has bought an Xbone twice now, of course he bought demo discs. He is bad with money.
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Stux posted:if you just wanted the demo why didn't you just rip it off the magazine and nick it Don Lapre posted:LOL if you didn't steal the disc from the cellophane at the grocery store. loving animals
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Crafty posted:loving animals But this thread has taught people (actively encouraged, even!) to lie about addresses to avoid paying taxes on their out-of-country purchases. When you stare too deep into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.
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morallyobjected posted:But this thread has taught people (actively encouraged, even!) to lie about addresses to avoid paying taxes on their out-of-country purchases. When you stare too deep into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you. If you think buying from a regional store with lower tax and stealing off some old shop keeper are the same thing then you are dumb. A more apt comparison would be taking the magazine and paying for it buy giving the old lady owner behind the counter less money than you're meant to. Which i still think would be worse.
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Crafty posted:If you think buying from a regional store with lower tax and stealing off some old shop keeper are the same thing then you are dumb. lol old shop keeper, I'm talking sainsburys here bruh
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Crafty posted:I like you're schtick two  
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also they can get a reimbursement on that poo poo because for all they know it shipped that way
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Crafty posted:If you think buying from a regional store with lower tax and stealing off some old shop keeper are the same thing then you are dumb. The shopkeeper is less likely to revoke your game licences for tax evasion, too.
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Stux posted:lol old shop keeper, I'm talking sainsburys here bruh Not so bad then. But they have much better security at those places, you wouldn't pull that poo poo now! Seedge posted:The shopkeeper is less likely to revoke your game licences for tax evasion, too. I'm untouchable motherfucker
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Crafty posted:If you think buying from a regional store with lower tax and stealing off some old shop keeper are the same thing then you are dumb. I personally feel bad for loving over mr barnes and mr nobles for stealing that ps1 demo cd
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Don Lapre posted:I personally feel bad for loving over mr barnes and mr nobles for stealing that ps1 demo cd http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/end-of-the-book-for-barnes-noble/ Think that's unrelated?
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Crafty posted:Not so bad then. But they have much better security at those places, you wouldn't pull that poo poo now! don't believe that, worked in one for christmas cover in uni and the security guards didn't give any shits. at the boots where my friend works they will specifically not apprehend people (we can't do anything until they are outside, oh they're outside? well we didn't see them taking the item from the shelf so we can't really do anything, maybe call the police instead???)
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security guards are terrible at everything unless it involves over the top violence in the rare scenarios they are able/want to/care enough to do something
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Crafty posted:I'm untouchable motherfucker The Al Capone of videogames
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What is everybody's experiences with repair/replacement service for the console? My Xbox One intermittently has a problem reading discs and my warranty will be expiring soon. I could send my console in for a repair at my expense (you get a prepaid shipping label I believe, just gotta get packaging) and be without the console 14 to 21 business days. When I get it back I won't have to worry about reinstalling all my stuff assuming they only replace the disc drive. If I do an advanced exchange I pay $15 for expedited shipping along with a $400–$500 credit card hold. But I could get a refurbished unit. I'm probably just paranoid because I do escalations for HTC and work in the behind the scenes and customers will complain about defective replacements and post-repair issues... though this is a different repair center than what Microsoft has. I might just do an advanced exchange... It's been a year since launch so the hardware may be better optimized to not break.
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stux do you hate Mario kart and saints row? And if it's not you, who was that maniac in the last thread who hated fun and loved mobas? I know it's not fame Douglas...
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How bad of a developer do you have to be to be formed specifically to take over Microsoft's flagship series, decide to slap your lovely game together with three good ones (and all the great maps that the last [actually good] developer made) and use it to advertise your game coming out next year and still gently caress it up with how important it is and with all the heavy creative lifting done for you in the last decade by other, competent people. Anim8, stop drawing big blue tits and start slapping your coworkers, thx.
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:What is everybody's experiences with repair/replacement service for the console? My Xbox One intermittently has a problem reading discs and my warranty will be expiring soon. Reddit thread: Waited 2 weeks to have it fixed, xbox support sent it back to me like this. 
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