Oh boy, I sure enjoy being alive

Th-thanks EA

>sauce
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>10
>27
>2017
>news

it hasn't even been 2018 for a month yet
quit being a nigger

Console corporate mentality strikes again
>you must only play new games
>fuck the past and the games you liked
>here's a new one, you like this instead
>until the next one, you better buy that too

I'm surprised they even got away with it at all and that EA didn't shut them down sooner.

Weren't they redistributing the client too?

I think so. I heard a claim that 2142 was abandonware or something like that.

>I think so.
Holy shit, how didn't they end up with a lawsuit?

Even though corpates control everything they still have to justify when they sue people. And Its hard to sue someone for pirating a product your company no longer sells anymore.

I wonder why Return of Reckoning was allowed to do their work with no threat of being shut down. You'd think with the combination of EA and Games Workshop that there would be no hope.

>You'd think with the combination of EA and Games Workshop that there would be no hope.
GW has kinda been whoring out their licenses recently like mad, wouldn't hurt to have MORE brand exposure

>break law
>get in trouble
EA needs to die but that doesn't justify what they did

It's just that it's basically a dead game being recreated by fans, I figured since there was literally no way they could make money (nor any real way to control it) they'd want it shut down. Made their money off the original license deal, I guess.

>break law
>buy trying to play video games you paid for

Honestly why do people even buy games anymore?

>Honestly why do people even buy games anymore?

>implicating

The redistributing BF2 and 2142 because EA no longer sold them (they pulled them off Steam and Origin due to Gamespy's shutdown), so they thought it was basically "abandonware."

The reason EA didn't sue them into the ground was two fold: 1) They're fans and you don't want to piss off fans that may buy the later/newer entries in the series and 2) what would they get from damages from a rag-tag group of people that cobbled together the online ability again when EA didn't?

>1) They're fans and you don't want to piss off fans
I mean, if they REALLY cared, BF3/4/1 wouldn't have been hot garbage, honestly I can imagine they don't see their fanbase as more thank drooling wallets

>2) what would they get from damages from a rag-tag group of people that cobbled together the online ability again when EA didn't?
True, good for scaring people out of doing stuff like that but I could see it killing their rep even more than it's been destroyed, be nice to see them go under so we can do whatever with the games but that's a bit of a pipe dream

>as more thank
>thank
How does this keep happening?

based ea closing shitty games

At this point I'm just waiting for the western vidya market to crash and burn.
Everyone at EA deserves to be homeless for what they did to Westwood.

>Pandemic
>Bioware
>Bullfrog
>Maixs

>Pandemic
If I had a Dammaz Kron, this shit would just fill every single page forever.

Pic could really use Dungeon Keeper mobile in it somewhere. Now that's IP assassination.