Journal #6123

Posted 14 years ago2009-10-10 22:00:31 UTC
Thanks to a fellow mod member, It's now 02:50am and I've just finished downloading Dead Space, Mercenaries 2 and Mirrors Edge are being downloaded as I type this. The best part? All completely free!

That's right folks, EA fucked up.

If you live in the UK, add said three games to your basket and start downloading before EA realise what they've done. But as I said it's nearly 3am right now, so by the time you all read this I'm assuming it will be morning, and by then it may be too late!

It seems a lot of people caught on and got downloading, so numerous threads on multiple forums started popping up discussing what EA can do about it, the result being jack SHIT. But who knows, maybe they can? But it's too late now since so many people have downloaded.

Personally I think EA can't do anything and won't, but we'll see!

Have fun.

31 Comments

Commented 14 years ago2009-10-10 23:28:40 UTC Comment #54064
So you're just pirating games? I don't see how this is better than the usual techniques.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 00:19:23 UTC Comment #54079
Fair game is fair game. Is it ethical? Maybe not. Is it legal? Most likely it is. This case is no different then when Best Buy's web store once posted their Samsung 52 inch LCD TV's for a rock bottom price of $9.99!!! The Best Buy site instantly got thousands of paid orders for those big screen TV's.

Of course, Best Buy refused to deliver the TV's and instead refunded the money back to most of the customers who ordered them. Now, I say most of the customers, because Best Buy was forced by State Law to deliver the TV's to the first 5 customers who ordered them at $9.99. Now that's what I call a deal!

Source: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/08/12/buy-999-tv-lucky-customers/
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 02:51:39 UTC Comment #54055
How is that pirating?
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 03:26:54 UTC Comment #54065
You're getting games for free, presumably when the owner would like you to pay money for it. Just because EA fucked up doesn't mean it's not piracy - you're exploiting a bug in the system. But feel free to download it and tell yourself that you haven't pirated it, if you're the type who enjoys placebos.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 08:48:54 UTC Comment #54084
Mmm... Placebo...
I don't live in the UK, though... :(
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 11:49:53 UTC Comment #54062
Karma.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 14:22:13 UTC Comment #54071
Penguinboy - If I can get a game for free I will, EA are a rather disliked company anyway so I'm completely comfortable with the fact that I've downloaded it.

Infact, I downloaded it using the EA download manager, so that makes it quite humerous too.

Oh, and it's NOT piriting, what if someone went onto that website that night to buy those three games and got them for free, is he suddenly a pirate? Nope, he was just unaware. If the website says it's free, it's free. Wether you were exploiting it intentionally or not makes no difference.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 14:55:18 UTC Comment #54077
In my opinion, it IS pirating. But its EA, so who gives a shit?

Those corporate bastards don't deserve our money.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 15:36:39 UTC Comment #54063
They're not all bad, heck they gave my friend a job and invited me down to review their game so yeah D:
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 17:55:22 UTC Comment #54080
I know EA was once considered the world's largest and richest game publisher in the world. I don't know if they still are, but either way it is surprising that a company that big and powerful will let an error like that happen to them. There was a time when most of the top 10 games at any given moment were all from EA. How the mighty have fallen........
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 17:58:34 UTC Comment #54061
"EA GAMES! - purchase challenge everything"
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 21:17:55 UTC Comment #54056
EA aren't anywhere near as bad as they used to be. You should now all be raging at Activision. Get with the times.

Also, yes that is pirating. You're just making yourself feel better about it by downloading it for free from the official site rather than downloading it for free from other less legal sources. But it's the same shit.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-11 23:20:26 UTC Comment #54066
"Those corporate bastards don't deserve our money."

If they weren't making any money from us, they wouldn't be making any games. EA produces some pretty damn good games, I can't imagine what the game industry would be like without them. Just because they make a lot of money selling games, they're no-good goddamned corprit bastards?
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-12 01:38:33 UTC Comment #54068
Second.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-12 02:44:03 UTC Comment #54067
Strangely I don't feel the same way about Microsoft's products, Windows in particular, because I feel it is vastly overpriced and prohibitively expensive to purchase as standalone software. If they sold their OS for something like $50 dollars a pop, they would dramatically decrease piracy, and probably encourage more people to buy it in the first place.

When the corporations are bigger thieves than the so-called pirates, copyright infringement is downright practical. But considering that all games are priced the same when new, how can you possibly justify piracy from EA over Valve, or any other game company?
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-12 04:52:47 UTC Comment #54069
Microsoft should die.

Better yet, Microsoft should get some better compedetors.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-12 14:56:18 UTC Comment #54072
Trapt: I'm not making myself feel better by downloading for free from EA, because even if I DID pirate it... I wouldn't give a damn.

:D
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-12 19:16:22 UTC Comment #54085
Microsoft needs to stop releasing bad software and fix the broken stuff they have released.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-12 20:27:07 UTC Comment #54081
Apparently they started doing exactly that, JeffMOD. Case in point: Windows 7. Of course, they still have other products that still need some work.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-13 01:38:05 UTC Comment #54057
this is the lowest form of piracy, because you're trying to justify it. what has EA ever done to fuck up your life? tell me, i'm longing to know.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-13 06:16:22 UTC Comment #54073
The huge dissapointment I had with Spore kept me awake for many nights, oh and all that hidden DRM shit they put it in yet told you nothing about.

Due to my lack of sleep I lost all my friends and my gf, then started going suicidal and as a result lost my left leg. DAMN YOU EA.

Trapt It's simple, EA fucked up and I took advantage, wether you think it's pirating or not I couldn't give a flying shit about, now stop crying.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-13 06:21:03 UTC Comment #54078
I lol'd
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-13 10:34:26 UTC Comment #54082
@ Livewire: Don't forget the part about how EA drove you also to be a chronic alcoholic. HeHe.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-13 11:14:19 UTC Comment #54074
Yeah Tito, but because of my severe depression I try not to talk about it. Those were dark days for me and all I can say is that Scotch made it a little more barable, I still have flashbacks of the Tribal Stage, it reduces me to tears.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-13 11:36:26 UTC Comment #54083
Diagnosis from Doctor Tito for you to get better: Try to see if you can do more free downloads from EA, it should help you on your recovery. Scotch is good. I myself am a Rum and Tequila nut.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-14 02:01:00 UTC Comment #54058
if you're putting this out there in a journal, i can comment with whatever the fuck i want. like it not, opinions are not correct or incorrect. so stop telling me i'm wrong, you fucking cockhead.

this is pirating. you're trying to justify it. that is extremely low.

let's not forget that by pirating these games out of your hate for EA (who is a fucking PUBLISHER YOU FUCKING MORON) you're fucking over the developers (ie the PEOPLE WHO FUCKING WORKED TO MAKE THE GAMES, NOT EA). i'm beginning to wonder if you know anything about video games...

Mirror's Edge is one of my favourite games and DICE deserve all the sales they can get for it. it is a wonderfully creative and unique game and they deserve to be rewarded for taking such a creative risk, and then there is faggots like you pirating it.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-14 03:55:21 UTC Comment #54070
1: Ooh, snap!
2: He has a point.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-14 14:53:53 UTC Comment #54075
ITT: Trapt being butthurt.

"opinions are not correct or incorrect" So it's your opinion you think I'm a cockhead. Just as it's my opinion I think you're a whiny little bitch.

Oh, and I'm well aware EA is a publisher, thanks. :)
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-15 02:48:32 UTC Comment #54059
ITT: you just got fucking owned and have no comebacks. well done asshole.
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-15 08:25:06 UTC Comment #54076
sigh

Trapt, you havent "fucking owned" me, and no, I don't have any comebacks, because I'm not gunna turn on the caps key and show everyone how angry I am like you have.

You'll eventually realise that I don't give a fuck who I fucked over getting these three games, for example; EA messed up which caused DICE to lose sales with Mirrors Edge... and as a result, tough luck DICE.

I never pirated the games out of my hate for EA, I had the chance to get three free games.... So I did. I just never give a shit because it was EA who messed up.

Trapt seriously, you're just yelling at me and saying things because you think I've pirated three games... Ok so say I have... big deal? I'm sure you won't become an alcoholic, lose sleep and friends, eventually become suicidal and lose you left leg like I did with Spore. :)

I'm not posting about this anymore, I'm getting tired of having to reply all the time, just so I can sit here and have you tell me I'm such a naughty boy!
Commented 14 years ago2009-10-17 06:50:20 UTC Comment #54060
yes, Spore ruined your life. if you let Spore ruin your life, you deserved it for playing such a shit game and being such a fucking idiot.

enjoy your disabilities.

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