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Article #26835EA Games not worth the money
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:35
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:35
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During the Holiday season quite a lot of individuals will be inclined to go out and buy a game such as Generals, Generals-Zero Hour and the rest that are put on the market by Electronic Arts. If you have ever considered to do such a thing, first and foremost prepare to be cursed by the individual for whom you've bought the game. Here is why: most of the EA games are full of splash screens that look very nice on their own, however, the performance of the game is very inferior when the alternatives are taken into consideration. The online option of the EA games is very poor in performance, very, very slow even with 512k ADSL, the imbeciles at EA blame the ISP, which is rubbish. due to the poor performance of the EA games, I am inclined to believe that they have been written in JAVA or by C/C++ idiots. quite often the user will encounter hardware compatibility issues which in order to solve them it will require a major hardware upgrade, such as motherboard, video card, hard disk, extra RAM and so on, which escalates the cost of the game and problems. Another turn-off is the fact that EA games use the GameSpy network, which again slow the game performance (my best advice, look on the box, if you see the word GameSpy, dropped like a hot potato, because is junk, on borders on individual's privacy). The worst aspect is the overall user interface, be prepared to go through something like 8 to 10 different screens until the user will reach the option that will enable him/her to play the game.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.per.connect.com.au!not-for-mail From: "who else" <no_spam@anti_spam.org> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer, alt.games.command-n-conq.red-alert, aus.games Subject: EA Games not worth the money Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:35:15 +1100 Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <bs3t11$fmb$1@yeppa.connect.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.63.59.221 X-Trace: yeppa.connect.com.au 1072002913 16075 203.63.59.221 (21 Dec 2003 10:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@connect.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 2003 10:35:13 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit