Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 8 mo. ago

EA has suddenly and permanently changed the prices for Command and Conquer (decreased prices, close to historic lows)

www.pcgamesn.com EA has suddenly and permanently changed the prices for Command and Conquer

The Command and Conquer Steam prices have been changed by EA, as the classic RTS game series gets a permanent and very welcome overhaul.

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No no no no no... EA cant do something cool and good for consumers, someone slipped with a decimal place.
- I'm convinced its a mistake, especially given that origin hasn't dropped the price
  
  I got them for free on origin years ago. But either way, they're old games.
- It's still a much better experience when pirated, since there's no DRM. Also, it'll make you feel glad you didn't pay for it when you learn they wasted the entire budget for C&C4 on a movie set and an "unbreakable" DRM that someone cracked within a few hours after the launch. They also killed the series with a very cheesy "and everyone lived happily ever after" with that one, and I never forgave them for it.
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- Old meme, EA hasn't been half-bad for years. Ubisoft, ActiBlizz and Nintendo are the current worst.
  
  Bro, it's a Corporation. Just when you trust them they WILL stab you in the back.
  
  They WILL fuck up Mass Effect 4 somehow.
  
  All corpos are evil
  
  Did EA actually do anything to get better? From my point of view all they've done is stop getting worse—they're still in the shitty hole they spent 2 decades digging
  
  Still waiting for actual updates to jedi survivor on PC
  
  IDK, I usually don't bother ranking companies if they're below some level. EA requires their launcher on a lot of their games, and that alone puts them on the "terrible" list.
  
  Nintendo at least makes good games with minimal BS, so I'm more likely to give them a pass than the others since they make mediocre games with a lot of BS to deal with.
  
  EA just canned a Mandalorian game for seemingly no reason. They still can't Star Wars.
  
  Add Square to the list. They have had the absolute worst PC ports with zero updates.
  
  I heard the remastered collection was half decent too, but it's still too little too late. That company has done so much damage to the whole industry for so long that I just want to see it burn to the ground to release all those rights and licenses to those franchises to studios that actually mean well.
  
  I get that corporations are all ultimately after your money and nothing else, but I'm curious why Nintendo is on here. As far as game companies, the only thing I really see from them that's kind of ass is their hyperprotectiveness of their own IPs. It sucks, but I don't need a battlepass to get the full experience of the next Mario game. Zelda doesn't require an always online connection. Metroid Prime 4 is actually gonna be finished on release instead of just shipping it in a terrible state
  
  True enough I guess, I cant remember the last specific thing they did that pissed me off.
  
  True, they were just so bad for so long that trashing them sort of became the default. I have to like, rewire my brain so I can treat them fairly.
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- Keep the CDs though. Going all digital and being tied to DRM is never a good idea in the long run.
  
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- While it's nice that EA did something not predatory for once, GOG had a dirt cheap bundle over the summer.
  
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So, what studio is EA going to shut down to offset the good karma from doing this?

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