"EA Switches Off Facebook Titles And Keeps The Cash"
I'm awake at 3:30am for no good reason, so might as well rant about something I saw on Google Reader, I guess.
So, it looks like EA is shutting down their shitty Facebook games. And nothing of value will be lost on that day. I'd say that I feel bad for the players who are going to lose money on these games when they get pulled, but... well... I don't. Not in the slightest bit. Those players actively chose to spend money on terrible Facebook games of their own volition, after all, so I have absolutely zero sympathy for them. Maybe this will serve as a lesson to them not to squander money on such asinine, pointless things in the future.
Two of the very, very few Facebook games I have ever tried to play, briefly, were Dragon Age Legends and The Sims Social. The second one I played over the span of a few days, up to the point where I simply could not progress at all without either spamming my Facebook f-list or paying EA actual money to get in-game fake money, both of which were things that I'd rather chug a full bottle of Drano than do. Until it got to that point, it was similar to playing a stripped down, half-assed version of The Sims 1. Well, at least for maybe 10 minutes or so at a time, anyway, before the arbitrary timers kicked in that prevented you from playing at all unless you coughed up some money, which is typical of pretty much all FB games, at least as far as my very limited experience with such things goes. Anyway, after being frustrated that I couldn't do anything in the game anymore, I had the sudden revelation that if I wanted to play The Sims, I could just, you know, play the actual Sims games that I already owned, which are infinitely better than the fucking Facebook version of them, despite being increasingly infected with EA-taint of their own in other ways, especially in the case of The Sims 3.
With all of that said, however, both Dragon Age Legends and The Sims Social were still better than the goddamn Secret War.
So, it looks like EA is shutting down their shitty Facebook games. And nothing of value will be lost on that day. I'd say that I feel bad for the players who are going to lose money on these games when they get pulled, but... well... I don't. Not in the slightest bit. Those players actively chose to spend money on terrible Facebook games of their own volition, after all, so I have absolutely zero sympathy for them. Maybe this will serve as a lesson to them not to squander money on such asinine, pointless things in the future.
Two of the very, very few Facebook games I have ever tried to play, briefly, were Dragon Age Legends and The Sims Social. The second one I played over the span of a few days, up to the point where I simply could not progress at all without either spamming my Facebook f-list or paying EA actual money to get in-game fake money, both of which were things that I'd rather chug a full bottle of Drano than do. Until it got to that point, it was similar to playing a stripped down, half-assed version of The Sims 1. Well, at least for maybe 10 minutes or so at a time, anyway, before the arbitrary timers kicked in that prevented you from playing at all unless you coughed up some money, which is typical of pretty much all FB games, at least as far as my very limited experience with such things goes. Anyway, after being frustrated that I couldn't do anything in the game anymore, I had the sudden revelation that if I wanted to play The Sims, I could just, you know, play the actual Sims games that I already owned, which are infinitely better than the fucking Facebook version of them, despite being increasingly infected with EA-taint of their own in other ways, especially in the case of The Sims 3.
With all of that said, however, both Dragon Age Legends and The Sims Social were still better than the goddamn Secret War.