NFL Punter Kicks The Crap Out Of EA And SimCity

13 responses to “NFL Punter Kicks The Crap Out Of EA And SimCity”

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   trjn

   March 8, 2013 at 6:12 pm

   Isn’t three minutes a lot longer than most punters get per game?

   Oh sportsball.

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   1. 

      beejep

      March 9, 2013 at 12:31 am

      I sure liked it when he kicked the ball into the corner pocked and scored an ace!

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   zoridium_jackl

   March 8, 2013 at 6:14 pm

   “Gotta love a guy who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.”

   no, no I don’t.

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   dogcat

   March 8, 2013 at 7:02 pm

   As punishment EA will probably put him on the cover of Madden 14.

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4. 

   drunkaus

   March 8, 2013 at 7:58 pm

   Wasn’t the reason for the always-on DRM the fact that the game is too demanding for regular PC’s and had to be offloaded onto EA’s servers (to do with the individual Sim AI scripting or something)?

   Knowing this and being post Diablo 3 launch, you would think they would be more prepared.

   The reasoning behind it reminds me of GTAIV for PC, a game built on PC’s for PC’s that don’t exist yet…. well except you could play it offline.

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      andrewdunn

      March 8, 2013 at 8:18 pm

      More likely it’s so EA can introduce microtransactions. Personal computers have been capable of simulating the action of millions of Sims every 4 minutes for years now. If the devs at Maxis couldn’t get it running smoothly, they programmed it wrong… Which would probably explain why the servers are down. Running code in the cloud isn’t going to magically make if faster.

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      fryiee

      March 8, 2013 at 8:56 pm

      If that is the reason, it’s the shittest excuse I’ve ever heard.

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5. 

   bob

   March 8, 2013 at 8:04 pm

   Aaaaah Kluew, he’s so damn awesome 😀

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6. 

   khort

   March 8, 2013 at 9:28 pm

   I haven’t played the game, but I’ve read a bit about it – is that the actual size of the land you are able to use to build your city?
   Seems…rather small.

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7. 

   single_malt

   March 8, 2013 at 10:16 pm

   That last tweet was pretty funny.

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8. 

   blood

   March 8, 2013 at 11:31 pm

   I was going to buy it but with all the bad press on it, I’ll skip it…considering how much I loved building a city up and all, too bad it had EA stench over it.

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9. 

   Wayno@War

   March 9, 2013 at 12:47 am

   I thought the main reason they gave for the always online and cloud computing thing was because online multiplayer is the future and we all needed to be a part of it.

   It’s stupid to think that the sole reason this exists in Sim City is to cater for the folks who are using old hardware.

   Anyway, whatever. Won’t be wasting my dollars on what could have been such a great game.

   I think I like this Kluwe guy. At least more people might become aware of the issues because of a player with some celebrity appeal decides to fire up at EA for the mess they have created.

   On ya bro!

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10. 

    KT

    March 9, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    Show up at your local EA office. Bring some friends with lots of lego. Enter lobby/office have one person sit down and start playing with lego making a “town”. Have friends all line up behind you complaining about wait times. Once three minutes is up, smash town and let another person sit down. Repeat.

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