The new Battlefield 1943 is apparently now almost working, and some people in Australia have managed to get on and get through a game, adjusting – as usual – for the lag.
And – good news! They’re going to set up some local servers, thereby making the game actually playable!
Weirdly, they seem to consider that this is doing us some kind of a favour:
I had to fight hard to get this after we got the sales numbers and Australia had really low sales numbers, it was 8 times less than Japan, 24 times less than the UK, and 34 times less than the USA! I hope I see this change so I can add even more servers in your region!
We need to buy the game first to justify them making it playable? That seems a bit arse-backwards to me.
I hope Gordon explained to his bosses that the REASON for the low take-up might be that Australians are sick of online games that are nigh-on unplayable due to lag. We might have put up with it by buying COD4 and L4D in large numbers – but that naive goodwill was sure to run out eventually. Maybe it has now.
July 11, 2009 at 8:59 am
Thanks to long time detractor and critical thinker Joaby for pointing me in this direction
http://whengamessuck.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/ea-may-retire-this-game-after-30-days-notice-posted-on-www-ea-com/#comment-299
Nah it’s fine Jeremy I’m sure you came up with this all on your own! lol
July 11, 2009 at 9:04 am
Yeah, Joaby invented teh internets and all the games blogs.
July 11, 2009 at 9:10 am
It’s right there dude. In black and white.
“If you really want to whine about something, why not make mention of the sheer arrogance involved in not immediately providing Australia with servers for this Online only FPS and then having the gall to complain about relatively low pick up rates in the region.”
Nah, even though I said all of that in a comment on your blog post which you responded directly to, I’m sure you didn’t derive any inspiration from it at all.
You’re not just an idiot, you can’t give credit. Amazing.
July 11, 2009 at 9:15 am
Duh, obviously it’s in the comments that you mentioned it. So? That’s not why I posted about it.
That you think you’ve earned some kind of “credit” in your interactions here is hilarious.
July 11, 2009 at 9:17 am
Yeah ok. You finally post something remotely intelligent apart from the time you retracted your call about Mirror’s Edge being the best game of 2008 after only playing the demo and you think you thought it up yourself.
*thumbs up*
July 11, 2009 at 9:18 am
You must be the life of the party in real life, mate.
July 11, 2009 at 9:27 am
Like a little kid with a dog called Dollar.
That’s how rich that statement is.
July 11, 2009 at 9:34 am
Fuck you’re predictable.
Quick, run back and “pwn” me again. Gimp.
July 11, 2009 at 9:43 am
You knew I’d make a statement abstractly referring to richie rich?
Perhaps all your critical thinking powers have been drained thanks to all the predictive abilities you apparently have.
July 11, 2009 at 9:47 am
I knew you’d be back in ten minutes with another lame “serving”.
July 11, 2009 at 9:50 am
Wow, imagine, you could have avoided all of this if you’d just given credit where it’s due.
July 11, 2009 at 9:51 am
Naturally instead of admitting you’re wrong you’ll staunchly stand by your unreasonable and unrealistic expectations to try and save some face by being a stubborn jackass.
July 11, 2009 at 9:52 am
Joaby, I didn’t come across that link through you. My response is to the content of that link – you may have mentioned it before I posted on it, but your contribution was only to make it less palatable to write about it. I felt it needed comment in spite of your remark, not because of it.
July 11, 2009 at 9:55 am
Trying to save some face by being a stubborn jackass, I see.
July 11, 2009 at 10:01 am
I’m not going to respond – you can have the last word on that. I will just note that I will be deleting further off-topic ranting about Joaby’s precious “credit”. This kind of shit makes a blog an unpleasant place for people to visit and discourages commenters who AREN’T self-obsessed drama queens.
July 11, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I think Joaby would find it pretty hard to make this blog a more unpleasant place than it already is. Anyway, it would be so easy to just say “thanks to Joaby for pointing this out to me” and you wouldn’t have him bagging you.
July 11, 2009 at 10:49 pm
“I think Joaby would find it pretty hard to make this blog a more unpleasant place than it already is.”
Why?
“Anyway, it would be so easy to just say “thanks to Joaby for pointing this out to me” and you wouldn’t have him bagging you.”
IT wasn’t posted because of Joaby’s suggestion. It was posted, as I said, in spite of it.
There’s no reason to thank that arrogant, abrasive, self-satisfied, sanctimonious jerk for anything.
July 13, 2009 at 8:57 am
Hahahaha, so it was posted in spite of what I said. So you recognised that I said it first and then you decided to SPITE me.
Solid move, thief.
July 13, 2009 at 9:16 am
I think I shall keep Joaby on for teh lulz.
July 13, 2009 at 12:13 pm
No, you’ll keep him on so it doesn’t look like you inserted the tampon in the wrong hole and got angry about it.
July 13, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Prob keep me on so he can rip off more ideas from me.
July 13, 2009 at 1:53 pm
What are you, twelve?
July 13, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Hey, stop it. All this flaming is detracting from EA hating
August 10, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Joaby, clearly you’re not getting to him enough. I got “banned” after only one thread.
http://whengamessuck.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/when-hardware-manufacturers-make-you-send-their-faulty-plastic-shit-back-through-the-post/#comments
August 11, 2009 at 9:34 am
After you openly admitted you were merely trolling, yes.
And why are you back?