@Magikf1ngers"If that's not greed - I don't know what is." Because I am capitalist by principle, I do not see the flaws in greed. We are all greedy. If not, we would be such humble, that we would make no progress at all. Humbleness is a nice personal value, but not, if you want to have a striving economy and progress. One would need to examine the market in deepth to see what is going wrong (I think there is a lot going wrong in all markets, btw.).
Personally, it hurts me a lot, when games like Titanfall, Anthem or Mirror's Edge, with so much potential and good ideas, are dumped into trifle. Let it be greed, okay. But why is the greed not focused on making a genius product and get a golden nose with many people buying the franchise for decades? I do not see the entrepreneur thinking behind making a bad product, selling it to only a fraction of people and get the hate of the deceived and disappointed consumers for it. If I would be an entrepreneur, it would hurt my honor.
It is the problem of all monopolies and lack of competition (" It's been really good until EA took over management of DICE." There you have it.). Without competition, you have no incentive to constantly strive to be better - in product as well as in business - because there is no other, which could be better than you and eventually push you out of the market. The people will buy your stuff anyway. Monopolies existens in the market, but the market theory sees them short lived because of the model of the "* economicus", which unfortunatly does not existens in reality. The people are not rational thinking and so the market is very slow to remove monopolies. As long as the people buy EA products and there is no threat for their business, so long this policy of EA will exist.
Take me, for example. I bought Anthem for a few bugs lately and still play it. Why? Because I like the game and the setting (I am a fan of such scifi mech- or suit stuff), because there is no other game like it. I like being a mercenery Iron Man on Pandora and have the freedom to simply fly around and look, what the next corner brings me. But it hurts me so much, that the game is not better or lied about what they promised on the E3. I would bought it for full prise and recommended it to my friends, if it would be, like they promised.
Same with Titanfall 2. The story is genius. Works well for a singleplayer game and even better for a multiplayer game (How many multiplayer games have a good singleplayer story?). Watched tutorials to become better for MP and boom, does not work. I regret buying it, because I dived so much into the story and world, that I wanted more.
Wow, a staggering 401 posts on the subject of TF2 server Dossing.
No solution or calming words offered up by Respawn or EA .
Excepting EA David who offered up something, which is to his credit.
No fix as yet.
The 'hacker' from what I've gleaned seems to hate the Russians and various other races.
Has carried on the attacks over a huge length of time, years and years without any remorse at all.
It's become quiet an unhealthy obsession.
Anyway, heard about this 'Northstar client'. Looks promising. Possibly our only salvation?
Waiting a bit to see how it goes.
Unreal Tournament was extremely successful in it's day due to modding etc.
Fortunately I only play TF2 on EA.
Wouldn't get any more on this platform.
It's just not a good long term bet.
As EA are worth $42 billion they just won't care about that even slightly.
Ok, get the same issues on XBOX ONE. If this is a hack, has ANYONE reported this to the FBI or Interpol?
@JoshuaWarrior EA would need to report it, since it's their server system. They won't, because they don't want to admit there's a problem.
It's fascinating, in the worst possible way, that this still isn't fixed. Googling 'Titanfall 2 down 2021' will show quite a few pages that each and everyone points to downed servers due to hackers and DDoS attacks - some affirming that this is currently the case. This is hardly new to us, but it does take the talking point of this being a client based issue and toss it out the window, along with bs like "it's being handled". We know it's not. We know it's not a problem on our - the clients - end. We know it's not being handled - unless 'poorly' is deemed an adequate way of handling things. We know this, and both EA and Respawn knows this. It would be proper to have this acknowledged at this point. Preferably along side a statement of what we reasonably can come to expect in regards to this going forward.
