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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17185 Posts
On October 10 2020 00:07 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1314580544685051905 The site at https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1314580544685051905 has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because an error in the data transmission was detected. This is what I get from that tweet  Edit: Apparently Twitter and Firefox do not go hand in hand. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16382 Posts
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e0ac/faf6893347a21cab5c90462dd9c99a76f211.pdf Why does EA make their hockey games in Canada? Because they can get dozens of people willing to sink the entire lives into making the greatest hockey game ever made. No one in Tennessee, New Mexico, or South Carolina is nearly so willing to do so. Wow, what a shocker. These employees should not be infantalized. They are living in one of the richest nations on earth and have a plethora of career choice options. In Canada, its not that big of a deal to work your ass off from 17 to 20 and make yourself marketable to US companies thereby greatly increasing your job possibilities. The industry can be best described by the quote in my sig. That is how creatives are viewed by the financial people who run the industry. That quote is over 40 years old. Same Shit... different decade. I say, pull a David Crane and GTFO. Whining about it on twitter is a waste of time. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Zambrah
United States7107 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17185 Posts
How long can this continue? | ||
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Acrofales
Spain17831 Posts
On October 14 2020 16:52 Manit0u wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-erT4AlKuc How long can this continue? Does anybody buy it? | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17185 Posts
FIFA 21 is #1 bought game in UK (Switch version accounts for 2% of their sales). Go figure. Worldwide FIFA 18 & 19 sold around 25m copies each. FIFA 20 was well over 10 million. We're talking about the biggest sports game franchise in the world. Of course people will buy it. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On October 15 2020 01:52 Manit0u wrote: FIFA 21 is #1 bought game in UK (Switch version accounts for 2% of their sales). Go figure. Worldwide FIFA 18 & 19 sold around 25m copies each. FIFA 20 was well over 10 million. We're talking about the biggest sports game franchise in the world. Of course people will buy it. and this doesn't even include the revenue from their microtransactions. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17185 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12128 Posts
On October 14 2020 12:58 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So Blizzard closed their office in Versailles, France laying off all 285 people. Now they plan to Strike, not sure how that does anything. But if it's all French employees that might cause a headache. https://twitter.com/TaliesinEvitel/status/1316140939006672897 I wonder if this is connected  | ||
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Zambrah
United States7107 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain17831 Posts
On October 15 2020 18:21 Zambrah wrote: I don't believe in karma enough to hope that'd be connected lol I don't have a clue about what's going on, but closing an office doesn't seem inherently bad. Employees striking to keep their office open and not lose their job is fairly logical. But doesn't mean the business should keep that office open either. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17185 Posts
On October 15 2020 20:42 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: The reason everything died is because they started pre-load for shadowlands yesterday. Sure someone could have DDOSed them for closing the office or something, but it seems more likely that they just got overloaded because of a major download that everyone wants. Heh, I pre-ordered Shadowlands (with mount and all the jazz) yet I know I will spend 0 time in it as I don't even feel like re-installing WoW. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12128 Posts
On October 15 2020 20:42 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: The reason everything died is because they started pre-load for shadowlands yesterday. Sure someone could have DDOSed them for closing the office or something, but it seems more likely that they just got overloaded because of a major download that everyone wants. Doesn't excuse them to have this breakdown, it's not their first launch of a WoW expansion... (also I believe it was somebody's mistake more than overload from WoW) | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On October 16 2020 05:23 deacon.frost wrote: Doesn't excuse them to have this breakdown, it's not their first launch of a WoW expansion... (also I believe it was somebody's mistake more than overload from WoW) Yeah, they've dealt with prepatch issues in the past. This wasn't the smoothest I've seen but the NA servers at least seemed to settle down quickly, within like 30 minutes or so of it launching me and my guild weren't having any issues connecting/switching characters and things have been stable for the past two days. Not sure why the EU servers are shitting the bed so badly. Perhaps it actually does have something to do with that office shutting down. Not exactly a smart idea to go down in manpower when your userbase is going to have a considerable uptick. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16382 Posts
During testing and electronic expo show demonstrations an arcade game called "Rally X" was universally favoured over Pacman. In 1981, Americans pumped 20 billion quarters into Pacman arcade machines. wow. | ||
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