Thanks for playing ?

[chimeran 208]

o,O so if you used the beta key, E/A considers that "playing" the game ? i waited 3 minutes to login and gave up after that so how did i "play" the game ? so this is how E/A's marketing team cooks the books, very interesting

[jacobhinds 36]

You might've missed one of the features they introduced: Glassbox is a faith-based engine, so if you begin playing the game with a negative, cynical attitude it won't work at all. They tested must've this in the beta. Personally I think this is a great idea and helps keep the servers free of anybody who questions anything in the game.

[Hellken 1,658]

You might've missed one of the features they introduced: Glassbox is a faith-based engine, so if you begin playing the game with a negative, cynical attitude it won't work at all. They tested must've this in the beta. Personally I think this is a great idea and helps keep the servers free of anybody who questions anything in the game.

I ...

..oh dear...

..I can't stop laughing.

[pineapple132 35]

Yeah, EA watches you play................. :kitty:

[LillySatou 117]

worst beta ever

[arcology 224]

You might've missed one of the features they introduced: Glassbox is a faith-based engine, so if you begin playing the game with a negative, cynical attitude it won't work at all. They tested must've this in the beta. Personally I think this is a great idea and helps keep the servers free of anybody who questions anything in the game.

hilarious!

[jacobhinds 36]

I ...

..oh dear...

..I can't stop laughing.

hilarious!

None of you will be laughing in march when you have to pay for yoga and hypnosis just to get on to the menu screen.

[macvirt 361]

You might've missed one of the features they introduced: Glassbox is a faith-based engine, so if you begin playing the game with a negative, cynical attitude it won't work at all.

hilarious!

Hilarious, but completely accurate. The foundation beneath this kind of marketing and sales ventures is a concept known as "I want to believe". It's a combination of variable specific triggers and patterns of user profiles underneath a set of models & inventory of methods for utilising these. At least within this industry, it's not like people do not use this elsewhere Let's be honest, most of our politics and modern economics rest on that syndrome.

One of the more interesting parts of that on a psychological level is how easy it is to generate user trends of "X versus Y" where the concept of criticism is very easily translated in to a state of "anti" which gets equated with disfunctional membership of group dynamics or guidance towards exclusion of those. On a slightly larger level this can also be used very efficiently to enable customers to mobilise themselves based on what is known as unreasonable participation. Maybe some people remember how years ago the drama was between communities and users of Nvidia versus ATI. That history is actually a textbook case of research for this type of marketing today Very handy when it is required to engage in competition between titles / products of same genre and same potential markets.

[Charizard 284]

You might've missed one of the features they introduced: Glassbox is a faith-based engine, so if you begin playing the game with a negative, cynical attitude it won't work at all.

hilarious!

Hilarious, but completely accurate. The foundation beneath this kind of marketing and sales ventures is a concept known as "I want to believe". It's a combination of variable specific triggers and patterns of user profiles underneath a set of models & inventory of methods for utilising these. At least within this industry, it's not like people do not use this elsewhere Let's be honest, most of our politics and modern economics rest on that syndrome.

One of the more interesting parts of that on a psychological level is how easy it is to generate user trends of "X versus Y" where the concept of criticism is very easily translated in to a state of "anti" which gets equated with disfunctional membership of group dynamics or guidance towards exclusion of those. On a slightly larger level this can also be used very efficiently to enable customers to mobilise themselves based on what is known as unreasonable participation. Maybe some people remember how years ago the drama was between communities and users of Nvidia versus ATI. That history is actually a textbook case of research for this type of marketing today Very handy when it is required to engage in competition between titles / products of same genre and same potential markets.

Macvirt you should seriously get a Ph.D in social psychology or something.

[arcology 224]

jacobhinds wrote: None of you will be laughing in march when you have to pay for yoga and hypnosis just to get on to the menu screen.

I have been arguing with them for the past two days, trying to understand why, in the world, they want to overhaul a completely good game into online multiplayer and I truly just loved your post. I needed it.