Nothing Like Setting the Tone
There’s a new impressions thread at DSP for the PC Version of Tiger Woods 2006. The first paragraph from dbdynsty25 reads:
“So…I picked it up this afternoon and installed it. First of all…I’m pissed. EA gives you two choices if you want to play the game online. You can pay them $2.00 to activate your subscription with EASO or you can have ESPN.com pay it and they will send you all kinds of spam and promotional material…“
I don’t know why I even find this kind of thing surprising anymore. Pretty soon you’ll have to sign up for a 3rd party advertisting advertising package just to install and play a game. I mean, really, how big a leap would it be from the kind of tactic EA has adopted here? I’m starting to miss the days when companies at least tried to be subtle about whoring us all out for advertising purposes.
Anyway, the rest of the initial impressions were generally favorable. Sounds like they decreased the margin of error for a good shot in TrueSwing (making it more difficult), which was sorely needed in Tiger Woods 2004 (I skipped 2005). Hopefully there will be more good stuff to come. It’s going to be a long wait till October when my discretionary spending budget gets refreshed and I can finally pick this one up.
September 24th, 2005 at 1:18 pm
They did the same for Madden on the consoles.
They know most people won’t pay so they decided to harvest your email addresses and sell them to ESPN. (although since they’re paying ESPN big money for the license, why do they have to give ESPN our email addresses on top of it?).
They tried charging for EASO on the PC games a couple of years ago and it didn’t go anywhere.
Hey I would be fine with no lobby at all. Just give me a simple interface to type in an IP address. But that isn’t going to happen, at least in console games.
Just put in-game advertising and get it over with already.