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Comment by pale_rider | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand why people buy games from EA? I mean, seriously, why buy it?

They have been pulling this crap for years and each new release just gets progressively worse.

About a year ago I decided if it's not on Steam I'm not buying it. It really sucks to miss out on some of the games, but I refuse to support such an asshole of a company.

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As a consumer: If my £40 game gives me £40 of entertainment, I will buy it.

This held for Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3. And considering the reviews it has been receiving, I'm confident this will be true for SimCity once the early server issues have been ironed out.

I bought Battlefield 3 from EA and all the expansions. It's been a great experience so far on the PC, and they've kept the community updated on upcoming patches and changed, worked through balance issues and cracked down on exploits and hacks. Now granted probably a lot of that is DICE, but they're as much as a part of EA as Maxis is so I don't necessarily think it's all EA.

I'm looking forward to buying it, and I haven't bought a game in years. While there are definitely a lot of people out there who really wanted the game on day 1, and are very hurt that they might not be able to play it very much for a few days, I'm guessing the majority of people who will buy SC during its lifetime will not be affected buy it, will not care, and won't even be consciously aware that it's published by EA or its reputation.

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