THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: magus on March 26, 2014, 08:18:10 PM

Title: End of an era
Post by: magus on March 26, 2014, 08:18:10 PM: http://consumerist.com/2014/03/24/eas-worst-company-in-america-reign-comes-to-an-end-with-loss-to-time-warner-cable/

not like this... not like this...

:fbm
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: StealthFan on March 26, 2014, 08:21:38 PM: :banderas:
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 26, 2014, 08:27:11 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b3mftcV0dY

:tocry
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: Rahxephon91 on March 26, 2014, 08:27:12 PM: Yeah fuck comcast. They don't allow the use of the HBO Go app on PS3 or Rokku. At least Time Warner does.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: doctavius bonbon on March 26, 2014, 08:44:07 PM: Quote from: Esch on March 26, 2014, 08:22:55 PM
(http://i.minus.com/jbsNV6DhWM95KO.png) at Comcast repeatedly dodging this bullet.

Also, Academi.

They're not dodging it this time, I think.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 27, 2014, 10:07:30 AM: Quote from: Esch on March 26, 2014, 09:07:25 PM
:ohhh i forgot about that.

Can you absorb an L from another company?

By osmosis?

Technically you can get an STD from a company, now that they have personhood.
:leon
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: a slime appears on March 27, 2014, 10:13:40 AM: EA even being considered in the running was complete horseshit anyways. Yeah they fuck up and they're a bit overzealous about monetization but stealing $10 from a bunch of fat neckbeards is nothing to get worked up over.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: magus on March 27, 2014, 10:17:07 AM: Quote from: a slime appears on March 27, 2014, 10:13:40 AM
EA even being considered in the running was complete horseshit anyways. Yeah they fuck up and they're a bit overzealous about monetization but stealing $10 from a bunch of fat neckbeards is nothing to get worked up over.

did you read the article? they won it for 2 year in a row and even now they only lost for like a 1% margin
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: a slime appears on March 27, 2014, 10:21:40 AM: Quote from: magus on March 27, 2014, 10:17:07 AM
Quote from: a slime appears on March 27, 2014, 10:13:40 AM
EA even being considered in the running was complete horseshit anyways. Yeah they fuck up and they're a bit overzealous about monetization but stealing $10 from a bunch of fat neckbeards is nothing to get worked up over.

did you read the article? they won it for 2 year in a row and even now they only lost for like a 1% margin

I know EA has won the prize. How is my statement any less correct?

It's bullshit that they're even considered with all the other genuinely malicious US companies out there actively fucking our economy/people/infrastructure.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: Rufus on March 27, 2014, 10:29:59 AM: Of course, but it's an online poll on a site the video game media likes to report on. Whatever they find is meaningless one way or another.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: a slime appears on March 27, 2014, 10:31:30 AM: Yeah... :-\
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: magus on March 27, 2014, 10:50:11 AM: Quote from: Rufus on March 27, 2014, 10:29:59 AM
Of course, but it's an online poll on a site the video game media likes to report on. Whatever they find is meaningless one way or another.

Not to mention we would miss Peter Moore amazing "you gotta be the best to be the worst" statement
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 27, 2014, 04:04:19 PM: The only company that should ever win this "award" is either a major bank or a petrochemical manufacturer.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: magus on March 27, 2014, 04:09:28 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 27, 2014, 04:04:19 PM
The only company that should ever win this "award" is either a major bank or a petrochemical manufacturer.

but that would be boring, why point an evil company when you can point a cartoonishly evil company!
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: benjipwns on March 27, 2014, 08:23:56 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 27, 2014, 04:04:19 PM
The only company that should ever win this "award" is either a major bank or a petrochemical manufacturer.
Dow Chemical's never charged me for DLC.

OR TAKEN THEIR PRODUCTS OFF STEAM.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: tiesto on March 27, 2014, 09:44:35 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 27, 2014, 04:04:19 PM
The only company that should ever win this "award" is either a major bank or a petrochemical manufacturer.

Or a defense contractor :P
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: chronovore on March 31, 2014, 04:26:35 AM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 27, 2014, 10:07:30 AM
Quote from: Esch on March 26, 2014, 09:07:25 PM
:ohhh i forgot about that.

Can you absorb an L from another company?

By osmosis?

Technically you can get an STD from a company, now that they have personhood.
:leon

Too bad, since the banks have been fucking us all raw for ages.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: doctavius bonbon on March 31, 2014, 06:48:37 AM: Facebook winning this competition would be fucking amazing now that Oculus was bought.
Title: Re: End of an era
Post by: magus on March 31, 2014, 07:08:53 AM: Quote from: doctavius bonbon on March 31, 2014, 06:48:37 AM
Facebook winning this competition would be fucking amazing now that Oculus was bought.

what if they bought oculus just to win this competition? think about it! :ohhh