EA 2 PSP Fight Night Customers: your e-mail or $'s
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EA 2 PSP Fight Night Customers: your e-mail or $'s
Talk about how not to gain the good will of your customers...
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thum...2006/2/19/2914
EA to PSP Fight Night players: Pay us or we'll spam you
If this were a job where I had to show up at an office I would imagine working at a desk where a pretty woman hands up news updates for me to comment on in a post. I would look at this dispatches from the internet, and then sigh, because like Uwe Boll or Jack Thompson, certain names or companies are going to consistently come up and do something stupid.
Hello EA, this post is about you.
It appears you have a choice when you try to play Fight Night Round 3 online through your PSP. You either cough up some money, US$2 in fact, or give them your email and address. Not a good choice, even though most of us can make up an email address and mailing address. The whole thing is fairly ominous though. EA is basically saying "Pay us or we'll spam you."
Of course, they'll realize quickly that we're faking them with bullshit information. When that happens expect them to start emailing codes to you that are required to play online. Fun, huh?
Oh EA, how will you screw gamers next? I'm looking forward to going to the store to pick up next year's Madden and having an EA employee punch me in the face before I go.
If this were a job where I had to show up at an office I would imagine working at a desk where a pretty woman hands up news updates for me to comment on in a post. I would look at this dispatches from the internet, and then sigh, because like Uwe Boll or Jack Thompson, certain names or companies are going to consistently come up and do something stupid.
Hello EA, this post is about you.
It appears you have a choice when you try to play Fight Night Round 3 online through your PSP. You either cough up some money, US$2 in fact, or give them your email and address. Not a good choice, even though most of us can make up an email address and mailing address. The whole thing is fairly ominous though. EA is basically saying "Pay us or we'll spam you."
Of course, they'll realize quickly that we're faking them with bullshit information. When that happens expect them to start emailing codes to you that are required to play online. Fun, huh?
Oh EA, how will you screw gamers next? I'm looking forward to going to the store to pick up next year's Madden and having an EA employee punch me in the face before I go.
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Originally Posted by slayer202
umm, free online and all you have to do is delete the email/week EA might send you....quit bitching
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to EA.... I hate sheit like this.. I don't even care whether they actually do spam you if you don't give em $2.. its just lame that someone or some people at EA came up with this. They should know better.
anybody else off for President's Day? 
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Originally Posted by Billiam
Do you own this game? What exactly is the e-mail-or-pay required for? I wasn't able to determine this from the article I posted or the other two I found.
some people just like bitching, aka the person who wrote what you quoted. what online today does not ask you for email address? not to mention you can fill in fake info. dont you guys have an email address you use when you know you need to respond for confirmation??
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Originally Posted by slayer202
no i dont, but come on guys, its EA. do you really think they are going to sell your info? do you think they are gonna spam you with viagra ads? some people just like bitching, aka the person who wrote what you quoted. what online today does not ask you for email address? not to mention you can fill in fake info. dont you guys have an email address you use when you know you need to respond for confirmation??
some people just like bitching, aka the person who wrote what you quoted. what online today does not ask you for email address? not to mention you can fill in fake info. dont you guys have an email address you use when you know you need to respond for confirmation??
I would probably use one of my fake addresses... This is more about principle, imo.
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What I don't understand , is if you can pay them and not have to supply your e-mail address, then why require it at all? The only reason conceivable reason is for EA to send you spam. Even if it's just one message per month, you've already paid for the game. Why should you be forced into receiving advertising e-mail from the publisher?
The real "danger" here isn't simply deleting one, two, or ten spams from EA. The danger is that if people just go along with this method of captive advertising, then game publishers can escalate it to the next level. If people don't bitch about this now, we could end up with something where you have to supply an e-mail address to get an unlock code for portions of a game. Oh, and of course you could also get spam from the publisher right along with it.
The real "danger" here isn't simply deleting one, two, or ten spams from EA. The danger is that if people just go along with this method of captive advertising, then game publishers can escalate it to the next level. If people don't bitch about this now, we could end up with something where you have to supply an e-mail address to get an unlock code for portions of a game. Oh, and of course you could also get spam from the publisher right along with it.
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