New Ambitions Shelf - Homage to MATY or Declaration of War?
spaceface:
Oh, yes, of course. Don't think for a minute that EA people don't read MATY and know the memes, they clearly do.
sevrine:
Quote from: spacecadet on 2010 July 16, 14:56:04
Oh, yes, of course. Don't think for a minute that EA people don't read MATY and know the memes, they clearly do.
Had this been a shelf offered by Restoration Hardware or Pottery Barn, I would obviously have ignored it, but here you have:
1) the whole "show-offy" aspect of things -- which is what fixing code *overnight* that took a team months to write might seem like to a person who works with that team;
2) the complete lack of parallel structure between the concept of a "modest" shelf and one that is awesome -- I still can't figure out the point they are trying to make; and
3) the sad little part at the end about flaunting one's awesomeness and not being that awesome after all. Whistling in the dark -- good luck with that EA.
This is a company that has very publicly lost hundreds of millions of dollars. If the person who wrote that had NEVER heard of MATY or the awesomemod, it would shed considerable light on a complete lack of market awareness that would doom the company for real. I give them credit for taking a potshot, even if the grammar is terrible.
The Sims 3 was the first PC game I purchased since Zork Nemesis. Within less than a week, reading ONLY the official Sims 3 forum, I already knew there was an "awesome" mod that fixed various bugs. If the people writing descriptions in the actual game still don't know that, EPIC FAIL.
Claeric:
Look. How's this.
If the next expansion contains an item whose description implies it adamantly claims everyone cares so hard about it that they put it in their games, we'll know they say this topic.
Motoki:
Quote from: sevrine on 2010 July 16, 16:35:13
2) the complete lack of parallel structure between the concept of a "modest" shelf and one that is awesome -- I still can't figure out the point they are trying to make; and
It's EA. Their logic is unfathomable. I'm still trying to figure out how seeing a 'familiar' person or couple in the past results in a sometimes gender swapped parthenogenic clone of yourself returning back with you to the present.
So far even using quantum mechanics I am unable to come up with a logical explanation.
sevrine:
Quote from: Claeric on 2010 July 16, 16:48:27
Look. How's this.
If the next expansion contains an item whose description implies it adamantly claims everyone cares so hard about it that they put it in their games, we'll know they say this topic.
Or better yet, maybe the long-awaited pets expansion will happen to include a "shouty" vole!
BTW, Claeric, I'm enjoying your very cool picture set (Persona4Paintings_Claeric) -- genuine thanks.
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