Are EA brown nosing the German community ?

[subzero nautica]

Re: Are EA brown nosing the German community ?

it's not just Germany, I am not from Germany, I am from Switzerland, we got it too... since yesterday... Austria too...

and I know it's not a German tank, but it has the sign of the Deutsche Bundeswehr on it ;-)

How do you like the game?

Personally, i am not going to buy it right away. Even though i will regret the learning curb (ie. people getting a head start on me).

[imported_Sharp]

Re: Are EA brown nosing the German community ?

They only got it early because EA waited too long to delay the release and couldn't delay the boxes going retail. Their plan was to release it everywhere at the same time.

[satcomNL]

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I guess the germans have the biggest community?
And as i heard from Andreas 'Gamma' Koch (BF1918) The german community is busy for over 4 years, Pluggin the EA Games, Arranging BIG lan Parties....

I guess EA rewards that?

Example : BFCON ! - Do you know any community that arranges such 'Parties/Lans' ?
Hell! i dont!

[imported_Bubba]

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My question is why is it available as an "off the shelf" product in Germany only ?Surely not because the German population havnt taken to credit cards yet, i was in Munich in April last year, i saw lots of Germnas with credit cards in the shops i went in.
?

Sure that they not use EC Cards?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_card

[wolfi]

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I guess the germans have the biggest community?
And as i heard from Andreas 'Gamma' Koch (BF1918) The german community is busy for over 4 years, Pluggin the EA Games, Arranging BIG lan Parties....

I guess EA rewards that?

BFCON ! - Do you know any community that arranges such 'Parties/Lans' ?
Hell! i dont!

Yep, a huge Lanparty with over 400 ppl.
But thats not the reason for the early release.

I wrote the story yesterday:

In germany you can buy it already. I think they stopped selling but on the first two or three days (feb 21, 22 and 23) you could buy the download code in stores and download it after that.
The stores received the "DO NOT SELL YET!" order too late..

[coco]

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Example : BFCON ! - Do you know any community that arranges such 'Parties/Lans' ?

Yes....Multiplay i27

[Sir. Shpox]

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Extra Special Treatment ? It's anything but, it's not the retail version, not too many people are playing it, for all we know, they're playing a Beta version as their version is based on 1.2 and not 1.21. Your better off not buying a card yet. They were given a red card too late - due to Ea's sloppyness and now a few germans have EF. What Im curious about is why they still enabled it in the Downloader ?

[imported_Donkey]

Re: Are EA brown nosing the German community ?

Extra Special Treatment ? It's anything but, it's not the retail version, not too many people are playing it, for all we know, they're playing a Beta version as their version is based on 1.2 and not 1.21. Your better off not buying a card yet. They were given a red card too late - due to Ea's sloppyness and now a few germans have EF. What Im curious about is why they still enabled it in the Downloader ?

I was thinking the same thing. Why did EA leave there d/l servers up and let them download EF?

[Fullforce]

Re: Are EA brown nosing the German community ?

Because EA be stoopid, thats why.


If you're so jealous about the Germans getting it early - import it.
I can understand why you are jealous but us Europeans always, always get worse off when a game comes out. For a company to release a game in Europe, they need to translate it into god knows how many languages we have, and meet appropriate guidelines. This takes time.

[KHAN]

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Has anyone tried the EA Downloader? Is there just no link for it?

[imported_Sharp]

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There's a download link, but it's no use if you haven't purchased the download code:

http://downloader.ea.com/codes/us/bf2euro