I heard enough cries and whinings for least me ten more life times
You payed its not a good thing but 2 months passed mates dont you think
this is enough cant you concentrated on your new creations.That money of yours
will never return and try to speak and shout as much as you can nothing will be
change you cant get more stuff for free.

Gaming sector is not easy as you think
its a lot of money every game design starts with depts.Do you think all those
money goes directly to EA's boss.Ok each original DVD of Spore, manuel and its
plastic cover costs ten bucks with Shipments of them bucks for each.The remaining
bucks are used for EA servers updates, bills of developers and buying trademarks.
EVEN BUYING A TRADE MARK is a huge money...

Type your feedbacks, report bugs and tell what you want.Its all you can do.

PS: Do you really think noone from EA reading writings of yours in forums.
They do reading your writings so I recommend you to watch your mouth(Rude words only).
Dont worry they knew everything that bugs you but ruling a company that big is not easy.
Making real everything that players request even harder.Atleast I saw like that while I was
working in IBM and Microsoft.(I saw man wants to command his laptop with his voice only...)

Writings in this topic is not a order, just recommendation from someone like you.
I told what I know and think.So decision is all yours to continue discussion about EA.

What's really funny is I didn't bother to read your post beyond the first line.

You should try doing that sometime.

Your english is a little rough, but I totally agree. There are far too many people whining...

BotsMaster wrote:PS: Do you really think noone from EA reading writings of yours in forums.
They do reading your writings so I recommend you to watch your mouth(Rude words only).
Dont worry they knew everything that bugs you but ruling a company that big is not easy.
Making real everything that players request even harder.Atleast I saw like that while I was
working in IBM and Microsoft.(I saw man wants to command his laptop with his voice only...)

I think everyone knows EA is at least monitoring this forum in a passive sense. Someone is watching it. However, the problem is that the information communicated here never makes it far up the food chain at EA or Maxis to the people who actually matter. On top of that, the information that does make it upwards is filtered and distorted. Because lower managers/employees don't want to look bad, they typically suppress information like raw customer feedback in order to sugar coat and omit things whenever possible. Would you tell your boss a product that you made is hated by a lot of customers? No, you'd say they were a vocal minority, minimize their numbers to just a couple or a fraction of a percent, and gloss over a few light selected complaints. Then litter the rest of your report with positives in hopes of that new raise or promotion. This is business, not a conspiracy or something irregular. People have to keep bashing EA and its practices in the hopes that a problem becomes such a big deal that the lower managers can't sugar coat it or the upper-managers find out what people are really saying.

ZJBDragon wrote:you'd say they were a vocal minority, minimize their numbers to just a couple or a fraction of a percent, and gloss over a few light selected complaints. Then litter the rest of your report with positives in hopes of that new raise or promotion.

Unfortunately it does tend to be a vocal minority. Just because people don't post in response doesn't mean they aren't there. Probably half the "EA did this and that" have no basis in fact but are simply annoyed people looking for a convenience vent for their frustration. If people have evidence of EA "malpractice" then fine, but I see very little of it. As it is EA did listen to complaints about theSecurom and upped the limit from 3 to 5 installs. May not be much of a change but a majority voicing their opinions do get heard.

No. We cannot.

BotsMaster wrote: I heard enough cries and whinings for least me ten more life times

Frustrating yes but the complaints do serve a purpose in that, as you say, EA see clearly that we are not happy and that we are not putting up with the expansion pack nonsense either. Otherwise, suggest a free and working alternative that allow for people to lodge their complaints that is easily and publicly accessible, as you certainly hold no rights over deciding which content can be posted on these forums.

Gaming sector is not easy as you think. <snip>The costs are so huge<snip>

I feel for them, but if they can not stand the heat why are they in this industry in the first place?

There are very high costs involved I know, but no company will be in this business if they can not satisfy the yearly earnings expectations of their investors. They are the one's that get the money. EA only get a yearly budget for game design, salaries and hardware updates.

Welcome to internet

We'll stop whining when EA decides to release quality games again.