Hackers Take EA Servers Down, Madden NFL 17 & Many Other EA Games Impacted

[jake44np]

Quote: Originally Posted by althor

^Plus it seems the games get larger and larger. My grandson's ps3 takes removing 2 or 3 games just to play the newest games.

This wasn't my point in all of this! lol
My only point was people have no idea there is no difference in the two versions.
The OP is about the EA Servers being down and this doesn't affect a digital copy any different than a physical copy of a game.

[orion523]

Quote: Originally Posted by althor

^Plus it seems the games get larger and larger. My grandson's ps3 takes removing 2 or 3 games just to play the newest games.

Admittedly though, PS3 isn't quite epuipped for a digital library, the HDD space just isn't there. The current generation of consoles have quickly adapted to one and two TB hard dives, and for most gamers, that is plenty of space. As for Microsoft and Sony removing games from their online library, making a downloaded purchase obsolete, I've never seen it.
Coming from a guy who's owned hundreds of Albums, 45's, cassettes, cartridges, and yes even an 8 Track or two, I welcome the technology of today, everything about it is better than the past.

[Fusker]

Knowing when something isn't worth the effort is an art form!

Quote: Originally Posted by jake44np

This wasn't my point in all of this! lol My only point was people have no idea there is no difference in the two versions. The OP is about the EA Servers being down and this doesn't affect a digital copy any different than a physical copy of a game.

[Falconfreak]

two nights in a row I get off work and just want to play my franchise. I can't because their servers are down...again. Unreal.

[redux1000]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake44np

This makes no sense at all. The disc downloads onto your HD just like the digital. I have seen your exact quote above many times concerning many games and it simply is just not true. I am at work or I would spend the time to post the article that has been posted many times when it comes to this. Again have a digital or physical copy has no effect at any time when it comes to playing a game. They are one and the same.

Maybe it doesn't make sense- don't know, don't care- but when it happened one time specifically with Witcher, Xbox Live had a quote on their status site that read something to the effect of "Are you having trouble using/playing digital content? We're working on it!". And there were people chiming in on Xbox forums that yes their digital copy of Witcher wasn't working, while others who owned a physical copy claimed they weren't having any problems. Maybe they were lying, I don't know.

I am not in the camp of buying physical copies because I'm some type of conspiracy theorist who doesn't trust digital games or I'm stuck in the stone age regarding technology. I own many digital copies of games. So how about you & whoever chided people for being "ignorant" about this stop acting so condescending about what is frankly a very trivial topic.

This is an article about a period of time when this happened: http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/xb...digital-games/. There were similar articles from other reputable sites as well about this. If they are incorrect about their assertions, which is certainly possible, maybe you should apply for a job there and correct their mistakes. And if posting links like this is frowned upon, I understand if it's removed. Resume the talking down to people about the nuances of digital and physical copies of video games- adios.


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[BSDShoes]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake44np

This wasn't my point in all of this! lol My only point was people have no idea there is no difference in the two versions. The OP is about the EA Servers being down and this doesn't affect a digital copy any different than a physical copy of a game.

Actually when PSN was down, people reported not being able to launch their digital owned games probably because those people didn't set their console to home console- I set my PS4 to home console and had no trouble launching digital titles offline. XBL works the same way, I remember back on my 360 having a digital copy of Red Dead Redemption but wasn't connected to the internet and it told me I couldn't play it because I wasn't logged in.

EA servers are a different thing though, I"ve experienced an awful lot of server problem in the NHL series, a handful of times in FIFA but almost never in Madden.

[Rocket32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Falconfreak

two nights in a row I get off work and just want to play my franchise. I can't because their servers are down...again. Unreal.

Unless playing an online cfm with freinds or something that's why I go the offline cfm route. I know it has the faster simulation times and the advantage of tuner updates being able to be added to it but the fact that things like this don't stop me from playing my cfm outweighs the few extra benifits of online.

Online cfm's/franchises in any game are even more unappealing now to me in a time where it feels like these bigger gaming company's servers and online services are constantly being targeted and knocked offline by hacker groups. For two examples, like how that group Lizard Squad targeted PlayStation and XBox1 a while back and how Poodlecorp targeted EA's servers days ago. Also when PlayStation's servers had to be shut down for hours only a few days ago because of a technical difficulty/error which I heard it was.

[Sheba2011]

This is one of the reasons I never play online, the other reason is everytime I attempt to it is against someone who is either incredibly immature, quits when they are losing are doesn't play a serious game (like going for it on 4th and 35).