Penny Arcade’s Tycho talks about his frustrations with the latest Battlefield 1942:
When am I going to learn not to buy their products on day one? When am I going to learn that EA products include free misery?
A couple years ago, when we were trying (unsuccessfully) to set up a round of Tiger Woods with Gabe’s father, I can recall that the Elder Krahulik was almost flabbergasted by the notion that you could buy a product that simply didn’t work, or worked partially, or worked according to the voodoo whims of some witch calendar, or that buying had been divorced from ownership, or any one of a hundred other treacherous ambiguities brought on by the alloyed Eden of the digital age.