Hogfather

 

I.... I didn't know where else to post this... it's not Sim City related... but it is EA related, well had I been more in a Black Phantom mode it would have been SimCity 5 related.

If you've just seem my status update, you know where this is going.

I was in Hull city centre today and there was an EA games booth there, they were letting people play on Need for Speed, Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 and Medal of Honor for free, then if you left 'feedback' you could even get a free keyring WOO!

Curious, I went inside. I went on Dead Space 3 for a while and played the intro (up until you fall down the mountain), wasn't that impressed with it, so decided to leave.

As I'm headding out, a dude dressed in EA clothing from head to toe comes over and says 'Do you use twitter?' I said 'Yeah?' He then says, 'Well you can use one of these computers to post on twitter what you thought, we'll give you a free keyring if you do.'

Now... look at what he said...

"Do you use twitter" and "Use one of these computers to post on twitter"

He did NOT say "Log in on twitter and post what you thought" he said "use one of those computers to post on twitter"

I go to the units and discover the webpage is already loaded up on twitter, and I see a bunch of tweets about the hub. So I thought it was some kind of public thing they'd set up... so I started to type and then noticed a 'You have new tweets' and it was quite a large number. I then click show tweets and was puzzled at how not related to the hub/games it were, they were on about SimCity 5 and other EA games not at this hub... then I noticed... It wasn't a public account... It was an official EA account!

The guy had obviously been using it before and had left himself logged in! And now here I was, with permission to use the computers... Oh my goodness.

I had full access to the account. It was like someone had parked a car in front of you and handed you the keys before then saying 'use it.' It was crazy, I could have done tons of damage if I wanted. My mind was racing with stuff like 'Post SimCity 5 stinks' 'Servers? We have plenty of those, they're serving meatballs in the canteen' or 'So how bout those DRM's I eat them with M&M's.'

If I were really really naughty, I could have done some serious damage for them today... but I decided to be nice.

I logged out of the account and just as I was logging in I thought 'Wait a moment... I'm just about to log into someone elses computer with my own details... and theres no 'this is a public computer' option... Fuck this!' Told the guy my concerns and was basically told 'oh.. sorry mate'

I didn't get my free keyring... =(

If you were in my position today... would you have been evil?

Blacklightning

Mar 10 2013, 03:29 AM

And then this happened over at SSMB.

Hogfather

 

I.... I didn't know where else to post this... it's not Sim City related... but it is EA related, well had I been more in a Black Phantom mode it would have been SimCity 5 related.

If you've just seem my status update, you know where this is going.

I was in Hull city centre today and there was an EA games booth there, they were letting people play on Need for Speed, Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 and Medal of Honor for free, then if you left 'feedback' you could even get a free keyring WOO!

Curious, I went inside. I went on Dead Space 3 for a while and played the intro (up until you fall down the mountain), wasn't that impressed with it, so decided to leave.

As I'm headding out, a dude dressed in EA clothing from head to toe comes over and says 'Do you use twitter?' I said 'Yeah?' He then says, 'Well you can use one of these computers to post on twitter what you thought, we'll give you a free keyring if you do.'

Now... look at what he said...

"Do you use twitter" and "Use one of these computers to post on twitter"

He did NOT say "Log in on twitter and post what you thought" he said "use one of those computers to post on twitter"

I go to the units and discover the webpage is already loaded up on twitter, and I see a bunch of tweets about the hub. So I thought it was some kind of public thing they'd set up... so I started to type and then noticed a 'You have new tweets' and it was quite a large number. I then click show tweets and was puzzled at how not related to the hub/games it were, they were on about SimCity 5 and other EA games not at this hub... then I noticed... It wasn't a public account... It was an official EA account!

The guy had obviously been using it before and had left himself logged in! And now here I was, with permission to use the computers... Oh my goodness.

I had full access to the account. It was like someone had parked a car in front of you and handed you the keys before then saying 'use it.' It was crazy, I could have done tons of damage if I wanted. My mind was racing with stuff like 'Post SimCity 5 stinks' 'Servers? We have plenty of those, they're serving meatballs in the canteen' or 'So how bout those DRM's I eat them with M&M's.'

If I were really really naughty, I could have done some serious damage for them today... but I decided to be nice.

I logged out of the account and just as I was logging in I thought 'Wait a moment... I'm just about to log into someone elses computer with my own details... and theres no 'this is a public computer' option... Fuck this!' Told the guy my concerns and was basically told 'oh.. sorry mate'

I didn't get my free keyring... =(

If you were in my position today... would you have been evil?

Also here, have the story so far in .jpg form.

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“The servers are not handling any of the computation done to simulate the city you are playing. They are still acting as servers, doing some amount of computation to route messages of various types between both players and cities. As well, they’re doing cloud storage of save games, interfacing with Origin, and all of that. But for the game itself? No, they’re not doing anything. I have no idea why they’re claiming otherwise. It’s possible that Bradshaw misunderstood or was misinformed, but otherwise I’m clueless.”