Despite the common mantra here, EA still has quite a bit of money, and is selling record numbers of their main franchise games.

That's basically what LucasArts had been doing, and they ended up producing crap or just sitting on the IP.
People have wanted new Tie FIghter, Grim Fandango, etc... games but Lucas would never license out the IP to them to develop the games.

Well seems the Mgmt did make the right decision on the promotion.

One more reason why people are not too keen on metered internet.

Unlike say a cell phone, I know if I use it for 30 minutes I have used, 30 minutes. Whereas if I visit a random website it might have multiple videos playing and will eat up a bunch of data, and I have no way of knowing this till the page has loaded.

Well I think part of that is the UI in place. Many SW devs will in effect replace the mouse pointer with the finger on a tablet, which simply will not do, and the SW ends up being hard to use for any length of time.

> And have you seen some of the stuff they do? Not exactly kid friendly.

Yep...

Game of Thrones
True Blood
The Sopranos

Somehow I don't think HBO would bat an eye at some off color jokes. Now make if this comedian was a hot young chick and willing to get naked on stage, then HBO might take notice.

Wasn't something similar done with Mirror's Edge?

Where the pirated copy was fine for a few hours then the player got slower and slower to the point they could not longer complete the missions or get away from enemies?

That would just make it worse...
Release day of any AAA title would be a repeat of D3 and SimCity.

Because despite how we see ourselves, we are not an ideal demographic for shows.
Scifi shows are one of the most expensive genres to make, and the good ones often need talented (expensive) people to make them, and then lack the mass appeal.

It's the same reason why when you hear they are "attracting a larger audience", it means they are dumbing it down.

The average TV watcher probably does not care for more stuff like Firefly, while those that do have moved onto other platforms for their content.

IDK look at other such systems, like say American Idol, the finalists are usually pretty bland pop singers. The outlier unique singers are the first to go.

Exactly, best case you'll end up paying $50 for a 26 episode season, that you can watch ONCE. Box set would cost the same and you'd own them.

Also don't they think that if you rape a baby you can cure your STDs?

Just goes to show how badly proper education is needed there.

Yea, they love the "American" system of capitalism, they just don't like it when outsiders own those profits.
They have in the past gone so far as to build facilities there then nationalize them.

Apple is not local to China.
Just because something was made in CHina, does not mean it was not done for a foreign company.

If you would have bothered to read OP's comment he is clearly trying to suggest that the government is for some reason becoming more open to to it's criticas by siding with them in a copyright suit which they historically side with their own regardless of the circumstances.

> it sounds like the Chinese government ruled in favor of writers that are popular for criticizing the Chinese government.

> While I'm not their biggest fan, this is a pretty big step for them.