@iArtisan @benbonney @CaptWaffle Not really, that was one of the most godawful posts I've seen on Gamespot in quite some time.

@realscarygary @Whiskey3romeo Square Enix are idiots who expected the Eidos branch games to bankroll their abortively awful and expensive to produce Final Fantasy series that no-one actually cares about any more.

They really need to stop pissing their money on graphical features nobody cares about. They spent a few million on TressFX alone, and then over half the PC gaming population had to turn it off because they utterly fucked up making it work on Nvidia cards.

@mav_destroyer I think the damage has already been done to EA on that one, but yeah, I'd bet money on the Offline Mode hack stopping working after this update.

@o0squishy0o @sasami_adachi 3 years and $500 you mean, they strip this stuff out so they can sell it back to you as fucking DLC.

@AlexFili @asendedtrunks @shingui5 No, it's up to the publisher, not the developer.

@FreedomPrime @vishisluv7 The industry desperately needs less of EAs insidious business practices. Have you been living under a rock for the past decade?

@TheCyborgNinja @DarkSaber2k Well I felt you really did need to be beaten over the head with just how stupid your statement was.

Incidentally that's not a meme, it's a gif. A lot of memes use gifs, but a gif is not in itself a meme.

@Nxss-effa-sim @coj04 Or is already here, depending on whether you care for the official chanels or not.

@Nxss-effa-sim @DarkSaber2k @Dante3k @Tristan2668 Like I said, it all depends on what is or isn't in the legally binding contract between the employee and EA. Given that they have chosen a mid-day rather than midnight slot, the reasonable conclusion is that the people responsible for the patching would have had to have been paid extra to do this overnight. That or EA are absolute morons. Both are plausible.

@Dante3k @DarkSaber2k @Tristan2668 Yes, because we are totally talking about the military and not a private penny-pinching corporation. They'd be contractually obliged to pay overtime and unsociable hours rates if contracts included those clauses. Why would they do that when they are going to have people in at *some* point who are going to deal with it and without requiring extra pay?

In the civilian world people don't fall over themselves to do something because a shouty man told them to. Well some do, but most expect fair compensation.