Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “EA doesn’t care about you”.
I wanted to talk about EA not being able to recover 60 of players corrupted Madden save files. Now, obviously I don’t play Madden um, so I don’t really have any skin in this particular game. But here’s. What went down Madden NFL 23 has had server side issues for months with the latest being a temporary data storage issue that led to the corruption of many players connected franchise mode, save games being lost, um, there’s a Corruption of many uh last week anyway. For about 14 hours between December 28th and 29th players trying to access the CFM server got an error message, saying leagues were unavailable. If you tried to log in during this time, your save data was corrupted. Unfortunately, this period came just hours after a Twitter post, letting players know that they could now play CFM without issue.
This was, after developers fixed a previous problem in the game, meaning that more players than normal may have tried to log in during this period. You want to know what a depressing piece of information sure I have not fully validated this. I just heard this from someone.
I don’t remember who sorry, whoever it was um FIFA Ultimate Team, the like not completely, but people are gon na get mad at me. If I say it because there’s money, printing machine yeah pay to win soccer, basically uh football, but yes, it’s not because you can still be better than the other players shut up. Um pay to win FIFA soccer just brought in by itself just FIFA Ultimate Team.
More than Elden ring made this year. Alden ring was Game of the Year wow and was like Mass, sometimes Game of the Year. Wins they’re, not necessarily like the most popular thing, but Elden ring was extremely popular.
Oh yeah, it was a cultural moment, absolutely yeah. Fifa Ultimate Team still made more money, annihilated it destroyed, so you want you wonder why the games industry is going the way that it is yeah. So the reason that I wanted to talk about this save game thing is that I I I have as someone who has lost, save files and then ultimately just never gone back and finished the game because of how disheartening that was, I feel for these guys. This sucks – and this is a huge part of why I get so angry at Nintendo – for locking Cloud – saves on a portable device to people who pay a subscription that should be illegal um. This is why I get this is why this is why I didn’t play fantasian for so long. Bad RPG, yeah um from hironobosakaguchi, I think, is his name, but basically uh one of one of the guys that worked on Final Fantasy. Six, like my all-time, mostly favorite game. I would have said all time through through Nostalgia, glasses, it’s my favorite game, but there’s probably games. I’Ve played since then that I I think are objectively are better but one of my all-time favorite games and the reason that I didn’t play.
It was because it was exclusive to Apple arcade, and I just I had no way of knowing I had no way of controlling that save file. Any save file that isn’t on a server that I control doesn’t exist as far as I’m concerned um, and I just this – is why this is my problem, because if I lose it all right, I lost it that sucks, but that’s on me, that’s on me yeah. If somebody else loses it, that is crap, that’s garbage, that’s garbage and I hate it, but I caved. I was at Costco right before Christmas picked up an Apple TV.
I’Ve been playing Fantasia, it’s great. I love it uh and the reason is that I always just assumed it would get ported to something else at some point, and so I just like waited passively just waited and waited and waited it’s been a long time. Okay, part two’s out. Okay, I’m gon na keep waiting Apple funded the whole damn thing: oh, it’s never going anywhere else: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, .