Class Action Filed Against Electronic Arts Over Battlefield 4

[rwinches]

This class action seems dubious to me. Just because some stock holders pushed the price up then panicked doesn't make a case. A balanced portfolio only allows 15% for this type of stock and volatility is expected. The stock market has been doing fine overall so these actions that are usually lead by the same group of activist is just a form of legal shakedown.
Changing the laws and allowing board members to influence the operation of companies and then making further changes allowing them to benefit from stock price manipulation is the crux of the problem here.
Is there any real doubt that the stock price will rebound, No.

 

[DXRick]

Playing the stock market is worse than playing any game EA ever put out. Besides, you are supposed to buy before the rumors and sell before the real news.

 

[shortbus25]

I see all the comments and wonder wth is wrong with you people! You must have old, slow PC's mine plays it just fine! I have a Intel Q6600 at 3ghz, 8 GB Ddr2, 2 xfx 5770's cf, 240gb Intel SSD, and Win 8.1 and I have ran the game fine since day 1 finished the sp game first week and really the only problem I have had is all the updates making the servers be wonky! My PC has never blue screened or rebooted! You people need to learn how to make your PC work before you cut down a absolutely great game!

 

[photonboy]

Roger Rogers,
I've tested over 200 games on Windows 8 (now 8.1) and found only three issues, all from Telltale Games.

Windows 8 is the most stable experience I've ever had.

Perhaps your issue is a hardware one such as bad memory, but aside from the new interface complaints Windows 8 is pretty amazing.

(As for BF4, well I always wait a minimum of three months after a game is released to even consider buying it just to see how the patching and review goes.)

 

[edogawa]

Windows 8.1 is probably half of the fault.

My experience.

I have TWO computers that keep crashing with various BLUE-SCREEN-OF-DEATH error messages.
The latest being;- "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (Win 32 ~)"

One is a 3D i7 laptop, otherwise perfect. All the latest drivers and bios etc...
The other is a brand new Gaming i7 desktop with a fresh install of windows 8.1 also. Also all fully updated.

Face it.

Microsoft is a dogs dropping.

I especially HATE the crashes and re-boots; which regularly happens whilst I am commenting on Disqus on the Indy website.

Well over fifty crashes and re-boots over the past two months.

Up to once an hour.

My 10-year old XP PC NEVER crashes like that.

I think some of the bugs are related to cross-platforming different screwy windows OP systems.

No it's not, it's just you, Battlefield 4 runs fine on all the Windows 8.1 machines I see with varying hardware. If you're having that many issues, then there is a hardware fault, or it's user induced issues.

 

[edogawa]

I wonder where those who said BF4 was going to be the best game ever are?

We're busy online enjoying the game lol.

At least for me I'm happy of the improvements they made as quickly as possible. On PC, I personally no longer experience any issues anymore compared to what launch had going on. On my consoles though that is certainly a different story as they essentially have to wait for Sony and Microsoft QA approvals before release.

I definitely don't support the launch, it was poorly done and obviously rushed as many titles seem to be under EA's watch as a publisher. From SWOTR, Sim City, and now BF4.... all were rushed and needed more time to be polished. I didn't appreciate the b.s. customer appreciation they did with x2 XP and a stupid weapon attachment either. Sim City only experienced issues for 1-2 weeks and customers were given a free game (with a decent selection to choose from)..not sure why this wasn't done with BF4.

Sadly every publisher seems to be just garbage in customer service... any that did were bought out or went out of business.

Same here, enjoying the game, max level already.


After the first week of fixing the server crashing I've had like no issues besides that annoying revive bug where it keeps showing the resurrection menu when someone revives you. BF4 seems really solid for me, no crashing, no disconnects, just balancing issues which is normal.

The launch was really rushed, it needed another 6 months of beta testing, people should not blame DICE, it's mainly EA time tables.

 

[randomizer]

A class action? Well we know who the winners will be. Not EA, not their shareholders and certainly not the gamers.

 

[mazty]

After SimCity, what did people expect??

 

[Fierce Guppy]

And now, following the December 16th patch, this is how the game renders on my PC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JssqOmaQrpE&t=1m20s

Pretty neato, eh?

Actually, this happens to mutil-GPU setups. The graphics quality does not lick the bottom of the toilet bowl for users with a powerful single GPU.

 

[jasonelmore]

If there were just problems with Battlefield 4 i would say EA does not deserve this, but there have been massive bugs in every battlefield game thats came out in the past 5 years, so yeah, they had it coming.

DICE needs to redo their whole QA and Network Coding Department.

 

[GTXFerrari]

i really wish ea would have given dice an extra month to polish the game instead of racing to beat out infinity ward. My game still freezes every other game a month and a half after launch

 

[Krisk7]

How can anyone still be buying any EA games day one? If you ask for trouble, don't be surprised your wish is granted.

 

[wanderer11]

This game has been nothing but problems for me. Constant freezing/CTD, unable to connect to servers, flickering textures (or lack of textures resulting in a solid brown color for an entire map). The list goes on. I am currently unable to play it.

 

[nickjsch]

Its funny i purchased from origin from day one, and haven't experienced any major issues apart from an odd glitch here and there, on certain maps i do cop some fps drops, in multiplayer 45-60 fps on certain maps, whether its hardware limitations I don't know, my specs: Asrock 980DE3/U3S3 motherboard - Amd fx 8350@stock 4.0 ghz - corsair 16gb ddr3@1600 mhz - Gigabyte radeon hd 7970@stock 3gb - powered by a corsair cx 600 psu- and some kickass cooling but i wont go into that

 

[jmonaco5]

Stocks should be illegal.......They are a perfect way to ruin a company, turn employees into numbers and take money away from those who deserve it......

 

[gamerk316]

Interested to see how far this gets. If anything, this might turn into a weapon to force devs to get the games working at release, even if it means missing a key deadline or two.

 

[jmonaco5]

BF4 is 90% efficient on my pc, only small glitches with server kicks and not being able to play through internet explorer. The teamspeak plugin wont work with IE, atleast on my rig, I use Chrome to play.

 

[_BigHead_]

So much poor grammar, come on guys... killing me.

Anyway, I wish that they would grant BF4 premium to those who pre-ordered and are stuck with the pile of crap that is the buggy BF$. Second I would hope that they give some of the DLC away for free to those who didn't pre-order but rightly deserve something, other than the crap game they spent their hard earned money on.

 

[catfishtx]

You guys hating on stocks and stock holders are missing the point. The stock holder is not the problem, management using inside info to artificially inflate the stock price is. That's what Martha Stewart (and many others) went to prison for. That's what the lawsuit is about.

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

So what if Windows 7 did have that.

It means that this is not a Windows 8 exclusive issue.
In other words; if this is your argument for claiming Windows 8 were unstable, then following your logic, Windows 7 would be just as unstable.

Dont tell me the computers are not having problems with Windows 8.1 because if you really bothered to check, you would see that there are very many people having problems with Windows 8.1

Likewise, there are many people having the same problem on Windows 7 as you have on Windows 8.1.

As for the learning curve; you obviously are too self-centered to appreciate you are just being typically offensive and should refrain from such immature stupidity.

Says the one who's acting the most immature and offensive around here. Oh, the irony.

For me Battlefield 4 has NEVER NEVER EVER Re-booted my computer. Unlike Windows 8.1 when I am not in-game.

Tell you what: Ever since I installed Battlefield 4 on my computer, it's got that habit of rebooting as soon as you perform some sort of demanding operation. It's never done that before.

Now, me with my measly 10 years of experience with computers decided to check my CPU temperature, and noticed it was abnormally high. I then opened my PC, removed my fan, and noticed that the thermal grease needed replacement. I removed the remaining grease, reapplied some new one, put everything back together, booted my PC, and played Battlefield 4 for like 5 hours.
My computer was as good as new.

If I had been you instead, I probably would've blamed Battlefield 4 or EA for breaking my PC, lol.
Like I said: "experience means nothing, if you never learned a thing". It's got nothing to do with being self-centered; it's the obvious truth.

 

[ubercake]

In a country where the shareholders can sue a software company for poor performance, can customers also sue the same company for buggy software?

 

[Its_Byte_00]

In a country where the shareholders can sue a software company for poor performance, can customers also sue the same company for buggy software?

Only If. Nvidia could try to call a industrial espionage on EA for promising full pc compatibility and removing files needed to run on NV's product & only allow people with AMD Cards to play…. Oh wait, Thats whats going on here…

 

[Shapeof Thesword]

Burn EA burn. Die in a fire.

 

[Camikazi]

@Rhinofart (funny name BTW) Anyway you are right, a quick search on that BSOD shows that it is related to graphics driving passing on faulty data meaning either the program or the driver is bad and not the OS. It could also be overheating (the plague of troubleshooting) and any other of many hardware related problems as well.

 

[M Blue]

Have bf 3 but wont buy BF 4 if i cant get a premuim edition hard copy with all the patches Enough with endless patches . Let the wait begin