BF 2142 already hacked

Well, that’s kind of realistic; often in online games people are concerned with the size of their e-peens… they picked the perfect market to advertise that movie!

Oh, sure–there are some brands that could work. Are those the ads they are going to get, though? Somehow, I have trouble believing that EA is going to be that selective.

Heh. Other shots:

As the article says, few things make a utilitarian base look more realistic than a huge mounted billboard for a bad movie.

I really, REALLY despise the trend in our culture to commercialize things we already pay for. My XM radio - which I pay a subscription for - has Cialis ads. Movies - which I pay to attend - have Coke commercials before the movie starts. Now MMOs and other multiplayer games - which, again, I paid for - are plugging in commercials. This is pathetically transparent exploitation and why we put up with it as consumers, I don’t know.

Not that I feel anything about it one way or the other, or anything.

I don’t either, but maybe it can tie into the recent thread about the 40% addiction rate in WoW.

It’s stuff like this that threatens to stifle my interest in gaming permanently. Contemporary advertising has always felt manipulative to me, and it’s seemingly impossible to escape. I won’t willingly subject myself to it, even as it infects a hobby I enjoy. I think I’ll just spend more time outside. Until someone puts an ad in the sky.

MMM. Refreshing taste of lemon in the future!

What’s that, Mythic?

Oh well, too late.

Unless it’s giant floating jumbo-trons of geishas selling me electronics, ala Blade Runner…

I read the link, the bit that gets me is the idea that children even know what section of the sky is Virgo in the first place. I certainly was never taught that sort of thing in the public education system. Hell, you’re lucky in some populated areas if you can even SEE the stars through all the smog.

Lum: the XM thing bothered me too when they sent out the mailing, but they handled it ok.

It was something like, clearchannel had some investment in them and wanted to start putting ads on the channels they had a stake in or something. So what they did was, they allowed CC to put ads in like 12-14 channels or some shit, and then added that same amount of new channels, so you still have the same # of commrecial free channels.

It was some attempt to mitigate the problem, at least.

Didn’t mitigate it for me, I’m going out to buy a Sirius set today. None of the channels they added I had any interest in, and they are dropping channels right and left (MSNBC is getting axed next month)

Don’t kid yourself though, a bunch of the Sirius channels have commercials too.

Not sure how much detail anyone wants on this, but as a Sirius subscriber, I can tell you that there are no commercials on any of the music channels. Most of the talk channels have rare breaks, far fewer than commercial radio. Stern, the company’s biggest draw only plays five minutes of commercials every hour and a half or so. If you’re looking to get away from all the ads, Sirius is definitely the place to be.

The wallhack isn’t that big of a deal, guys. This game features some futuristic version of the Advanced Warfighter HUD that lets everyone in your squad see all the enemies you see, or that your various gizmos detect.

Truly they are greater than even Nostradamus.

It’s in beta though.

Games by EA never really leave beta though. The main difference is how much money they can extract from you for the privelege of playing.

No pay-per-view preview special for BF2142? Oh wait, you have to pay Fileplanet money to play the beta.

If the “retail” version fixes any of these issues it would be a Christmas miracle. Unfortunately Christmas is still months away.

Still think this should be a $10 mod for BF2.

Why fix shit when you only get paid for shoveling it?

I want to like the BF1942 series. Maybe it’s the visceral nature of the combat in the game. The sound effects. The excellent streetfights.

But having said that every single game I have purchased in the series has been buggy, drops sound, has graphics glitches, CTD’s and as the series moves along takes increasingly longer to load missions. This was over a series of PC’s with Intel/AMD and nVidia/ATI chipsets. Last but not least there is the completely cocked up logging in process that refuses to allow me to change my ingame name.

I like what I see in BF2142 but I am not looking forward to another buggy piece of crap.

Yeah I’ll just echo what he said here. I have had Sirius for almost 2 years now and no commercials on the music stations and Stern really does not play that many commercials.