Nymphonomicon

I would have explained that the "Karl Marx Award" is a /v/ga award for being a greedy publisher, but I didn't have enough room in the title.

...that and I was in kind of a hurry to report this since I didn't see anyone else on GB forums talking about this.

@Spoonman671 said:

@Nymphonomicon said:

EA nominating themselves for the Karl Marx award early this year

Oh, fuck off.

Karl Marx Award for most capitalistic publisher

It was recently revealed (IE today) that EA has hidden the codes for the multitude of DLC associated with Mass Effect 3 in various products and expect their customers to then run out and buy them. A cross promotion like this might be a nice slice of easter egg hunting joy if handled by a good publisher, but since this is EA at the reigns, they expect us to fork over $870+ for a handful of DLC codes.

http://www.destructoid.com/it-will-cost-you-around-870-to-get-mass-effect-3-s-dlc-222045.phtml

http://www.i4u.com/2012/02/it-will-cost-you-around-870-get-mass-effect-3s-dlc

http://social.bioware.com/forum/Mass-Effect-3/Mass-Effect-3-General-Discussion-No-ME3-Spoilers-allowed/870-for-everything-ME3--9323190-1.html

The titles to Final Fantasy games are increasingly resembling sports scoreboards...

My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic

"The Company" "The Rule"

I was not aware the Crackdown Naming Committee had law degrees...

I keep all my games. I really wish people would stop worrying about consoles that forbid you to play used games- for one, that's just a rumour; second, I fail to see how the games industry would be able to implement something like that without crippling their industry. If developers are so desperate to milk us for a few extra pennies at the cost of cutting off their own legs, then I wonder what they'll do when I and people like me that hate their anti-used BS don't buy their game...

@Bonsai: @Bonsai said:

Businesses should definitely have a method of protection against copyright infringement, but stopping something like sopa is more important.

I agree with the second thing you said.

Lawmakers treat copyright infringement like the Holy Grail nowadays, just look at SOPA and PIPA; they're ready to throw the internet under a bus just to protect their corporate masters' copyrights. The source of this problem isn't people using copyrighted materials improperly, it's the copyrights themselves. Copyright holders have far too many rights and power already, as evidenced by how much influence they have over the lawmaking process, they need some of that removed before more crooked bills get pushed through.

Bloody Pie

Mass Effect 3, the second Adventure Time DVD, and the next Brono Trigger ED episode.