{"id":19452,"date":"2013-04-17T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19452"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:54:22","slug":"diecast-9-ea-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19452","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #9: EA Wins, BioWare&#8217;s Integrity, Sherlock Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/splash_diecast.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='splash_diecast.jpg' title='splash_diecast.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>You know, we had a long list of topics in the queue for this week. We really don&#8217;t want this to be an EA bashing podcast. But dangit, EA is just so busy making noise.<\/p>\n<p><!--Remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast9.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast9.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast9.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast9.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast9.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/mbafford-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/diecast.xml'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><br \/>--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/6lYAQCDJ#kq-IddOG4gk1uS1z2sKg7jZeBkB8PIwO05RY9_t-iHA!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/6lYAQCDJ#kq-IddOG4gk1uS1z2sKg7jZeBkB8PIwO05RY9_t-iHA\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/3wwjTZ6Z#XSZPB455RXOTbLTgOPlbqXGPwZgMkyFFI21SpuqAaXM\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Show notes: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00<\/strong> <em>What&#8217;s everyone playing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Josh is filing taxes. Bo-ring!<\/p>\n<p>Shamus is playing Black Mesa. Thief 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/kerbalspaceprogram.com\/\">Kerbal Space Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn is playing Galactic Civilizations 2. The first entry of his Let&#8217;s Play is here:<br \/>\n<a title=\" Galactic Civilizations 2: God Save the Space Queen \" href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=4670\">Galactic Civilizations 2: God Save the Space Queen<\/a>. He&#8217;s also playing some <a title=\"It's Mount &amp; Blade, actually.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_%26_Blade\">Mountain Blade<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>(For the archive archaeologists out there, the posts Shamus wrote about this game in 2006 can be found <a href=\"?tag=gal-civ\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Chris is playing Torchlight 2, Super Hexagon, Dishonored DLC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15:50<\/strong> <em>Bad SimCity news this week:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing to report. However, they are working hard to give us something to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/penny-arcade.com\/report\/article\/simcity-as-advertising-platform-how-ea-rewards-you-for-buying-real-world-pr\">next week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00<\/strong> <em>EA voted &#8220;Worst company in America&#8221; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row\/\">second year in a row<\/a>. <\/em> Here is the Peter Moore statement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/news\/we-can-do-better\">made things worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>33:30 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/123200-EA-Gave-BioWare-Complete-Creative-Control\">EA Gave BioWare &#8220;Complete Creative Control&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>42:50<\/strong> <em>An unplanned tangent on Valve&#8217;s approach to Half-Life and the fact that it&#8217;s obvious they have no plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>47:20 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/123139-Devs-Had-to-Demand-Female-Focus-Testers-for-The-Last-of-Us\">Devs Had to Demand Female Focus Testers for The Last of Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>53:00<\/strong> Heads up: Vary mild spoilers for Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. 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