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ABUSING TWITTER

 Time to discuss 

I for one abuse my twitter account, I talk complete nonsense about absolutely nothing in particular. My tweets range from West Ham support/abuse *depending on the current score*, MW3 abuse *no support needed*, things I see or say during the day. It's a place where I don't feel like I'm being judged. I don't care how many followers I have, I use those 140 characters to talk about things I care about.
Obviously not everyone uses twitter for this purpose, there are the marketing aspects to it, create a bit of buzz around the world by creating a hashtag and trying to get it trending.
I only follow people who I deem interesting, these are the people who's rambles or products I want to know about.



Footballers, some are brilliant ala @CarltonCole, @themichaelowen, @waynerooney, @Official_MattT to name but a few.  Some of them are complete and utter stains @Joey7Barton for instance is one, he quotes Nietzsche for example. Why? To make him sound intelligent like he's actually worth listening to, he's not that violent guy we witnessed at the end of last season. In actual fact he is, his tweets this morning directed at America and the Lance Armstrong incident are a farce. Many young people listen to what these people have to say, it's condoning racism, deeming a nation stupid because they continue to donate to a charity. (I am aware of the scandal surrounding Lance Armstrong). What next from this bambling buffoon? 

@TheRealAC3 is another one, although fairly new to the twitter scene, could be blind to how big twitter actually is, it's not like you're in the training room and can have banter with all the boys, there are journalists following you waiting for you to fuck up and pounce on it. The thing is there's always going to a critic. 
Look at what's happened before, people have been arrested for comments they've made on twitter, this is now mainstream media it can't be taken with a pinch of salt, make a mistake and that's it, you could end up in the cells for a night or worse.  

I've went off topic from what I originally intended to discuss, solely blamed on Joey Barton and his idiotic tweets this morning, I don't feel that I've fully discussed this properly, I may continue this on in my next blog over and out  
@khewco

EA Sports it's NOT in the game

This is my second attempt at "blogging", it's pretty much just me having a rant about what is 'grinding my gears' at the minute, currently that anger is directed towards those lovely fellas over at EA.

It has been well documented and proven over the years that EA when on form can produce a top notch game, look at NHL 94, Tiger Woods PGA Tour '10 & so on.
Which brings me to my point FIFA 13 is an absolute shambles, they don't listen to the consumer the same people who buy this game year in and year out (like myself). Firstly the EA servers, it's the same in every EA game, the servers are crap to put it nicely. They disconnect constantly, sign you out when you're in the middle of a match and get a DNF (punishment which they included in the game due to quitters). I've been trying to build an ultimate team at the minute, I only get so far and the servers disconnect on me therefore disabling me from playing that mode.
Take a hint from other successful games and how they run their servers, yes it may be the 'fastest selling sports game ever'  but that title will not continue if they do not face up to their issues and fix the problems. It's not only FIFA 13 that has this issue, FIFA 10,11 & 12 all carried this same problem on release. Also NHL 13 is exactly the same, I want to play on-line, in fact I've played full price for the game to get the on-line pass, to enable me to PLAY ON-LINE and when I try, it's like EA take a shit in my mouth and say "no chance mate".

If this issue isn't addressed and resolved, I for one will not be purchasing FIFA next year, dare I say I may even cross over to PES *shudders*. I cannot say enough for FIFA off-line, the manager mode is brilliant, the be a pro mode is fantastic, in-fact that overall is my favourite part of the game this year.

I just want to be able to take full advantage of all the game modes when I feel free to do so, not when EA decide it's okay for me.
I mean I can't enjoy Ultimate Team, I'm having to wheel and deal on the iOS app because I can't get near the mode sometimes while on my xbox.
Initially I blamed my ISP, but after a quick internet search I found it was not only me who was suffering the problem.
SO after that I decided to tweet EA themselves @EASPORTSFIFA for some answers, low and behold no answer.. Why you might ask yourself would they not address the issue, well they're to busy asking followers what country they're favourite players are from etc. Like it's all a bit of a laugh to them, well I suppose I am the idiot because I bought the fame, lined their pockets, they don't care now, they got what they wanted from me. The next time they'll care about me is when they're pushing DLC on me.

I suppose some would say you get that from all game twitter accounts. NO is the correct answer there, the Battlefield  twitter account is brilliant. Tweet them with an issue and they get back to you with an answer on what's going on. In some cases they even apologise for what's happening.

I spend hard earned money on my games and consoles, I at least expect when I have an issue that I will be given an explanation as to what's happening.
I could say I vow never to buy another EA game again but that's an outright lie, they'll put on some fancy advert, make the game look beyond amazing and then when you spend the money on it take it home put it in the console BAMMM that's when it hits you that it sucks.

I know this is all over the place and probably makes no actual sense, I just came here to vent a little frustration, I feel a bit better now maybe I'll go play FIFA...................*5 minutes later*

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Thanks for reading and if you like you can follow me on twitter for my daily ramblings @khewco