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You’d think by now EA would have solved their incredibly predictable cluster fuck launches? I mean, fuck, they’ve been recycling the same game engine for years now. Every release is bug fixes and minor improvements. Alright, maybe I’m a little harsh, but that’s only because I spent the last 3 days trying to fix the game to remain at a competitive level online.

Clusterfuck #1. Purchasable Booster Packs, Equipment and Booster Slots

Why is this a clusterfuck? First off, it’s absurd to create the most realistic hockey simulation, then sprinkle it with toques, graphiti pads, cammo helmets or plain and simple Golden equipment… I mean what the fuck kind of contradiction is that? Here’s what takes the cake, you buy this shit to increase your player’s skills, with A FUCKIN CREDIT CARD. Can you sense the happy in my all caps? Kudos to the management team over at EA because this is a genius cash cow, but what a fuckin disasterpeice.

Clusterfuck #2. Configuring Purchasable Booster Packs, Equipment and Booster Slots

Ok, so with the combination of Helmet,Skates,Stick and Gloves you have 4 rows of slots, each row contains 3 columns of slots. Let’s do some math.

5+ is $2.25

3+ is $1.67

1+ is $1.12

Helmet ( with 3 boost slots ) $2.25

Skates ( with 3 boost slots ) $2.25

Stick ( with 3 boost slots ) $2.25

Gloves ( with 3 boost slots ) $2.25

Worst case scenario, upgrading your dude full pin is
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Equipment: $2.25 x 4 = $9

Slots: 4 Columns x 3 row of 5+ @ $2.25 = $45
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GRAND TOTAL = Suck my dick dollars. I mean $54

You’re reading this right, $54 dollars for virtually, fuck all. That takes balls. If you have a wife or girlfriend, I strongly suggest you don’t tell her you purchased this shit because she’ll probably stop fucking you. I’m lucky though, my wife is incredibly awesome.

Clusterfuck #4. The locking up of your unlocked purchased goodies

Oh wait there’s more. Once you purchase all your shiny gear. There’s a possibility of them not working. Here I was skating around with my fire skates and douche bag toque and my 95 slap shot power when all of a sudden I wanted to make changes to some of my attributes, everything I purchased became locked again. Couldn’t use anything I purchased.

Emailed EA, they offered suggestions, nothing helped so they told me to call sony. Did that, ya right, this is the bowels of suicidal tech support. Called EA, they escalated to tier 3 support. No response from them so had to take matter in to my own hands with some good old trouble shoot’n. I eventually solved my own problem by having to delete my entire account on ps3 loosing a bunch of shit, mostly time and sanity. Fix is here if you need it btw…

Clusterfuck #4. Disconnection Problems

There’s a slew of people having disconnection issues. Luckily I’m not one of them, but people on my club are having this problem. They claim not having it when they create a new PSNID, but my theory is the same that fixed my lock problem. Delete your account and re-create it.

Clusterfuck #5. Collision Issues.

Not really a clusterfuck but has been my main gripe with NHL series since 08. When I block the fuckin puck, that puck better not go directly through my body. Sticks, pucks, bodies going directly through sticks, pucks bodies just ruins the game. If I put a stick through your head, you’re probably not going to get up and there’s going to be a fuckin mess on the ice.

Conclusion

While this whole rant was incredibly negative, don’t get me wrong, best fuckin game ever and I know the crew over at EA worked like crazed monkeys to get this game out. This booster pack shit probably created lots of tension in team meetings and you can’t fix everything with deadlines I know so don’t take this to heart. I appreciate the hard work and magnificent game, minus these quirks.

Rock on.

I would purchase this and see them live in an instant. Rock on! Too bad I can’t find more info about them…

I spent a great portion of my childhood at the arcade. I remember going house to house collecting pop bottles and would trade them in for quarters. I also got a paper route, shoveled and mowed lawns to support my addiction. Thinking back, here are the games I spent the most money on. Now I can play them for free, and so can you!

1. Yie Ar Kung Fu ( Fuck I loved this game )
2. Track & Field
3. Bubble Bobble
4. Wonderboy (Unfortunately I can only find the shitty C64 Version)
5. 1941 – Counter Attack
6. Arkanoid
7. Black Tiger
8. Dragon’s Lair
9. Gauntlet
10. Kung Fu
11. Pac Land
12. Spy Hunter
13. Tapper

1. Open Finder
2. Search Keychain
3. Open Keychain Access
4. Click Keychain Access up in the menu bar
5. Click Keychain first aid
6. Put password, check repair, click start
7. Click verify to make sure there are no errors
8. Bob’s your uncle

So you have multiple computers, a delightful library of music in iTunes but want to play and sync the library across your Macs and Pc’s.  Not the most obvious thing to do is it, after all that’s how you’ve ended up here.

Before you proceed, please be aware that you can only have one instance of iTunes using the library at a time, if you have iTunes open on multiple machines, you’re gonna get f’d in the a. Again, do NOT have 2 instances of iTunes open at the same time.

Setup a library on the Mac

So what I’ve done is set my main library up on the mac. Get all your songs, album art and all that good stuff ready on the mac.

1. In iTunes, click Itunes, Preferences and go to the advanced tab
2. Note the Itunes music folder. You’ll need to go to that location after.
3. Check off “Keep iTunes Music folder organized“
4. Check off “Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library“
5. Click OK
6. Click file, Library, Consolidate Library (This will organize all your tunes into the folder you noted earlier.)
7. Wait for that to finish then close iTunes
8. Remember the iTunes music folder I told you to note in step 2? Go there in finder
9. There’s a file named iTunes Library, rename that to iTunes Library.itl. Don’t ask questions, just do it!
10. Now option click iTunes to open her up. (hold the option key on your keyboard, while holding the option key click on the iTunes icon)
11. iTunes is going to ask you which library to open, open iTunes Library.itl
12. Let iTunes rebuild your shit, then close iTunes (closing iTunes is IMPORTANT).
13. Take a break, sacrifice a lamb.

Setup iTunes on windows

1. Shift click iTunes (hold the shift key and click the iTunes icon to open)
2. iTunes will ask you which library to choose
3. Browse to your mac on the network into the folder noted earlier in step 2 of the mac setup and finally, open the library
4. Let iTunes rebuild your shit

Cheers and thanks for macosxhints’ crazor for the original inspira