Originally Posted by txa1265
So we're looking back on 2006, which looked to be a potentially historic year, and feeling a bit let down, voicing it, and we're the Codex? There is none of the vitriol, just some cynicism - which I think a company like EA (microtransactions and deliberate holdback of material has caused them to get slammed on console forums in a way that makes *anything* we say here look trivial) has earned.

EA has certainly earned it. So have reviewers who don't read manuals. The tone of a forum is the sum of these little exchanges. None of them matters much on its own.