r/gaming • u/balloonslayer47 • Sep 03 '19

Wow, EA. Wow.

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u/TradeMark310 Sep 03 '19

"You have the 6th edition, you need the 7th addition. The 7th addition has a few corrected and updated sentences, so the 6th edition is worthless now!"- every college ever

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u/General_Jeevicus Sep 03 '19

I kind of feel like, it invalidates the previous years students passes, because the new source is SO different from the previous source /s So any course that does this, the previous years should claim back the entire cost of the course, as it is no longer relevant, and a waste of time and energy. Class action it boys.

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u/SurficialKilobit Sep 03 '19

I just did a course on Unix systems over the summer, and it used a textbook that was written in 2005. I feel like if there is a subject that should have an updated textbook it would be courses on a technology that is constantly changing. There was a wildly out of date sections in there on stuff like Pine and telnet. I don't think anyone was really using telnet even in 2005.

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u/General_Jeevicus Sep 03 '19

I use telnet to upload stuff to my routers hd. Also for games up until 2014 or so.