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EA had a fantastic 2013, huh?
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crazyrabbits
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Multiply that by all the studios EA has bought and shuttered while they're in the midst of active projects. Origin, Pandemic, Bullfrog...the list goes on. Localizing is small beans compared to that, but you're debating semantics at this point.
As an aside, I give EA a lot of shit, but Moore is pretty much the only guy I respect over there. He has the balls to say what he feels, even if it makes him look foolish on occasion. I can at least respect that, if nothing else.
DiamondDogs
Neo Member
I think the worst offense was the fake trailers they showed for next gen footage at E3.
Star Wars is a shit brand built on 15 years of mediocrity at best, and absolute shit for the most part.
A perfect fit for EA.
Moore deserves zero respect. He has been an arrogant twat in the past. Lied about RROD, flipped off scammed customers with 'things break' denials, and now he is presiding over EA Sports which is responsible for Fifa hacks and widespread credit card fraud on psn and xbl.
Everything he touches ends up being shit.
Lol everyone does that man, CGI the hell out of every trailer and communicate it as "In game footage"
SneakyStephan
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If everyone jumped off a bridge would you do it too? (I hope you get the meta point of this post)
Dog Problems
Banned
I totally forgot about the third Army of Two game. Too bad that series never made it to PC. I really enjoyed the first game.
Riccitiello was in charge then. I thought he was trying to turn things around, pushing lots of new IP. Or maybe he was just riding out the last guy's tenure who was doing all that stuff.
There was a short period of change at EA and I always thought that Riccitiello spearheaded that but maybe that's not the case.
pants
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Having a ton of fun with BF4 but no amount of enjoyment is going to make me look passed a games technical flaws.
I can play for sure, a lot actually. But the over arching crashes just pain me as i dont know which game will crash and which wont.. It cam happy on any map (more frequent on some than others) but the roulette really stresses me out lol. It hurts thatthey oushed this thing out like this. I have had issues with launch dice games in the past, but i havent experienced anything auite to this degree.. Im pretty sure they dont even know what the general issue is either, considering they are asking for help on the matter.
This is why i was excited when the visceral rumors started floating.. Hoping for a change in developement pace or something.
I couldnt tell you if this was due to EA or DICE but i can tell you DICE have no idea how to fix the issues, especially the crashes even after months of release, so that at peast is on them.
They want to head on COD so terribly that they are willing to sacrifice their core audience to do so and i hope it doesmt beckme a trend and rather a one off, after seeing our reaction.
The halting of dlc developement is a start.
I can play for sure, a lot actually. But the over arching crashes just pain me as i dont know which game will crash and which wont.. It cam happy on any map (more frequent on some than others) but the roulette really stresses me out lol. It hurts thatthey oushed this thing out like this. I have had issues with launch dice games in the past, but i havent experienced anything auite to this degree.. Im pretty sure they dont even know what the general issue is either, considering they are asking for help on the matter.
This is why i was excited when the visceral rumors started floating.. Hoping for a change in developement pace or something.
I couldnt tell you if this was due to EA or DICE but i can tell you DICE have no idea how to fix the issues, especially the crashes even after months of release, so that at peast is on them.
They want to head on COD so terribly that they are willing to sacrifice their core audience to do so and i hope it doesmt beckme a trend and rather a one off, after seeing our reaction.
The halting of dlc developement is a start.
I found also disgusting how Ghost games (with former employes from criterion) said it's ok to have 30fps on PC with NFS Rivals. It baffles my mind that a engine like Frostbite 3 can do much more than that but the ignorance from them is horrible. EA wants to make good pc games? Make them not limit a PC to it's power and stop making shoddy console ports this feels like it's 2005 all over again. Why does NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 have the same thing and it works like a charm? I hope your reading this people from EA because these practices are unacceptable.
makingmusic476
Member
I haven't bought an EA game since SimCity 4, afaik.
I was tempted by the new SimCity, but its online issues, tiny city size, and the more generalized gutting of features ensured that did not happen. Oh, and Origin.
Though I did download the FIFA14 demo for ps4.
I was tempted by the new SimCity, but its online issues, tiny city size, and the more generalized gutting of features ensured that did not happen. Oh, and Origin.
Though I did download the FIFA14 demo for ps4.
Femmeworth
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I don't know about those other games but Dead Space 3 is downright embarrassing enough due to the story alone.
UltraGunner
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I hope they win Worst Company every year, if only so we can get more humble bundles out of them.
The Dutch Slayer
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I have not played or purchased any EA game in 2013.
When I did in other years so I think they really messed up this year with all releases in my book.
When I did in other years so I think they really messed up this year with all releases in my book.
efyu_lemonardo
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EA had several chances to change this stigma with their EA Partners Program.
Do you want me to go over each of the games they published as a part of that program and see how the developers and end-products were affected in each case?
They love buying up them studios only to either close them down right after or later after...or simply stick their greedy hands into their newly acquired studios and ruin them.
Two series that i really liked until EA bought them out and ruined them or flat out vaporized the franchise were..
1. Rallisport Challenge Series
2. Burnout Series
Both excellent racing games until EA bought out their studios...now none of them are around...well Burnout is now basically Need For Speed but my point is EA buys some awesome studios only to fuck them up or kill them off...pathetic!!
Then we do not know the real deal behind closed doors on the NFL Exclusive deal but NFL2k football games were fun regardless of their shortcomings..but soon as the NFL2k games started to surpass Madden...once again who's fingerprints do we see left over after the disaster and the dust settles? EA
People say it was not EA's fault on the NFL deal...but man i sure feel like there were some EA Shenanigans going on behind closed doors in that deal
Two series that i really liked until EA bought them out and ruined them or flat out vaporized the franchise were..
1. Rallisport Challenge Series
2. Burnout Series
Both excellent racing games until EA bought out their studios...now none of them are around...well Burnout is now basically Need For Speed but my point is EA buys some awesome studios only to fuck them up or kill them off...pathetic!!
Then we do not know the real deal behind closed doors on the NFL Exclusive deal but NFL2k football games were fun regardless of their shortcomings..but soon as the NFL2k games started to surpass Madden...once again who's fingerprints do we see left over after the disaster and the dust settles? EA
People say it was not EA's fault on the NFL deal...but man i sure feel like there were some EA Shenanigans going on behind closed doors in that deal
I would actually love an in-depth examination of the EA Partners program. Tales and insight from the industry always fascinate me ... especially when shit goes wrong.
I thought Microsoft owned the Rallisport Challenge IP ?
Everyone is terrified of NDAs and vindictive firings.
Gossips comes very rarely via people like CBOAT, and even her/him has been muzzled.
IdreamofHIME
Member
I can feel the disappointment from my monitor. Sorry Vince
I just can't help but think there'll be a shorter wait period between Titanfall 1 and 2 then there was with MvC3 and UMvC3.
teruterubozu
Member
Tetris Blitz was their best game...if you could get past the ads.
good thread. i don't even have to try to boycott them, they don't make anything i'm interested in.
battlefield 4 is shameful though. i hope this has a huge impact on the future sales potential of the series and gets the shareholders grumpy.
that game being quietly shelved ala bg&e2 will be a nice part of this thread next year or the year after
battlefield 4 is shameful though. i hope this has a huge impact on the future sales potential of the series and gets the shareholders grumpy.
that game being quietly shelved ala bg&e2 will be a nice part of this thread next year or the year after
efyu_lemonardo
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I'm actually not an industry insider and am just basing my opinion off of stuff that is known.
A lot of the information has been gathered on wikipedia and if you read about the individual games in the EA Partners program you'll see many of them caused considerable trouble for the developer and/or resulted in a poorly received end-product. These include APB, Brutal Legend, FUSE, Hellgate:London, Kingdoms of Amalur, and Syndicate. Some also had potential to be expanded and grown but were not given the chance such as BulletStorm. EA was probably not directly responsible for all of these games' failures, but the pattern isn't pretty. The recent TitanFall (also an EA Partners game) news on twitter also shows they still have issues to work on.
symmetrical
Member
Does Zampella's comment imply Titanfall would have been on PS platforms?
Feel the same actually. Well at least it won't be too hard to ignore their output.
Neuromancer
Member
Eventually, yes.
Excluding The Saboteur, which I nabbed for free thanks to OS3874XVC-gate, I think the last EA game I bought was Alice: Madness Returns.
Sorry for the OT, but... What's up with all these users putting on a Saoirse Ronan's avatar these days?
I feel like we were facing the invasion of the JaseC-snatchers.
The best kind of invasion.
It's terrible that EA didn't even inform the Titanfall devs about the Microsoft exclusivity.
I picked up Battlefield 4 for £15 and probably wouldn't have paid more than £20 for it.
Waiting for a Premium sale. Despite all the issues people are reporting on BF4 I haven't really experienced any. Apart from Battelog refusing to connect every now and then/displaying pings
I picked up Battlefield 4 for £15 and probably wouldn't have paid more than £20 for it.
Waiting for a Premium sale. Despite all the issues people are reporting on BF4 I haven't really experienced any. Apart from Battelog refusing to connect every now and then/displaying pings
I thought Pocket Tactics was a more than fair website to base that opinion on. The game might have been patched later to better help with the economy, but that doesn't change the initial opinions that a lot of people had for the game.
Outright Villainy
Member
Exactly. The fact that, in earnest, some people actually believe EA are the worst company in America just shows how ridiculously myopic some people can be. It's kind of scary.
Atomic Airplanes
Member
Giving $10.5 million to charity.... How dare they. WORST PEOPLE EVER.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/09/ea-donates-165-million-to-the-american-cancer-society
Also 8 AAA games for $5? God they're so cheap!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/09/ea-donates-165-million-to-the-american-cancer-society
Also 8 AAA games for $5? God they're so cheap!
What is the point you're trying to make here?
That a ridiculously terrible company can occasionally do something good?
Okay.
So?
None of that means they aren't a ridiculously terrible company.
Lol, every corporate company EVER in America gives to charity. Doesn't mean that they aren't still terrible.Giving $10.5 million to charity.... How dare they. WORST PEOPLE EVER.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/09/ea-donates-165-million-to-the-american-cancer-society
Also 8 AAA games for $5? God they're so cheap!
The game was not patched later to better help the economy. I beat the entire game a few days after release, unlocked all stages and got all stars and non-iap items.
I read the review, it's not a fair article at all. The "grind" he talked about is redoing the same stage with additional challenges. It's not playing the same level the exact same way again. It's the same mechanism used in modern Mario games. You earn stars by replaying the same level but are asked to play it differently. All these complains are from people who just want to go straight from start to finish (which is only 30 or so levels) without doing any of the challenges or optional levels. The game could be beaten in hours if you play it that way.
And that's the only point made in the entire review, which shows that the guy was biased to hell and just wanted to use whatever excuse to slam EA and F2P games, despite PopCap doing a pretty good followup.
There's a lot to hate about EA, but I am not going to let biased reviews slide especially when they basically gave veteran gamers a free game in PvZ2.
Edit: I haven't tried the latest update yet, but apparently they've made the game linear without branching to appease the people who complained like the Pocket Tactics reviewer, and in doing so they've completely scrapped the Mario style game progression and actually made the game worse. Well, thanks for nothing!
cripterion
Member
You ain't gotta like it but the hood gonna love it, people still buy their games, myself included albeit I got FIFA 14 for free. But I went ahead and bought BF4 + premium on pc, not like there's a whole lot of choice of other games like it out there...
EA is bad but I feel people should be blaming Dice too.
EA is bad but I feel people should be blaming Dice too.
Atomic Airplanes
Member
Wow. Gaf cynicism at its worst. That's right my fellow gamers, every facet of Electronic Arts is out to ruin your life and haunt your dreams. This year might not have been the best for the company in terms of PR, but my god. THE WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD would not give money to charity or participate in a program like The Humble Indie Bundle.
Just keep in that in mind and vote with your money. You have every right to ignore EA outright. No harm to you.
Edit: Oh yeah, no more of these either.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
A ploy to get people into Origin? Right... that is why they included a copy for both steam and origin. You only needed origin if you wanted to play games that are only located on origin.
I can't express my frustration at reading all these posts trying to twist EA's donating all the profits (this is not even normal for humble bundles) to charity into some evil motivated act of selfishness and/or depravity. And the bundle they put up was amazing...
IISANDERII
Member
Peter Moore and I share a different definition of the word "great".
First has never been said.
Second is an understatement of the highest order.
Third is a tax write off
Fourth is a fair point and what I will be doing from now on
And fifth unless I am mistaken they started the whole online pass thing