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"We believe that premium titles command premium pricing," said EA spokesperson Tammy Schachter when asked why EA's first-run 360 titles were selling for $10 more than the company's first-run titles for Xbox, PS2 and GameCube. "These are deep, rich, complex games."
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hmmm. seems funny to me that, in all cases that i know of, the EA launch games are actually a step DOWN from their xbox/ps2/gc counterparts, not "deep, rich, complex games". 30 fps, cut features, glitches, and poor online performance (in the case of madden). not only that, but one thing that irritates the shit out of me is the instruction manuals for EA games. i used to jokingly feign anger at the 3-5 page EA instruction booklets, but it has gone beyond being a shoddy, black and white instruction book. there is incorrect information printed, there is information that isn't printed at all (that should be), and there is a general laziness to the entire package.

i am required to give EA the benefit of the doubt in regards to their launch games. i have to believe that games like Madden 2007 and live 2007 will be the real deal, but right now i'm pretty disappointed at the reaction to the EA launch games.
 
Why was the ability to challenge plays removed from the X360 version of Madden? WTF?!?!??!
 
are they serious?? :lol

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Now why did I have to read that just after seeing the King Kong trailer.
 
ahahaha more EL OH EL's NEEDED ahahaha :lol

good lord EA. you true own this industry if your puppy tripe sells the way it does. i can't believe they took features out of this years versions and charged £10 more! wtf is this? :lol
 
anthony said:
ahahaha more EL OH EL's NEEDED ahahaha :lol

good lord EA. you true own this industry if your puppy tripe sells the way it does. i can't believe they took features out of this years versions and charged £10 more! wtf is this? :lol
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Next Gen is the term you're looking for..... :)
 
:lol

Translation:

"We invested a ton of money in the wrong places so all we got was prettier versions of the same game you've been playing for years so we've decided to jack up game prices to keep our margins high and screw the consumers with mediocre games."
 
A big
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is in order for EA.
 
Good job at being the worst developer this century, EA. You truly do put a smile on everybodies face.

P.S. :lol
 
In all seriousness, when was the last actually "AAA" game that EA and their "conglomerates" made ?

I would have said maybe SSX tricky, but that didnt add enough to an already good (SSX) game.
 
Its gotten to the point, for me anyways, that I simply don't buy anything by EA...not some stupid boycott as I do buy games that are occasionally punlished by them (Oddworld Stranger's Wrath)...its the titles that EA produces themselves that I avoid. All their titles seem to have the same level of quality that I would call "good enough." It's like they spend thier money getting a title to a set standard and then rush to print. Formulaic is another critisism I would accuse them of.

Worse yet, any game that is good usually comes with its own caveats...too short, too repetitive, bad animation, etc. Nobody more than me, knew what it meant to see the NFL license go to EA...mediocrity.

I hope all those EA apologists that were screaming "VICTORY" when NFL 2k series died are buying these copies...they deserve them.
 
Ryudo said:
In all seriousness, when was the last actually "AAA" game that EA and their "conglomerates" made ?

I would have said maybe SSX tricky, but that didnt add enough to an already good (SSX) game.
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Well, the last two Burnout games were great, but that's not really EA.
 
Well, to be fair, NFS Most Wanted is enhanced over the Xbox 1 version :)

I can't speak for any of the sports games except Tiger Woods, which I agree was pretty meh at best.

You know, maybe MS did rush this generation out, it looks like the the biggest publishers (EA and Activision) have just about nothing in the way of unique content at launch...actually, the only "you can only play this on Xbox 360 games" are...

Condemned
Kameo
Perfect Dark Zero
Project Gotham Racing 3
Amped 3
Ridge Racer 6
Dead or Alive 4 (if it makes it out before the end of the year)

...everything else is delayed, it seems :( PS3 launch probably won't be as bad even if the hardware comes late (as in devkits only a few months before launch) because I think publishers will just port their 360 games over...
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
hmmm. seems funny to me that, in all cases that i know of, the EA launch games are actually a step DOWN from their xbox/ps2/gc counterparts, not "deep, rich, complex games". 30 fps, cut features, glitches, and poor online performance (in the case of madden). not only that, but one thing that irritates the shit out of me is the instruction manuals for EA games. i used to jokingly feign anger at the 3-5 page EA instruction booklets, but it has gone beyond being a shoddy, black and white instruction book. there is incorrect information printed, there is information that isn't printed at all (that should be), and there is a general laziness to the entire package.

i am required to give EA the benefit of the doubt in regards to their launch games. i have to believe that games like Madden 2007 and live 2007 will be the real deal, but right now i'm pretty disappointed at the reaction to the EA launch games.
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Shitty manuals drive me crazy. Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 doesn't even describe what you should do to get out of a pin, for example, and the whole thing is horribly disorganized and deficient. How hard is it for an enormous company to pay people to make a comprehensive, polished manual when people on GameFAQs make things 100x better for free? I will never understand terrible manuals, it's the biggest no-brainer.
 
don't misunderstand ladies, madden 2006 for xbox is pretty easily game of the year (for myself anyways). my problem is how they are handling "premium pricing" when they are infact degrading the product, not improving it. i guess this is just how EA is (they did the samething with PS2 madden 2001). i hope madden 2007 will rebound, but it just sucks that it played out this way.

p.s. i dislike most EA games. madden is the exception, that is why madden 360 pains me so much (if infact it is as bad as my gaf madden league buddies say it is!)
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
don't misunderstand ladies, madden 2006 for xbox is pretty easily game of the year (for myself anyways). my problem is how they are handling "premium pricing" when they are infact degrading the product, not improving it. i guess this is just how EA is (they did the samething with PS2 madden 2001). i hope madden 2007 will rebound, but it just sucks that it played out this way.

p.s. i dislike most EA games. madden is the exception, that is why madden 360 pains me so much (if infact it is as bad as my gaf madden league buddies say it is!)
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Oh, it is...
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
don't misunderstand ladies, madden 2006 for xbox is pretty easily game of the year (for myself anyways). my problem is how they are handling "premium pricing" when they are infact degrading the product, not improving it. i guess this is just how EA is (they did the samething with PS2 madden 2001). i hope madden 2007 will rebound, but it just sucks that it played out this way.

p.s. i dislike most EA games. madden is the exception, that is why madden 360 pains me so much (if infact it is as bad as my gaf madden league buddies say it is!)
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But, FMT they are able to do this because people will buy it, which includes you. I don't particularly care if you play Madden (i'm not bashing that) but the fact that you disagree with in their pricing scheme is not matched by the fact that you bought it.

Edit...Oh shit sorry. Didn't read that you haven't played it. Well then good for you.
 
that would be fine EA, assuming games like PGR3 and Kameo did not exist for 49.99
Same goes to you Activision for THAW and GUN
 
it's pretty clear that Tammy, and people like her, are out of touch with reality. while i could believe that a company employee would lie to appease the media and save face, i honestly believe that a lot of these people truly feel this way. this lady probably never plays videogames, has no clue wtf most of this stuff is, but she sees nice graphics and says "welp, premium content!" of course she HAS to say that anyways, but apparently upgraded graphics = deep, rich, complex games (which, graphically speaking, maybe they are)
 
But, FMT they are able to do this because people will buy it, which includes you. I don't particularly care if you play Madden (i'm not bashing that) but the fact that you disagree with in their pricing scheme is not matched by the fact that you bought it.

Edit...Oh shit sorry. Didn't read that you haven't played it. Well then good for you.
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sadly, i already bought madden 360 :( i just haven't played it yet because i can't find an actual system to play it on.

it's not that i blindly buy everything EA releases, but leading up to its release, the impressions were favorable. not only by mainstream media websites, but also by individual fansites and so on. this was further solidified by madden 2006 (xbox ps2), which was fantastic.

sadly there really isn't any other choice for football fans. it's madden or nothing. you can throw the argument out that "well without competition you see what you get!", and that is true to an extent, but EA has ALWAYS done this (as evidenced numerous times in the past, even when there was competition).

it's pretty shitty that there are no other alternatives, but i don't think we would have seen a vastly different madden 360 even if NFL 2k6 was around. just my opinion on the matter, though
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
sadly, i already bought madden 360 :( i just haven't played it yet because i can't find an actual system to play it on.

it's not that i blindly buy everything EA releases, but leading up to its release, the impressions were favorable. not only by mainstream media websites, but also by individual fansites and so on. this was further solidified by madden 2006 (xbox ps2), which was fantastic.

sadly there really isn't any other choice for football fans. it's madden or nothing. you can throw the argument out that "well without competition you see what you get!", and that is true to an extent, but EA has ALWAYS done this (as evidenced numerous times in the past, even when there was competition).

it's pretty shitty that there are no other alternatives, but i don't think we would have seen a vastly different madden 360 even if NFL 2k6 was around. just my opinion on the matter, though
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Well said. Hopefully all the negative reactions I am hearing from EVERYONE iI know who bought the game will result in an overhaul of some things.
 
That quote sums up the industry and the consumer who supports it as a whole. Just a bunch of suits who know nothing about creating video games, only how to screw over people who don't know any better.
 
I haven't bought nor played an EA game since 1996, guess i made the right decision after playing FIFA 64 which tend out to be a piece of shit and i've been following the FIFA series by reading mostly online reviews, its the same shit from 1996 with just some name changes and prettier graphics.

WE or bust
 
True, we may not have had a better version of Madden if NFL2K6 were around, but we'd have NFL2k6.

But that's in the land of What If, where all the dreams come true (Ranger-X 2!!!)






:(
 
it's really easy to talk shit about EA because of their machine like behavior... but c'mon you have to give it up to the development team. you can tell that they put lots of hard work to create a next-gen experience. the "shortcomings" are largely due to the fact that it takes years of hard work to develop a long list of game modes and extras....

but shit, if there's one thing i can't bag on in their 360 offerings is the amount of graphical detail they've introduced in next gen gaming. the graphics of most, if not all EA's launch titles are fucking great. hate all you want, but i haven't seen anything this generation that could touch what madden, nba live 2006, and need for speed most wanted pulled off. take the goggles off and try and appreciate their effort.

c'mon, give them some credit for once.
 
Billy Rygar said:
Well said. Hopefully all the negative reactions I am hearing from EVERYONE iI know who [still] bought the game will result in an overhaul of some things.
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Hey, good luck with that.
 
hyp said:
it's really easy to talk shit about EA because of their machine like behavior... but c'mon you have to give it up to the development team. you can tell that they put lots of hard work to create a next-gen experience. the "shortcomings" are largely due to the fact that it takes years of hard work to develop a long list of game modes and extras....

but shit, if there's one thing i can't bag on in their 360 offerings is the amount of graphical detail they've introduced in next gen gaming. the graphics of most, if not all EA's launch titles are fucking great. hate all you want, but i haven't seen anything this generation that could touch what madden, nba live 2006, and need for speed most wanted pulled off. take the goggles off and try and appreciate their effort.

c'mon, give them some credit for once.
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while you're at it, give them an extra 10$ per title. they deserve it!
 
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