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EA on Premium Pricing for 360: "These are deep, rich, complex games."
- Thread starter FrenchMovieTheme
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My only question is why absolutely no media never, ever, ever challenges statements like this.
Basically, every single review that i have seen for EA's launch games all agree on one thing and that is that the actual game is a downgrade in almost every way except where graphics and presentation are concerned.
Every reviewer admits that the 360 versions offer a much shallower gameplay exerience along with tons of things missing as opposed to being added that would make it qualify as being a premium edition of the title.
So they offer us less and expect even more money and not one single goddamn person from the media will ever even question them about it and we all get upset cause EA continues to do it. But honestly, if you were EA and you could do this and not only would people still continue to buy it but you would be able to make statements like this without any reprecussions whatsoever.
Basically, every single review that i have seen for EA's launch games all agree on one thing and that is that the actual game is a downgrade in almost every way except where graphics and presentation are concerned.
Every reviewer admits that the 360 versions offer a much shallower gameplay exerience along with tons of things missing as opposed to being added that would make it qualify as being a premium edition of the title.
So they offer us less and expect even more money and not one single goddamn person from the media will ever even question them about it and we all get upset cause EA continues to do it. But honestly, if you were EA and you could do this and not only would people still continue to buy it but you would be able to make statements like this without any reprecussions whatsoever.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
why would they? sadly, most gaming sites seem to be afraid to give terrible grades to major releases. if IGN were to give madden a 5.0, for example, maybe EA wouldn't send them early copies for review. maybe EA wouldn't send them any games at all in the future. it's not only EA, other companies play this game too. this is why gaming forums are a great place to get impressions.
on the bright side, i'm pretty sure EA downgraded their sales forecasts for Q4 and into next year. that, or their sales were down this year (or both?). maybe they will change their ways!
â Narayan
Member
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, EA. :lol
Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
It's like an article from the Onion, but it's real. I can see early adopters eager for something to show off their new system forking over $60 for these games, but that's not going to last forever. What I want to know is who pays $50 for EA games on the PSP that have the same problem. What are the sales on these games?
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Any1 said:
I'm reminded of the claims made on Gamefan Online before they shut down that at an industry event, game reviewers admited off the record that they gave Donkey Kong 64 high scores because it was a high profile Nintendo game. Not because it was very good.
Regardless of the exact validity of that, the game industry does seem largely like a racket in many ways. There is a reason so many say there is very little real journalism or honest opinion.
Consider in the motion picture industry, if a studio knows a movie is going to stink, they don't allow advance press screenings. This doesn't shut down the press; they wait till the movie comes out and then inform folks that it sucks. Be it for economic or other reasons, the gaming press appears to work differently - they don't want to cut off their supplies from the publishers. If major press outlets did regularly give a lot of the shovelware folks like EA put out the ratings it deserved*, or even just said "you know, you guys... look like crooks." then folks like EA might cut 'em off, sure.
* Yar, IGN gave EA's Burnout crudfest on the DS the rating it deserved (if that!), but I can't help but think it wasn't a very "important" game. I'd tend to think EA farted that one out without even realizing they'd cut the cheese. On stuff that just doesn't matter, it seems reviewers will cut loose with both barrels.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
ffft, now i see why you are praising live! for shaaaaame!
GitarooMan
Member
Ramirez said:
I don't know, I just played the demo a couple of times on All-Star difficulty. I still think it's too easy to score on fast breaks and too easy to score in general. In one game I was shooting 80 percent at the half. I guess I'll try the higher difficulty. I actually liked Live 2005 on Xbox, but for 360 I'm torn between 2K6 and Live.
mashoutposse said:
:lol
Open Source said:
:lol It's been a while...
FrenchMovieTheme said:
Everybody knows that the game review scene is a crooked, corrupt ass piece of shit, yet people still rush to post the first review score threads for whatever the big game of the moment is from a half dozen sites, with 300 posts filling said thread up in minutes to say how accurate or inaccurate the scores are. Gamers only have themselves to blame for such a sorry ass situation.
VictimOfGrief
Banned
Thankfully I haven't gotten one EA game this "next-gen" launch and I don't think I'm going to.
Their fuck up as a company is my failure...(apparently) as a consumer.
Their fuck up as a company is my failure...(apparently) as a consumer.
Is that why Peter Jackson dissed EA like no tomorrow and was perfectly happy working for UBI SOFT? Is that why EA had to monopolise the NFL market - with that many year contract to lock out their competition - so they can deliver nothing but sh*t games no matter how powerful the format they're developing on? Does EA still expect to fool the public by delivering great looking games with no substance any longer?
Bottom line: FU*K YOU EA!!! I agree with everyone here, that statement show what EA truly is for what they are, full of BS!
Bottom line: FU*K YOU EA!!! I agree with everyone here, that statement show what EA truly is for what they are, full of BS!
Version 3.0
Member
What EA needs is a better "formula". If they want to treat games as a business, okay, but just give a little more attention to quality and originality right there in your number crunching.
For example, mandate that just 10% of releases be new IPs, and give those jobs to your proven teams--I'll bet money they have some ideas. And for sequels, mandate that their feature list is not allowed to shrink year-on-year.
For example, mandate that just 10% of releases be new IPs, and give those jobs to your proven teams--I'll bet money they have some ideas. And for sequels, mandate that their feature list is not allowed to shrink year-on-year.