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Hearing that, I think EA's worse than Activision. And it's a shame, they have a lot of series I really like, not the least f which is Dead Space. And the "evolved with consumers" line is a joke; can't wait to see the Dragon Age 3 reviews.
I can't even form words describing how silly he sounds. I get how stupid popular Call of Duty is, but have you really turned that desperate that you outright refuse projects focusing on single-player?
This shit can't collapse in on itself quickly enough.
This shit can't collapse in on itself quickly enough.
"Electronic Arts' games label boss"
What the frick is a label boss, and his job requirements, anyway? I mean, I do kinda trust that he's spewing the truth here, even if he doesn't have ultimate, all knowing, say, but honestly, unless we're hearing it from Riccitiello I really can kinda care less what this says on such matters. As far as I know (or care) this guy is middle management and has a comb-over.
Also, Bioware needs to get out from under EA's skirt and find a new publisher, cause its getting harder and harder to dispute that EA has at least SOME hand in the tumble they're taking lately. Maybe not all of it, but a pretty big one.
What the frick is a label boss, and his job requirements, anyway? I mean, I do kinda trust that he's spewing the truth here, even if he doesn't have ultimate, all knowing, say, but honestly, unless we're hearing it from Riccitiello I really can kinda care less what this says on such matters. As far as I know (or care) this guy is middle management and has a comb-over.
Also, Bioware needs to get out from under EA's skirt and find a new publisher, cause its getting harder and harder to dispute that EA has at least SOME hand in the tumble they're taking lately. Maybe not all of it, but a pretty big one.
@BoomingEchoes
EA Labels are the guys who make EA games or something like that(just a 2 second google search), so HE is a bigshot, and a symptom of the cancerous tumor that has plagued EA. He is to be taken to his word, and everyone will play multiplayer, all the time. All dissenters are exterminated.
EA Labels are the guys who make EA games or something like that(just a 2 second google search), so HE is a bigshot, and a symptom of the cancerous tumor that has plagued EA. He is to be taken to his word, and everyone will play multiplayer, all the time. All dissenters are exterminated.
HA! They're going down fighting, I love it!
Their games keep failing, their share price keeps dropping, they keep pathologically churning out the same watered down shit and nobody's interested in buying them out. Ignorance (and a shit load of coke) is bliss I guess.
They're so fucking dead and I can't wait to piss on their grave.
Their games keep failing, their share price keeps dropping, they keep pathologically churning out the same watered down shit and nobody's interested in buying them out. Ignorance (and a shit load of coke) is bliss I guess.
They're so fucking dead and I can't wait to piss on their grave.
I am in no way a big EA dan but if the MP doesn't affect the SP experience, then what is the big deal here?
I play NHL for the SP above all else.
I played Dead Space 2 without even touching the MP and I loved it.
You guys are overreacting before knowing all the details.
I play NHL for the SP above all else.
I played Dead Space 2 without even touching the MP and I loved it.
You guys are overreacting before knowing all the details.
Why is it that all the Corporate business people think they know how to make great games based on graphs and pie charts?
Seriously, you should let you game developers worry about making great games. All that corporate interference has done in the last 10 years has made the most iconic game programmers leave their respective companies.
Seriously, you should let you game developers worry about making great games. All that corporate interference has done in the last 10 years has made the most iconic game programmers leave their respective companies.
Good, less IP's for EA to corrupt in their profit orientated, cheap, crappy, mass-produced yearly stream of uninspired and repackaged dross made for the vacant-eyed, eager masses of wallet waving casual console gamers.
Fuck single player games. I mean, how am I supposed to listen to the screeching of racist homophobic 13 year olds on xbox live otherwise?
I remember the days of the C64, loading up an EOA (what they were calledd back then) game and watching the old logo cycle through colors while the game loaded. I thought Trip Hawkins was a pompous asshole but his company made some great games. I played Mail Order Monsters for what seems like days at a time because it was an awesome game. I stuck with EA through the Commodore Amiga and Sega Genesis and Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox and beyond. This has been the most idiotic thing I have heard from this company since they said no games for Sega Dreamcast (which bit them in the ass anyway because it cause 2K to rise to power with the Sega Sports games).
I hope you die, EA. Yes, it'll be sad for all the employees who give a damn but you've become too bloated for your own good.
I hope you die, EA. Yes, it'll be sad for all the employees who give a damn but you've become too bloated for your own good.
I remember the days of the C64, loading up an EOA (what they were called back then) game and watching the old logo cycle through colors while the game loaded. I thought Trip Hawkins was a pompous asshole but his company made some great games. I played Mail Order Monsters for what seems like days at a time because it was an awesome game. I stuck with EA through the Commodore Amiga and Sega Genesis and Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox and beyond. This has been the most idiotic thing I have heard from this company since they said no games for Sega Dreamcast (which bit them in the ass anyway because it cause 2K to rise to power with the Sega Sports games).
I hope you die, EA. Yes, it'll be sad for all the employees who give a damn but you've become too bloated for your own good.
I hope you die, EA. Yes, it'll be sad for all the employees who give a damn but you've become too bloated for your own good.
@Coltrane
The problem is that launching games with that don't need Multi player (Dead Space, Bioshock) is that it can divert resources and staff from the Single Player to the Multi player. Also tacked on multiplayer modes caused the terrible idea that Online Passes are.
So in the end you end up with a crappier game than what could've been an enjoyable experience.
@Retrofaction
Games are apparently to expensive to make nowadays, according to developers. Perhaps not wasting too much money on GRAPHIX and planning better might be the solution but f that. Also investors don't want to lose one cent so they need to maximize TEH PROFITS!
The problem is that launching games with that don't need Multi player (Dead Space, Bioshock) is that it can divert resources and staff from the Single Player to the Multi player. Also tacked on multiplayer modes caused the terrible idea that Online Passes are.
So in the end you end up with a crappier game than what could've been an enjoyable experience.
@Retrofaction
Games are apparently to expensive to make nowadays, according to developers. Perhaps not wasting too much money on GRAPHIX and planning better might be the solution but f that. Also investors don't want to lose one cent so they need to maximize TEH PROFITS!
Ha! Because it's not like there's any singleplayer games which are successful nowdays right guys? *Looks at The Witcher 2, Alan Wake, Deus EX: HR) "Huh, coulda swore they weren't there before"
EA should allow the developers to create the videogame they want to make. Not force them to add multiplayer simply because EA thinks that's all a game can offer in terms of replay value.
Message to you EA: A GAME DOESN'T NEED MULTIPLAYER IN ORDER TO HAVE A LOT OF REPLAY VALUE
Message to you EA: A GAME DOESN'T NEED MULTIPLAYER IN ORDER TO HAVE A LOT OF REPLAY VALUE
At this point I think I'm done being shocked with every new EA quote that comes out, and just want to laugh my ass off at them. I don't think anything can top "Dead Space 3 needs at least 5 million in sales", and "we made it co-op cause they were too scary". I have a sinking feeling I'm going to eat those words however.
@EX275W Yeah. We live in a world where 800k sales makes a genre uncontemporary and 910k sales in TWO MONTHS is enough to dissolve a studio.
Apparently EA and 2K have the same mindset. Their games MUST have multiplayer for some insane reason even if it doesn't make sense and is awful. For example, Spec OPs: The Line. The creators did not want an MP and 2k farmed out a cheap MP to be tacked on just so they could check that item off the list to ensure that people who pick it up and see MP will still buy it...no matter if it's quality MP or not.
It's like people didn't know Baldur's Gate had a wonderful multiplayer feature. What's wrong with Dragon Age 3 being the spiritual successor of the very thing its always claimed to be a spiritual successor of?
@Amerika_KC
Sad thing is a lot of comments on metacritic reveal they did in fact buy it for the multiplayer.
Sad thing is a lot of comments on metacritic reveal they did in fact buy it for the multiplayer.
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These guys are really worst.
There's no way they don't know how much the community hates them yet they just keep doing everything in their awful way.
FUCK YOU, EA.
Sincerely, a customer who will never buy your products ever again!
There's no way they don't know how much the community hates them yet they just keep doing everything in their awful way.
FUCK YOU, EA.
Sincerely, a customer who will never buy your products ever again!
And yet, the best games that EA has published this generation (Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Mirror's Edge, etc.) have been exclusively single player games.
EA games I've bought this gen that did have a multiplayer component (Brütal Legend, Mass Effect 3, etc.) I have never touched the multiplayer component. I bought those games for the single player campaign.
EA games I've bought this gen that did have a multiplayer component (Brütal Legend, Mass Effect 3, etc.) I have never touched the multiplayer component. I bought those games for the single player campaign.
Normally, i'd say that this idiot just cost EA a few points of 'gamer goodwill', but i'd be lying if I said they had any to begin with, after the bullshit that they've pulled over the last couple years.
dont have a problem with this as i actualy have a tonn of friends online to play with so more power to us
I don't play games for it's multiplayer. In fact, it's rare to even find a good one. The last game I played where the multiplayer was actually worth it was Halo: Reach.
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