Recent content by Sargonas42

Indeed... I mean in all honesty, I worked at EA for 6 years, at the corporate studio and interfaced with groups all over the company.... and even *I* had no idea that studio even existed. I can honestly see WHY it was closed and can't see why it would be a bad idea to shut em down. Obviously...

But Steam has similarish online requirements, and long ago destroyed the concept of physical media on the PC platform. Why should consoles ignore the same future progress that came to PC years ago? I'm not entirely sure we really have that choice any more. More and more publishers consider...

You know, I've about had it with the hypocrisy of the vocal minority of gamers. I'm well aware it's a running joke of sorts, and one of the fundamentals of the internet (much like cat pictures) but it's still bullshit and it needs to stop. Three months ago Microsoft tried to revolutionize the...

That's because he doesn't have shareholders. That's the luxury of being an indie or small-venture studio that big publishers simply don't have. :/

I got it from listening to his quarterly speeches to the company, and from actually chatting with the guy in line to get Coffee on more than one occasion about the current weeks new release. When the guy really geeks out about a new game that came out the day before (and not even an EA one at...

The irony of this article is that J.R. DOES get games. He DOES stay up late at night playing Battlefield and Assassins Creed. He DOES understand what gaming is all about, and his "money making background" aside, before he was CEO he was also COO/President of EA for nearly a decade. He gets it...

I think having Pyro/Demoman in one thing is going to really skew the vote, to be honest.

Matt is growing on me, but even though he has had as much screen time now as David did, it's still not quite there. The new show is just... I don't know.. not the same. Before Matt there was an underlying story arc, with lots of stand alone episodes, and things just kinda flowed nicely. The...

I should clarify, I *DO* know of the arrangement between the two. (My apologies, I spend so much time being flamed by all sides for being ex-EA and sometimes supporting them, that I forget not *EVERYONE* knows my background.) The easiest way to explain it is, Bioware's license to do Star Wars...

Either X-wing, TIE Fighter, or X-wing vs. TIE Fighter could release at just about any price point under 150 as a reboot and I would pay without (much) hesitation.

They have my full and undivided attention. Bastion was amazing, so good I even bought the bloody sound track!

Actually I already covered that above and explained how the contracts work. Also for what it's worth ThriKreen is ex Bioware and is also a relative reliable source of info on that topic. The long and the short is, Lucas Arts (ie Disney now) has final say in anything Star Wars. EA can't lift...

While Bioware created KOTOR, it was in partnership with Lucas Arts at a time when "heavy hitter" games were not their strong suit. They brought in Bioware to do it right for them, but while Bioware created it, Lucas owns it. Since that time, Lucas Arts is now part of Disney which is ramping up a...

Game Informer has one role, and one role only. Push pre-orders. The magazine has a "captive audience". They don't have to worry about selling subscriptions (the Gamestop Game Advisors do that for them). They don't have to worry about loosing subscribers either really. (you are locked in once...

There is something I want to add to all this. The internet has a short memory it seems, as JR has done a lot of things for EA that the public should love but seems to forget. Allow me to copy a very well written post from elsewhere: Now, it's debatable that last line. I think along the...