Can you imagine a world *without* EA?

[ElPatron]

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Skate had totally different controls, physics and gameplay. It's not FIFA vs PES. It's Call of Duty vs ARMA. If it's worse or better then it's your own subjective opinion.

I don't even like Skate.

 

[spartandude]

This is more or less the scene that runs through my head every time the topic of bloated game publishing conglomerates comes up.

And when it does, there's inevitably *somebody* who cries:

"What!? How on Earth would we get on without overstuffed companies trying to stereotype an entire generation of people into a neat little 'demographic' and sell them homogenized products!?"

(My bias is showing, but W.E.)

Point is, I don't see the need for these kind of companies anymore. At all. I could be missing something entirely- but there it is.

fucking ninjas

 

[josemlopes]

is it me

or are people more negativly biased against EA/Bioware than they are gainst Activision/Blizard..Im not seeing so many Diablo 3 hate threads

We had that a while ago with the MW2 crap, most were against Activision. Most people i believed liked EA then, but this Activision no longer does anything we've turned attention to EA. Still, Bobby Kotick is still hated here.

As for EA, we could do without them, but gaming today as we know it might be a whole lot different, either better or worse depending on how you see it.

I was amazed back then on how could people find EA good. Activision sucked (and still does) but EA always sucked too. Thats the problem with most publishers, they dont care about the games, they only care about profits. They dont even invest on smaller projects, and if they do invest on one they dont support it enough causing the game to have lackluster sales and then they blame the developers and send them off to unemployement.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

EA, Activision and Ubisoft are all in the same boat. Corporate arses who make games for shareholders, not gamers. Look at what EA turned ME3 into...all these Multiplayer map-packs...does that sound familiar?? Microsoft and Sony are partly to blame as well for leaving it 3 years after we should have had a new console generation. Modern (hit) games are designed for outdated 2004 hardware with pathetic memory and poor graphics by today's standards.

Games are now being made like pop music and hollywood films...to appeal to the broadest possible audience. Thus lowest barrier to entry (the console), lowest hardware requirements (the console), widest audience base (the console), cross-platform development and generic gameplay with little to differentiate it from the competition. Games, particularly multiplayer shooters used to stick around for years, now we are expected to throw them away after a year.

I have no issue with games becoming more popular, and it's undeniable that CoD making more money than any other entertainment product is "an achievement" of a sort, it's just that it's the wrong kind of achievement. The shareholders loved it, but these games have ruined gaming. I would love the corporations to just back the f**k off and let the developers create games, then they publish them and reap the rewards of the investment. Better games for us, just as much money for them, win-win.

 

[3asytarg3t]

One can dream can't they? A world w/o publishers where the people with the talent actually making the product profit completely from their labors.

And the idea is absurd on its face to even suggest that borrowing a dead funding model from the entertainment industry was a smart play.

 

[3asytarg3t]

I forgot to add is there any game out there that you actually do like? All I ever see from you is this game sucks and that game is shit wah wah wah.

Oh yeah, I forgot to anwser this one. Loads.

Every Total War (10)
All Deus Ex games (9)
COD up until MW3 (7)
Battlefield up until 3 (6)
Tribes (6)
Both The Witcher games (10)
All TES games (9)
Nehrim (10)
Halo up until Wars (6)
Titan Quest obviously (9)
All Diablo games (9)
Fable 1+2 (9)
DOTA + DOTA 2 (7)
GTA games... Scratch that actually, all Rockstar games (9)
All Serious Sam games (6)
All Half Life games (10)
All Rainbow Six games (7)
Advanced Warfigher (come at me) (6)
Painkiller (5)
Black & White 1&2 (7)
STALKER (6)
Metro 2033 (9)
Gothic up until 3... Kinda (5)

And Sacred. So loads. Those are just a few of my favorite games. If you think I don't like any you ain't reading my posts properly. (Number at the end of each title is how much I like the games personally, not an objective score.)

None of which required a publisher model to fund their development, so throwing up a laundry list of games is pointless.

 

[3asytarg3t]

And for my money, it's best if I just ignore you since the title of the thread pretty much makes my comments self explanatory, except perhaps for you.