EA Accused of Gaming Battlefield 3 Review Scores

[Cronq]

Didn't Activision fly reviewers out to California, put them up in a resort, whine and dine them, give them all a fancy combat helmet with their gamer tag engraved in it, and free hookers for reviewers of MW2?

EA is doing it wrong.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Well cant they just say "STFU everyone we surveyed is stilling getting a copy to review!"

Because then they just wanted to know.

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

Well, sorry folks, I stopped being interested in E.A. after I got bored with "The Last Gladiator" in 1987.

Spoiler: You are too young to know the last gladiator? Go check this video out

Well in any case, I'm not really suprised. It's E.A. what did you expect? Fair play? Good games? Come on...

 

[dmase]

I feel like this should have been one of those things to gauge the previous scores in the two franchises vs. the current one they are reviewing as a personal improvement thing. Of course EA's response doesn't seem to reflect that.

They are getting to vicious in this BF vs COD battle, it's making them look dickish. I feel like there will be a release commercial where they dump on COD really hard.

 

[octafish]

Don't hope for the game to fail because of any idiocy on the publisher's part. You wanna know what happens when a game fails? The developer gets hurt. Publisher? not so much.

Sorry, that doesn't matter much to me, in the same way that, if I get beat up on the street by a guy, and his slave stands by and watches, I'd expect them both to go to jail.

There I fixed that for you.

 

[Awexsome]

I would think if a person hadn't reviewed either game they'd be in a poor position to form a professional opinion on a game like Battlefield 3. I wouldn't want someone reviewing a game if they hadn't reviewed popular FPS's before.

But I don't know what you're trying to say. I just said the only way I could think of a legit way this would be justifiable would be that.

I get what you're saying, but there's no need to try and justify something that is clearly underhanded for anything less than what it is. Besides the, "have you ever even reviewed a shooter game before" question every other part was attempts to find a favorable review.

Asking what people already think judging from the beta, asking for the scores they've given previous Battlefield and CoD games, asking what they're fans of... Only reason I could see this justified is through if I were a BF fanboy or CoD hater who already deluded myself into thinking that everyone's already biased against me.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Hey, after the shit they pulled with the origin service terms, this honestly comes as no surprise. Not to mention their constant insulting of call of duty, because trash talk makes you look real mature and cool in front of your fans, doesn't it?

Maybe I missed something, but what I've seen hardly constitutes "trash talking". More like gentle ribbing, at most.

That's kind of how rivalries work, dude.

 

[Frostbite3789]

I find it hilarious how EA and Dice are trying so, so hard to compete with CoD, going as far as insulting the franchise, yet IW and Sledgehammer just shrug it off and do not mention Battlefield at all. Oh, and remember when Robert Bowling (developer of MW3) said on reddit that both games (Battlefield 3 and MW3) are going to be great games? Now that's honor.

No. That's called marketing. And it worked.

 

[Frostbite3789]

I also recall a certain publisher giving journalists a paid for trip to a fancy hotel to review MW2, all locked up and not allowed to discuss the game with others... paid for, all expenses paid but had to do the review under strict supervision.

... remember that ?

Don't you know how gaming memory works? It's extremely selective and short term. Selective in that if it doesn't support your point, you don't remember it. Short term in that people will whine about things other companies have done in the past and it ended up turning out well.

But they'll be damned if that affects them!

 

[TWizzle09]

Doesn't really matter if they did it or not. Not like they are the only ones that do it if it is true. Just look at the last 2-3 CoD game reviews.. Its a joke to the actual gameplay. I see a lot of 9+ ratings for Black Ops, but for what? Lag? Disconnections? At least BF3 will most likely not be having those problems, because DICE gives it dedicated servers.

 

[TWizzle09]

Right now... i just want Battlefield to crash SO hard...
I just really don't agree with EA's way of going about things.
Competing and poking a bit of fun with COD?
Fine by me.

But when you begin to just piss people off in order to pursue some childish grudge-match?
Not cool.

Hopefully EA will screw the pooch so very hard on this one, that they might learn a lesson.
I'm just hoping to god it doesn't do well...
Would not be a good message to the industry.

Anyway, as for this particular incident?
Not suprising in the least, and just fuels more hate towards EA.

Please let it happen. I mean, I usually don't wish companies/people bad, but what EA and some others are doing just needs to be punished.
But to be honest, they won't fail. There is already enough hype to make this a huge success, because of those "blinded" fans that would even buy it if it would become the worst game ever made.
I hate to say, but they actually will get away with this s**t.
I don't care, because I won't buy it. The only problem I see is Origin. If they'll make every EA game Origin-exclusive, there might be a game that I really want Origin is an absolute NO-GO for me.

Like all the blind fans who bought Black Ops thinking it would be the best game ever? And Activision got over a billion $$$'s from all those blind people because they overhyped the hell out of it and game reviewers gave it high a** scores? Also, still to this day, Black Ops is still as laggy as ever. Yep, so what exactly is EA doing so bad? As I said in previous post, at least EA/DICE gives its game dedicated servers, even though their game didn't make them one billion $$$'s. But oh well.

I myself hope that Activision and CoD falls. That franchise has not been the same since CoD4:MW. How is it possible that a game made 3-4 series ago can have better online gameplay(no lag, good hit detection, etc) than games from the franchise made now? Only thing bad about CoD4 would be no host migration.

 

[Skops]

A publisher trying to manipulate review scores? NO WAI! What has this world come to?

 

[Anodos]

I can almost understand. One of the things i would think, being naive. "I would probably only want to send my detective horror game to the people who would like it.....definitely not going to send it to some Dude Bros, or something...."

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

In a sense, this isn't quite as despicable as it seems perhaps. One could easily imagine that they're less interested in finding friendly reviewers than they are interested in avoiding outright hostile reviewers who aren't going to give the game a fair chance (a real problem given that it's part of such a well-known franchise rivalry with stronly opinionated fans on both sides). And when choosing who to send preview copies to, this doesn't seem quite as reprehensible to me.

Though it is nice to see that they just decided not to do this.

(We now return to your regularly scheduled fan dumb/fan hate.)

 

[Robert Ewing]

Is this a hint of how little faith they have in it?

Without a doubt it's going to be an absolute sales giant, but how shallow is the game if EA are trying to prop it up with good reviews?

makes me very cautious...

 

[FoolKiller]

With the stuff they pull, I refuse to buy any of their games new anymore. If everyone equates me with a pirate for that then EA can avoid ever getting a cent from me. Honestly, though, they lost my faith years ago when instead of competing, they squash the competition by underhanded tactics (NFL and ESPN licenses, the latter of which they didn't use at all for years)