EA Aims to "Broaden" Dead Space Audience

[5ilver]

Buy out the opposition, force them to make stupid decisions, axe them when they fail to meet ridiculous sales figures. It's how the powerful stay in power.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

In other words, they'll be taking the dead space out of dead space. Great idea. -_-

Five million? Why? Lower your freaking costs.

Butbutbutbut nobody will buy a game that doesn't have bazillion dollar graphix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 What's wrong with you?!?!?!?!?!

But no, you're 100% right. If they spend so much money that they need to sell 500 million units to make a profit, then they really need to re-evaluate what they're pumping billions into...

 

[TheAmazingHobo]

Well, assuming that the publisher only makes 25 dollars per title sold... and that means on 5 million copies they have 125 million dollars per game...I too want to know that the fuck they are putting all that money into, cause it aint salaries for the devs...

Pony rides, obviously.
Or more lilkely: marketing.

Or most likely: He just pulled that number out of his butt and the actual number needed for Dead Space 3 (based on the budget of DS2 + a conservative estimate as to their increase in budget) to break even is around 2 - 2.5 million.

 

[blackrave]

And it surprises people how?
Ultima, Dungeon Keeper, Command&Conquer, Mass Effect
And those are only IPs I personally care for (from those I can remember from the top of my head)
How much more IPs they butchered over years, how much companies went along?
Dead Space 3 will suck?
No shit, Dead Space 2 already started to suck.

Dead Space was good.
Dead Space 2 wasn't bad.
See this drop in quality?
Dead Space 3 will be bad (or even worse).

So don't act so surprised people, this is "business as usual" for EA.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Laughing at those who got burned by Mass Effect 3 more than made up for it.

....thats kind of mean spirited don't you think? I don't regret buying ME3 even if I did get burned by the ending

this doesnt sound too good..but then again just because they are going to add a few changed to Dead Space 3 doesnt automatically mean "GENERIC COVER BASED SHOOTER"

Less mean spirited more "Didn't you see the pattern? Didn't Dragon Age 2 raise warning bells? Didn't EA's money gouging DLC practices stop you? Didn't the Jersey Shore in SPACE! meme make you wonder?"

As for you second point, Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

 

[Ix Rebound]

great, now we have to order ANOTHER game franchise coffin.

 

[Vault101]

Less mean spirited more "Didn't you see the pattern? Didn't Dragon Age 2 raise warning bells? Didn't EA's money gouging DLC practices stop you? Didn't the Jersey Shore in SPACE! meme make you wonder?"

As for you second point, Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

HAHAHA SCREW YOU FOR NOT BEING LIKE ME!!!

that's kind of the message I'm getting, weather you like ME3 or not (beside the point)

1. Dragon age 2 was done by a different team on a tighter time limit...

2. Mass Effect is one of my favourite series ever....I know what EA can be like, I accept that and buy the game because why the fuck wouldn't I? even if it was DA2 all over again...I'd buy it anyway to see for myself..no way am I just going to give it all up because of people complaining on the internet

like all those people buying Diablo may not like the always online thing..but they KNOW what they are getting into, and they like Diablo 3 enough to put up with it 9and maby eeven had some fun with the game)...the "always online" hassle was enough to put me off..but is it really right of me to insult them because we have different principles in regard to that kind of thing?

and as Ive said before, I thought ME3 was amazing until the ending...and how much the ending hurts its relative to how much emotional investment the player has in it...

which kind of has me...not sure in regards to Bioware from now on....since this isn't really a DA2 situation...its kind of differnet

I don't know how much of a factor EA was in the ending, but yeah, mabye htye are grindign Bioware into the ground....

but then again if on the off chance ([i/]the off chance[/i]) Bioware's next game was..you know [i/]good[/i] then I'd probably get it..because I enjoy their games

so yeah, I'll say I'm a corporate fanboy sheep willing to eat up shit...just to save you the trouble

 

[Vault101]

And it surprises people how?
Ultima, Dungeon Keeper, Command&Conquer, Mass Effect
And those are only IPs I personally care for (from those I can remember from the top of my head)
How much more IPs they butchered over years, how much companies went along?
Dead Space 3 will suck?
No shit, Dead Space 2 already started to suck.
.

actually I think Dead Space 2 was better in alot of ways

 

[xptn40S]

Y'know, I'm getting a feeling in my gut that when the game DOESN'T sell at least 5 million units (because come on EA, that's just wishful thinking!) they will blame it on piracy and/or used games sales.

 

[Weaver]

Maybe they should reduce marketing costs and cut pay to middle and upper management.

 

[FantomOmega]

Five million?

Five million? FIVE MILLION!??!?!?!

...What? Where the fuck is all this money going? How do you even spend 5 million on a game that has all the basics already set up, thanks to previous entries in the series? (By that I mean the engine, style, gameplay feel, whatever.) I realize game development costs a lot but it's not like they're building a completely new engine and rolling 5 Elder Scrolls games worth of content into one game.

Of course, I already know the answer to my question; that imaginary money (because DS3 will NOT sell 5 million new copies in the first year, I reckon) is going to go toward advertising. Ugh.

So technically they're saying "buy this game or we'll axe the franchise" cause we need 4x profit cause 2x profit is for losers? The fact that there IS a Profit should be good news!

This practically REEKS of Investor relations/expectations nonsense and the "game creation" aspect is just a automatic process to EA to get more money, game developer's hard work and dedication be damned

EA forced the developers to take the easy (cheaper) route and just make it a shooter than to risk more money perfecting or creating new uncertain ideas that MAY improve the game and the Horror genre for the better

Probably did this to compete with Resident evil 6 I suppose. Is Lost Planet even relevant anymore I haven heard much about them since the disappointment that was LP2?

 

[Acton Hank]

5 million copies just to keep a frenchise going?
If that's truly your situation then I'm astounded you haven't gone bankrupt yet.

It's probably not going to sell that much considering how the first 2 sold and how completely idiotic the fans are, since they already decided to hate it from 5 minutes of gameplay.

Guys, I know EA killed your family and raped your dog, but could you at least pretend to act like adults?

 

[SweetWarmIce]

Five million WTF? Is that just greed or are they pouring an ungodly amount of money into it's development.

 

[Kargathia]

Eh, that whole "5 million units shipped at least" is a good thing if the talk about "broadening appeal" is starting already.

Face it: if this jargon is being used already, then you won't even want a fourth game.

 

[bat32391]

Crap. Ignore this.

 

[bat32391]

If there's one thing you can say about EA, it's that they never stop trying, even if it doesn't work.

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Please tell me this is fake.



Also, captcha is "time lord" Ha!

Nope! This crap is real.

You cannot be serious. That is hilarious. At one time I would have said they were doing that just to rile people up, but nowadays, I'm left wondering if they are just that stupid that EA did not see a glaring problem with this ad.

It really wouldn't surprise me.