EA Appreciation Thread

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

They were alright in the past. Especially since they saved Westwood and Maxis by buying them, which means no Sim City 3000, no SimCity 4, no Sims 1 or 2, no Spore, no Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun, and no Red Alert 2 without EA buying them up. In fact, Maxis had the original engine for SimCity 3000 be fully 3D, but it was terrible. EA had them make a better, isometric engine, but otherwise left them alone.

Game turned out awesome.

In fact, EA really only started going from "alright" to "Satan's left bollock" when Riccitiello took over.

 

[the doom cannon]

EA funds DICE for the Battlefield series
I'm gonna get a lot of heat for liking the bf series even tho it's awesome....
*insert flame shield here*

 

[Scrustle]

Did they make Mirrors Edge or have any part in it? I think they did? If so, that. I like that game.

What probably happened was EA allowed DICE some free reign to experiment with one game, which turned out to be Mirror's Edge. But after that EA decided they were going to put as much energy as they could in to taking down CoD with Battlefield, which means DICE now have to focus on that, and Mirror's Edge 2 is likely to never happen. Three years ago a small story popped up that a very very small team in DICE were starting very early stages of work on Mirror's Edge 2, but it's been silent since then apart from a random announcement that it'll be using the Frostbite 2 engine, although that was in the time when EA were trying to promote the tits off the engine, so it could have just been marketing. Although this image [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Frostbite2-realtime-radiosity.jpg] popped up at some point, which is apparently a Frostbite 2 screenshot. Looks like Mirror's Edge to me, but it could be anything.

OT: I'm actually surprised this thread has gotten to three pages without it turning in to the complete opposite of what it was originally intended to be, although plenty of people have posted sentiments similar to what I would say.

EA has published some good games, but any large publisher could have done that. It's the studios that deserve praise for the games we get, not EA. They are the ones who work to create them. They are the creative minds. EA are just the money and promotion.

I wouldn't thank EA for existing either. I resent their existence. Actually, that's a bit far. I resent their business practices and attitude. I am ambivalent towards their existence.