EA: Dungeon Keeper Failed by "Innovating Too Much"

[Nowhere Man]

This was good for a real genuine laugh

We already know that EA is dishonest and insincere as hell to their customers. But how it it possible that they could be so dishonest and insincere to themselves?

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

Yeah... that's really, really not the reason why, Frank.

 

[El Luck]

...since when is ripping off Clash of Clans innovative? Seriously, since fucking when? I mean come the balls on. Ergh, EA do a better job getting these stupid cunts who come out and say shit like this silent, its doing you no bloody favours. /rant.

 

[CriticalMiss]

I think we should lobby for a new rule in the world that if you are going to call something 'innovative' you also have to say how it is innovative, because I really don't see how Dungeon Keeper was in any way innovative.

Hmm, lets see. Laughing gif...laughing gif... Ah, here's one.

RIP Flashheart.

 

[Queen Michael]

Does anyone have the "you keep using that word" image macro ready? because this would be the perfect time to use it.

Your wish is my strong recommendation.

 

[The Great JT]

*Read Read*

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, EA.

 

[K12]

There definitely needs to be an equivalent of Poe's Law for video game publisher executives.

For those who don't know Poe's law states that religious fundamentalists believe and say such stupid things that it is essentially impossible to be sure whether something is a parody or not.

Can we have an EA Exec law: EA Execs make such stupid comments that you cannot reliably seperate then from a parody of what an EA exec might say.

 

[demented]

You've got to hand it to EA. They take talking bullshit to a whole new level.

 

[Queen Michael]

You were just too innovative? Riiiiight...

Like a chef saying his food tastes too good.

Or an author saying her writing is too beautiful.

Or a comedian saying he's too funny.

Or Jesus saying he's delivering too much salvation.

 

[Covarr]

EA must really be trying to reclaim their status as "Worst Company in America".

P.S. Thanks

 

[Auberon]

I get the image they really are that delusional. All the more hilarity for us lowly peasants.

 

[Weresquirrel]

Does anyone have the "you keep using that word" image macro ready? because this would be the perfect time to use it.

Your wish is my strong recommendation.

You missed a golden opportunity to say "As you wish."

OT: Oh EA. You're so considerate. I spend too much money on games, and every word that comes from your office tightens my purse strings.

 

[epicdwarf]

Now is has me even more worried about Battlefront's future. If Dungeon Keeper: Cow Clicker Edition was "innovative" by EA's standards, just imagine how they are going to "innovate" their up and coming games.

 

[BrotherRool]

Why are they still talking? Anyone with half a brain should have decided to just shut up about Dungeon Keeper weeks ago. If they ask you about it in an interview then just give them the most boring wishy-washy answer possible. Worst comes to worst, be actively nonsensical. 'Due to flaws in the game design, this product didn't do well'

Lets see someone try to make a decent headline out of that. Don't go spouting out the most ridiculous click-baiting headline sound-bytes possible. It's like it's EA in the pocket of the gaming media this time round.

Geeze, can you be competent at your cynical cash-grabbing please?

 

[N3squ1ck]

Oh my God, they really think gamers are that stupid? Jesus Christ, Your shit was cought, you got called out on it. At least say sorry before you try it again. maybe he saw Jim's episode and they don't want to say sorry after that.

Also,

 

[drakonz]

*facepalm* do they even know what word innovate means?

 

[gigastar]

I never knew having to sit through a 24 hour lockout in order to do anything was considered innovative. Plainly we have been looking at this the wrong way the whole time.

Spoiler: What i actually think.

And the subject of next weeks Jimqusition is...

 

[Somebloke]

"I think we might have innovated too much or tried some different things that people just weren't ready for"

So... you're saying it's our fault, then? Just admit you're saying that!

No, no, he is admitting a fault of their own; They see now that they must double their efforts in rearing a generation with sufficiently lowered standards.

 

[otakon17]

HAHAHAHAHA.
No.
That is incorrect.

God I hate EA.


There fixed it for you, let me join in shall I?


On topic,REALLY EA?! Timers on TIMERS and forcing you to wait up to 24 hours to make one PORTION of progression to making a room is innovation? Yeah, maybe if your goal was to innovate the ways one can be separated from their money per chance. Goddammit EA, I WANT to get Dragon Age Inquisition, STOP DOING THIS SHIT.

 

[Dr.Awkward]

Innovation isn't innovation if there isn't any research to back it up that claim. All EA did was assume that Dungeon Keeper as a F2P mobile title would work with the established fans.

and thanks to that lack of research, it didn't succeed. To add insult to injury, the result was very, very avoidable simply by asking and polling those fans, but not through control groups. And just how is it "innovation" if all EA did was attach a poorly-thought, overused, even outdated payment system to a game whose mechanics date back to the late 90s, and even earlier if you consider certain individual gameplay mechanics?

As a result, EA lost a game AND a studio because they skipped over a critical part of series pre-development - Researching fanbase response and impressions of last titles, their market habits, for the sake of getting investors to understand what can and cannot be done, what is the line for the fans. And now EA got that information the hard way, and here they are denying that information is the case.