EA: Dungeon Keeper Failed by "Innovating Too Much"

[-Dragmire-]

Ok....

... You know EA, if you would stop talking, people would still hate you but at least you wouldn't be giving everyone more ammo.

 

[Saulkar]

E.A. is not this stupid, there is some calculated method to the madness. They are distracting us from something bigger, something heinous, insidious, foul, smelly. What are they planning?!

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Is there some kind of inside competition between Ubisoft and EA this year to see who can be the biggest dipstick? Well if anything, I don't expect this guy to keep his job, but he didn't say it over twitter though, damn.

2014: The PR Pandemic. Claimed the lives of thousands, as they laughed themselves breathless fathoming they could do better jobs than people that are actually paid to do PR.

Ultimately though this is the game idea that made EA suits weak at the knees, the perfect whale bait, they were gonna be rich, RICH I tell ya! If this is the 'innovation' they want for all games, consider me along for that EA boycott bandwagon.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Yeah...innovated too much. *That's* the reason for Dungeon Keeper being dross. It wasn't a farcical, pathetic, anti-consumer product with restrictions at every turn, which alienated any lingering fans of the franchise and which stomped the brand's name and developer's reputation into the dirt. No, it was too innovative...

The tragedy is that it's fools like this that are leading the game industry. The blind leading the blind. The question a game publisher should be asking, "Is it a fun game?" has instead been replaced with "How has it been monetised?".

 

[KaZuYa]

Are Ubisoft and EA just have a huge who can face palm fail the hardest fight?

I mean really EA? Really?

 

[SilverLion]

Oh EA, of course you can sustain the dungeon Keeper model for a long time. Doesn't mean you should.
The only reason Dungeon Keeper still makes money (and that is ALL EA cares about) is because its cash grabs are so shameless and frequent that there is no way it COULDN'T make money. I will admit, I find what EA is doing kind of genius, but it's not genius in the same way as Nikola Tesla, it's genius in the same way that cutting a dog open while its still alive to find out how the respiratory system works. It's smart, and gets results but it's highly amoral and only gets results because with the scenario you're in the only thing that can happen IS results, regardless of how undesirable they are.
EA, I would actually respect you more if you just flat out said "We don't give a fuck about what you think, you're stupid cattle who buy our games and that keeps us afloat. So thank you, you dumb shits!" because then at least they would be honest.
This is why retro gaming is becoming popular again, because back then they didn't abuse you NEARLY as much. I think its fair to say that when an entertainment medium first starts out and only has niche appeal then they HAVE to have high quality so that they can be noticed. If the gaming industry was like it is today in 1984 then gaming would still be restricted to only nerds that can speak Klingon better than an actual fuckin' Klingon and can recite pi to 1000 places. I hope the industry has a crash and becomes discredited just so that we can go back to making good games in order to make gaming something WORTHWHILE.
I'd say TL,DR but only illiterate hicks can't read. And you know what?
Maybe that's what EA wants.

 

[snowfi6916]

So EA apologizes for the game where you basically just pay them money as the only game mechanic, and then has the balls to come out and say it's innovative and that we weren't ready?

Yeah EA, I wasn't ready to be fucked in the ass for money every time I play a game. And if you think that is going to change any time soon, think again.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Geeze, I didn't realize EA was that disappointed by not three-peating the Golden Poo award. Looks like they're more than ready to try for their golden poo this year.

Anyway, I thought the problem with Dungeon Keeper Mobile was that it wasn't an actual game.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

At this point, it's likely best if EA just stops talking about Dungeon Keeper all together and moves on.

I think it'd be best if EA just stops talking PERIOD.

 

[weirdee]

well, i guess when you have zero dignity left, might as well go all the way

 

[Colt47]

It's like you know where the article is going to go, but you just have to click and read it anyway. One page of reading and 95 posts later, and I can say I was happily right.

 

[Wolle]

Lest anybody forgets, Frank Gibeau is also the man who claimed that Simcity is an MMO. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122939-EA-Exec-Claims-DRM-Is-a-Failed-Dead-End-Strategy

 

[Atmos Duality]

At this point, it's likely best if EA just stops talking about Dungeon Keeper all together and moves on.

I think it'd be best if EA just stops talking PERIOD.

Business talk aside, sometimes, I like to think they say such monumentally stupid things on purpose in lieu of silence because something compels them.

Like the last tiny shrivel of humanity they have left has just enough pull to make them open their mouth and say ANYTHING, no matter how arrogant or stupid, just to let the rest of humanity know what goes on inside the soulless hollow shell it's trapped in.

Action through desperation.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Well good thing I found the perfect .gif today to post as a responce.

EA, never stop being so hilariously bad even if it's just for consumers enjoyment though I'm happy that I boycot these guys.

 

[Signa]

Is there anyone, anywhere, who believes this one bit? Anyone at all?

And just when will we be "ready" to be nickel and dimed to death?

I do, and it's just as you said. EA is trying to shape consumers to be barfing wallets, and we just aren't ready for that yet. What it innovated was the ways a game can monetize its customers, and in that respect, it was too innovative.

I shudder to think that they might be right in thinking that way, because people are buying their shit, or they would have been bankrupt years ago.

 

[Oly J]

I cannot believe nobody has used this yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgfiSzCy1o (embed codes don't seem to work for me, maybe I'm doing it wrong)


both are applicable, seriously the only way this makes sense is if EA is taking "no publicity is bad publicity" to it's logical conclusion, either that or Frank Gibeau is really sick of his job but has an aversion to quitting

 

[SilverUchiha]

I love EA. They're always inventing new meanings for things we never considered before. DRM? No! It's an MMO! Too many microtransactions preventing you from playing the game? No! That's just INNOVATION that you can't handle! Do you even innovation, bro?

Seriously, can someone go over to EA, head into the PR department office, find the guy in charge and then slam his head through a fucking mahogany desk until it knocks sense into them or they die? And then cue up Ubisoft for the next time they stick a foot in their mouth too.

 

[RealRT]

You know what, EA? Carry on with all that talk. I want to see how deep you can dig yourselves.

 

[Barbas]

Everyone prepare your laughing gifs. I'll kick us off.(...)

Nobody tells me what to do! Nobody! Hahahahahaha!


OT: This sort of shit is exactly why EA are so shit.

Heh, really? I've said it before and I'll say it again, the games industry really needs to work on their PR tactics, I swear every week we hear a few of the usual suspects running off their mouth when it would have been more advantageous just to keep quiet and hope people start to forget. You don't see many other industries running into this problem, I guess the video game industry still need time to mature. Anyhow, I couldn't find a decent laughing gif so I'll let Jim doing the talking for me:

Spoiler

At least one person in that organization needs to have their crack pipe taken away from them, or they'll never learn. Ah...today was a good day.

 

[Rad Party God]

Nope, your game wasn't innovative at all. The original DK?, that's a damn fine game (no nostalgia glasses for it, got it for free in GOG, immediatly purchased DK2 afterwards).

This mobile... thing?.