EA Manager Calls Black Ops Brand "Tired"

[Spitfire]

This just in: "Activision Calls Battlefield Brand Tired"

Personally, I think that EA and Activision should just cut the crap and start addressing 'yo momma' jokes at each other.

 

[zachusaman]

please Activision PLEASE TAKE A FEW POT SHOTS AT ORIGIN (with a freaking rocket launcher)
PLEASE

 

[jpoon]

Irony, thy name is EA...

 

[AdamRBi]

Guys, it's all marketing. They'll tussle, we'll laugh, and then they'll announce that each team will answer the call of duty and settle this on the battlefield by releasing a joint FPS venture pitting both games virtually against each other by allowing Battlefielders to play online against Modern Warfarers.

EA/Activision's new game: "Call of Battle: Modern Warfielders."

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

Newsflash just in the CoD franchise is tired!

 

[Therumancer]

And the arrogant, childish bastards of the year award goes to..!

Careful about awarding that one too early, it's an election year. Obama and Romney have yet to really go at it yet.

 

[Slayer_2]

Fight! Fight! Fight!

*Grabs popcorn*

Also, as much as it pains me, I agree with EA, Black Ops was the worst CoD ever, quite the achievement.

 

[angry_flashlight]

Ugh. More of this BS? Why don't both these companies enter the ring and actually fight it out, just to get it out of their system? At least that might be more entertaining than listening to these jerkoffs throw petty (and lame) insults at each other (or mostly EA doing the throwing).

CAPCHAS: Save Yourself. <-- I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[ElPatron]

I dont think EA can say much about CoD considering battlefield is the same thing every time as well.

This just in: "Activision Calls Battlefield Brand Tired"

Personally, I think that EA and Activision should just cut the crap and start addressing 'yo momma' jokes at each other.

Why is everyone bashing on Battlefield, considering that we were promised a true sequel to BF2 a few years ago by DICE themselves and they disgraced the franchise by changing too much!

Compare:
BF2
BF2124 (say what you want, it's totally different in terms of objectives and rules)
BF:BC
BF:BC2
BF3

The only two that are comparable are BC and BC2. The rest suffered a lot more changes from one to another.

What a hypocrite. Activision isn't even all that bad anymore. They found their gold mine and they're sticking to it without ruining everything they touch. EA on the other hand isn't happy until they ruin everything in a 1000 mile radius.

Activision ruined the perfectly good franchise that was Call of Duty.

And let's not forget that they had some bullshit deals to force a DJ Hero to halt development, and tried to prevent EA from publishing Brutal Legend.

They are as evil as EA.

 

[Antari]

Some argue that two of the industry's most notable publishers going at each other in the PR equivalent of a schoolyard brawl sets a poor example to other publishers, embarasses the industry as a whole and encourages the annoying "Us Vs. Them" argumentative nonsense that makes gaming forums unbearable. What these people fail to understand is that schoolyard brawls are awesome.

Ya, they can be, but I'm waiting for the school yard brawl between EA and Activision where one of them doesn't get back up.

 

[Superior Mind]

... EA and Activision need to shut the fuck up, about everything, forever.

All that needed to be said.

 

[Kermi]

Yawn. Another year of Activision releasing a game in a popular franchise and EA making fun of them while they do exactly the same thing, but less popular. 2010 called, etc.

 

[Emiscary]

"Now if I were the unpleasant, sarcastic kind of journalist, I would now point out that someone working for Electronic Arts, a company which invented, refined and perfected the art of milking franchises into horrifying dried-out husks, criticising another company for doing exactly that is akin to Jeffery Dahmer calling someone out on their poor hospitality. A bit cheeky, if you catch my drift."

This, in spades. I have a dream in which the management of both companies are locked into a room with 1 knife and no food for 3 months. It doesn't always play out the same way, but I always wake up smiling

 

[Awexsome]

Lol did anyone expect anything less? EA based an entire marketing campaign to the CoD hater base back when BF3 was being released when it was going up against MW3.

 

[marioandsonic]

When your company produces a new Madden every year, I don't think you have any right to speak about "tired" brands.

 

[Erttheking]

You know, Activision may churn out the same cookie cutter games (kinda like you do EA), but at least they never destroyed an already existing franchise. They're harmless. In other words, pot call kettle black much?

 

[Zetatrain]

Activision's rebuttal

"Hello pot my name is Kettle and you are black".

Also, how is the Black Ops brand old considering there's only one BLOPS. Is BLOPS even considered a brand name? If he said COD is getting old then that would make more sense.

 

[Scorpid]

I think both EA's CoD rip offs of Medal of Honor and Battlefield speak otherwise to EA's thoughts on the matter (at least from a money making perspective). Personally CoD MoH and Battlefield, I consider blights on Gaming community with their bloated budgets, one note themes (that they all share together, while mocking the other for it) and desperate wish to be movies and not games, makes them wastes of time. Infinity Ward/Activision should just get Michael Bay to turn his military wanking on to their franchises so that we can just get all that nasty gameplay and coherent story telling buisness out of the way that they're so desperate to avoid.

I think personally gaming will look on this era and genre as the same way movie critics look back on blacksploitation or cheap skin flicks of the 50's-70's. An ugly underbelly best left untouched by anyone that takes game development at all seriously. SO EA Activision I think you're both tired and should take the year off, or better yet for everyone, the decade.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Glass houses, you motherfucking parasites.

Captcha: fill the tank

 

[Soviet Steve]

Can someone explain to me the difference between the two series? As I understand it they're both identical doom clones with all monsters replaced with Latinos, Russians and Arabs.