EA Manager Calls Black Ops Brand "Tired"

[Korten12]

Wait, what? When exactly did Activision cuss back at EA?
From what I've seen and heard, Activision was incredibly mature and EA was a spoiled child who thinks his toy is better than the other kids' toys.

Yeah... Last time I remember Activision was quite mature with Bobby Kotick not speaking. Their new speaker was quite mature but then EA just keep throwing shit.

I feel like Activision, for all the crap it does, at least doesn't try to hide it. EA is the villian who thinks they're good, when really they're making themselves out to be more bad then before.

 

[Woodsey]

Well at least this makes the 8-month endurance race that happens before and after a CoD release somewhat entertaining.

To the galleons!

(And I'd have thought Activision employing a convicted war criminal to promote the game would have been a more note-worthy cause for a ***** slap.)

 

[RJ 17]

I think Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Gearbox, and Valve should each send 4 or 5 of their executives into a back alley to have an Anchorman style brawl to determine who is the best newscast errr, developer once and for all!

"Brick...where'd you get a grenade?"
"I don't know."

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

EA if you are going to throw shit at another brand you could at least do it well and pick decent reasons.

Captcha: ill wind

 

[AwKwardly]

If only this were a school yard brawl. 'Cause that'd be mad.
Each year, after the mud-slinging reaches critical mass, just before release, someone throws an honest to god gauntlet and they get into it.

A big circle of suits forms up, two exec's (preferably marketing) just pound on each other till whatever this metaphor's equivalent of a teacher eventually arrives to break it up and secretly decides a winner.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

So, how long until Activision calls the same thing out with Madden?

I give it a month. ... And that's being generous.

 

[boag]

Pot calls Kettle Black, news at eleven followed by a special episode of Jersey shore.

 

[jFr[e]ak93]

Soooooo the (sub)franchise is tired after one game? Oh EA, your logic never ceases to amaze me.

I will agree CoD could freshen itself up a bit, but Black Ops? That's a fairly desperate shot.

Bring on Battlefield 4!

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

All these "modern warfare" based fps games suck. MW and the Black Ops games. Just find the guns, characters, settings and stories boring and uninteresting. Prefer their WW2 games, so much better. Make a WW2 game damn it.

 

[ssgt splatter]

How is the Black Ops brand tired? This is the second Black Ops game while WW2 has been done to death and Modern Warfare has 3 games.

I'm not angry, I just find it funny that someone in EA would call it "stale" already.
...
...
Oh, wait. It's EA, that's normal.

 

[ssgt splatter]

So on the massive turd clogging the bowels of gaming, a peanut is calling a piece of corn shitty. Nice

Oh man. That is B-E-A-UTIFUL. XD

 

[IWCAS]

EA makes me LOOOOL. They never fail. "Tired"? Really?
It's already been addresed many times, but ummmm... Sports games are a joke. Battlefeild doesn't really change. In fact, Medal of Honor's multiplay was basically Battlefeild as well.

Lol. Shut the fuck up EA.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I think I'll grab toasted pita triangles. Slightly more healthy than popcorn. Then I'll waste that one effort by drinking an effin' pool of Diet Pepsi.

Oh, the ridiculously fun antics of Big Business. How I yearn for the distant future where both the CoD and Battlefield franchises will have withered away into so much dust... Not that it has any chance of happening, my guess is EA is going to keep milking The Sims and its sports licenses until sports themselves are nothing but a distant memory.

Year 2XXX: EA Releases Wheelchair Racing 15, is nothing more than a roster update for Wheelchair Racing 14.

Six months later: Activision Releases Call of Duty: Postman Edition's much-vaunted Bitter Canadian Weather DLC. Players now get to slog through brown muck or trudge through cold-ass rain in the white-knuckled race to deliver eviction notices and bank account statements to idiots who haven't subscribed to online notifications.

 

[l3o2828]

Oh gods, not this shit again.

Someone needs to grab these two, bash their heads together and then force them to sit down for a nice tea party.

Agreed.
And while at it, force the entire company to produce an original new game and release it without crippling DRM.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Is this....People defending Activision? Or atleast calling out EA on some serious hypocritical bullshit? Well I never!

OT:
Really EA? Calling Black Ops repetitive? Sure enough the Call of Duty franchise is no stranger to doing the same shit over and over again but need I remind you of a little gremlin you keep in a cage surviving solely on fish-heads and a puddle of rain water that you call EA Sports?

Spoiler: Do these ring any bells?

You know, I'm not a fan of Call of Duty but to give credit where it's due; atleast that franchise makes a lot more significant changes to it's fucking box art then you do!

 

[nathan-dts]

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

With the exception that Battlefield isn't tired, given that it doesn't release every year.

 

[Zipa]

I like how EA (lol hypocrites) are calling out black ops as the tired one not modern warfare, there has only been one black ops game but 3 MW ones.

 

[Loonerinoes]

What these people fail to understand is that schoolyard brawls are awesome.

Awesome for forum trolls and all-round lulz. Absolute poison in the eyes for anyone wanting to have a decent discussion on the subject.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

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.

 

[Blade_125]

Well that is certainly the pot calling the kettle black. Even if the kettle actually is black.