EA Owes Its Success To Its Failures
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EA owes its success to its failure, blimey, that's going to be taken out of context a lot in the future.
That said i cant imagine Activision, THQ or Ubisoft putting up with a RTS series for 13 years. Since EA has at least noted that Generals 2 isnt going to be a repeat of Tiberian Twilight, i retain a seed of hope, in chronic stasis, in the deepest and coldest reaches of my inner cynic.Sylveria said:
Though they wont admit it yet, Tiberian Twilight was another turning point for them. Because it taught them that yearly releases will just not work for some genres of game.
Very true I believe their initial mission statement was something like thisnikki191 said:
"We are an association of electronic artists who share a common goal. We want to fulfill the potential of personal computing."
I dont know what it is now probably something like
"We are an association of businessmen who share a common goal. We want low risk products that provide immediate money, screw potential we need guaranteed money"
theres probably definitely a company song that the execs sing about taking over companies bleeding them dry of creativity and stealing everything of worth until they cease to exist except as an EA company number while all the time the EA glob grows bigger each verse ends with an evil laugh and there is one verse for every studio they have taken over. I have no doubt Blizzard/Activision have one as well.
Im not sure exactly what they were saying but it sounds like we learn from our mistakes which everybody does and I mean everybody even animals do. Still I hope they make bigger mistakes and I mean real big irrecoverable financial mistakes and soon.
Anyway Im not to fond of EA overall tbh but they may make a good case study for seeing how money can corrupt any ideal.
Wait. Of they worked with 3DO, that means they have access to Battletanx
One can hope they remake it....
One can hope they remake it....
Such a sad part of gaming history, I'll probably never see another Dungeon Keeper game again.Raiyan 1.0 said:
EA Owes it's successes to it's failures? No, it owes it's success to the series of studio's it bought up, exploited, broke up and then ran into the ground like Westwood. It owe's it's successes to the blood and toil of exploited developers it used up like toilet paper then flushed away, keeping their intellectual property and hard work.
Ah the megadrive era, when I was genuinely protective of the plucky EA and their idealism....
EA what happened to you man? You used to be cool, before you became stupidly succesful.
As others note, it's curious how EA made these mistakes and survived to learn from them, yet don't offer the same courtesy to the developpers they buy up...
EA what happened to you man? You used to be cool, before you became stupidly succesful.
As others note, it's curious how EA made these mistakes and survived to learn from them, yet don't offer the same courtesy to the developpers they buy up...
Y'know what I get from this? "Hey guise, remember when we were a small company!? LOL we so humble!"
Except the fact that the employees can simply be shifted to other areas, a boon of being owned by a conglomerate that people don't really talk about. Some employees were absorbed by EA proper and are now working on a game called Mercs, Inc, which is what the studio was working on when it closed. Others were folded into EA Los Angeles and are developing another game under Visceral. EA doesn't necessarily kill all projects when they shut a studio down, and they certainly don't just dump employees into the streets. Although I'll never be happy until I get a new battlefront game.Thoric485 said:
The snarky question that comes to mind is, "So, what are the current generation of failures preparing them for?"
It's easy to hate on EA. They've made some very good games, even recently. But they've also made some very bad ones, their market strategy seems to be built on contempt for their clientele, and in many cases their absorption of smaller companies seems to mean a slow death of what made those companies (and their products) worth acquisition in the first place.
It seems likely that the real heir to the qualities so prized by the old EA is going to have to come out of the digital distribution and/or independent scene.
Hopefully they won't sell out to the current EA when they do.
It's easy to hate on EA. They've made some very good games, even recently. But they've also made some very bad ones, their market strategy seems to be built on contempt for their clientele, and in many cases their absorption of smaller companies seems to mean a slow death of what made those companies (and their products) worth acquisition in the first place.
It seems likely that the real heir to the qualities so prized by the old EA is going to have to come out of the digital distribution and/or independent scene.
Hopefully they won't sell out to the current EA when they do.
I'm just sad they didn't just die completely from one of their failures =/ The game industry would have been a better place without EA
Better to die by EA than to be enslaved by Activision and forced to produce mediocre and lifeless sequels to your once brilliant success...gigastar said:
EA thinks they haven't failed since the early 90's? That's rich, and maybe a good sign of hubris.
So you're telling us that it's ok that you fucked up this Bioware, it's the next Bioware that'll have everything right.