EA Turns Its Back on Single-Player Games
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Well, that's going to make the Steam Christmas sales easy to sort through... oh wait, they gave up on that too.
Meh, nothing to see here for me, just EA finally admitting what people having been saying about them for ages. I for one find I'm having more fun with singleplayer games, and for what little multiplayer I do play, I prefer splitscreen. I'm a dying breed, I know, but I can still wish that I wasn't, can't I?
Meh, nothing to see here for me, just EA finally admitting what people having been saying about them for ages. I for one find I'm having more fun with singleplayer games, and for what little multiplayer I do play, I prefer splitscreen. I'm a dying breed, I know, but I can still wish that I wasn't, can't I?
I think it's basically a question of faith. The reason there is no equivalence between Valve and EA's publishing policies is because we've seen EA implement such ideas (which, inherently, aren't bad at all) horribly, never in the interest of the consumer, but only to deepen their invasive control over the IP and look good in front of investors. And when such methods backfire, they absorb the damage by cannibalizing the development studio whose game they ruined by interfering.daibakuha said:
Yes, it's okay to give the benefit of the doubt to a company that's proven themselves to the consumer base. Yes, it's justified to think EA will fuck this up. No, it's not a "double standard" if you would sooner hire an upstanding citizen over a multiple offender.
Yep. Exactly. The games are still going to have a single player mode. (At least for now).CardinalPiggles said:
Besides, I actually really enjoyed the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.
Just got to point out on that one. There is nothing wrong with an rts having multiplayer, that's fine. But EA have announced that they are making C&C generals 2 (YAY). BUT that it will be multiplayer only to 'return to the roots of the franchise' or something like that. And that right there is decidedly NOT ok.daibakuha said:
Well there goes any hopes I had for Dragon Age 3.
SCREW YOU EA! It was bad enough they screwed up the last two Harry Potter games. It was bad enough that they have screwed up Bioware. Now this!
But meh, they are just admitting to what they've been doing for years now.
SCREW YOU EA! It was bad enough they screwed up the last two Harry Potter games. It was bad enough that they have screwed up Bioware. Now this!
But meh, they are just admitting to what they've been doing for years now.
I too really enjoyed the Mass effects multiplayer. That was an example of when it really worked well, and sometimes it does work. However some games simply shouldn't have multiplayer, they don't add to the experience, there's the same but better that already exists, waste of dev time, etc. Examples where it doesn't work: spec ops the line, bioshock 2, most horror games, sreiously mp just shouldn't be in them.Blunderboy said:
