EA Turns Its Back on Single-Player Games
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I thought they already announced that they were not going to make any of their games single-player only anymore so this doesn't surprise me.
I really hope they get run out of buisness soon.
Captcha: not yet
Indeed Captcha, they haven't been run out of buisness yet sadly.
I really hope they get run out of buisness soon.
Captcha: not yet
Indeed Captcha, they haven't been run out of buisness yet sadly.
EA: Challenge Everything...even if it's in a completely ridiculous way. I can't say I'm going to miss buying your stuff EA, hurry up and burn.
Wow, took a while, but there ARE other people who didn't jump into the "EA hates single player games!" boat.daibakuha said:
I absolutely loved the ME3 datapad. It gave me the codex on the go so I didn't have to spend my gaming time going through it, AND... I have no shame in saying this, but I thought the text messages from your party members was a great way to help feel connected. It was like getting a voicemail from Mickey Mouse after you visit Disney World!
I'm no EA fan, but like you guys said, as long as it's done *WELL*, I have nothing against what they're saying here.
More like people reading the article and jumping to obvious conclusions, ones we have already seen play out in reality. Also, the body of your paragraph assumes the very things you just referred to as hate filled conclusions.daibakuha said:
The title of the article is descriptive of it's content.
It is a bad thing. They aren't making everything multiplayer or tacking services onto things because they think that's the best possible way to make the best possible game they can possibly make. Giant publishers like EA and Activision are striving to make games less like products and more like services because this takes away control from gamers and gives it to publishers while creating opportunities for monetization. Both EA and Activision are more than willing to make their games worse to achieve this type of control and have demonstrated it many times. It's very possible to contribute added value through these services or merely claim to like Activision. That's usually how you get people to swallow a bitter pill. In the meantime, we end up with games like Mass Effect 3 where the inclusion of multiplayer probably did hurt the rest of the game, as it usually will. There are only so many resources, there are only so many man-hours, there is only so much disc-space, and most decisions made and directions taken by developers overseeing a single and multi-player project must take both into account, no matter how many times they insist they are separate. There is no such thing. And Starcraft II doesn't have freaking LAN. Symptom of the same problem. Consumers aren't the only ones who get a vote on what products and services are made available to them. Publishers frequently are not responding to what the market wants them to do, they are herding consumers into doing things the way the publishers want them done. In the land of perfect competition, that may be impossible. But I've never been there, so I wouldn't know.
That is one heck of a stupid thing to do.
Still, so long as I can authenticate the game and then go on with my own jolly single-player self, I'll be happy.
Or, y'know, that's what authentication server emulators are for. *cough*PiracyAsALastResort*cough*
Still, so long as I can authenticate the game and then go on with my own jolly single-player self, I'll be happy.
Or, y'know, that's what authentication server emulators are for. *cough*PiracyAsALastResort*cough*
Here's the soundtrack for this thread -
And here's my reaction -
Because we can't really expect EA to make anything that lasts longer than a five minute distraction at best.
Ah well. Remind me that any EA Games I get in the future should be purchased in a way that gives them minimal/no cut from my money.
Also, a tenner says Jim will cut this apart this week.
And here's my reaction -
Because we can't really expect EA to make anything that lasts longer than a five minute distraction at best.
Ah well. Remind me that any EA Games I get in the future should be purchased in a way that gives them minimal/no cut from my money.
Also, a tenner says Jim will cut this apart this week.
Hearing this from EA is not surprising . This started years before! So its less "EA, you're idiots..." and more "EA being captain obvious."
The signs started back at Halo 2; the good multiplayer over the half-assed campaign. Then came MW2 by Infinity Ward, that campaign was shit...I put it down and didn't bother with it while they furthered the multiplayer even more. This isn't EA, its everywhere, even Valve. Think of it, I'm kind of frustrated that they don't get they don't even start Half Life 3 and not even leave TF2 alone for awhile. Do you guys even see that its more of a 90%-of-the-time-bad-cancer.
The pattern is evolving into games we know and love. Resident evil, Dead Space, Portal, Mass Effect, everything you think is sacred is slowly being corrupted by the multiplayer addition...
once again...sad but true.
The signs started back at Halo 2; the good multiplayer over the half-assed campaign. Then came MW2 by Infinity Ward, that campaign was shit...I put it down and didn't bother with it while they furthered the multiplayer even more. This isn't EA, its everywhere, even Valve. Think of it, I'm kind of frustrated that they don't get they don't even start Half Life 3 and not even leave TF2 alone for awhile. Do you guys even see that its more of a 90%-of-the-time-bad-cancer.
The pattern is evolving into games we know and love. Resident evil, Dead Space, Portal, Mass Effect, everything you think is sacred is slowly being corrupted by the multiplayer addition...
once again...sad but true.
Funny cocept of pride from EA. As I call only green lighting multiplayer games seems to suggest willful ignorance of the quite large number of consumers who want single player games and also suggest EA have no ideas how to attract customers beyond tacked on multiplayer and dlc. Oh well EA doesn't want my money, plenty others who do.
Remember that time this big game was bashed into oblivion over ridiculous Multiplayer tacked on top? Remember that time this big game was bashed into oblivion over always-on DRM? Remember that time this big game was bashed into oblivion over connecting everything and everyone?
Oh right, that all happened throughout the past six months.
Bloody idiots.
Go. To. Hell. EA.
Oh right, that all happened throughout the past six months.
Bloody idiots.
Go. To. Hell. EA.
Cue condescending bullshit from Peter Moore in a spontaneous "interview" on Kotaku/IGN, about how it's all just a vocal minority overreacting, this is the best thing ever for the industry and people only hate on EA because it's cool.
Just fuck these cunts seriously.
Just fuck these cunts seriously.
Oh I know that, but the servers are still there, I can still pop the disc in my PS3 and jump into a game fo at least 8v8 (usually a full game though) with a friend and spoend a few hours happily playing Bad Company 2, when they shut off the servers I'll be very sad, it's easily one of my favourite games of all time.fix-the-spade said:
I'd pick it up on PC but it wouldn't be the same without my friends. I'd hate starting over too.
