EA Wants "To Be 90 Plus Metacritic at Everything"

[maximalist566]

90+ only games? Well, I know one company whose games are mostly over 90 on metacritic. So sad that it is Valve, isn't it, EA?

I still have Origin only because of ME 3. Soon after June 26 Origin-infection will be over.

And judging your games by Metacritic score is meh. You can take only positive reviews, can take more negative. Player score isn't a criteria either, cause most of the gamers, who post their reviews have 2 marks - 1 and 10.

 

[Kargathia]

I don't know wether to laugh at them for their stupidy, rage at them for their arrogance, or just go "meh" and watch as their company blows up from the inside out.

I'd advise getting the popcorn. Reading EA's PR efforts is like watching a slow-motion train crash.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

removing the horror from Dead Space for action

Wait, Dead Space is a HORROR game?

No, I call bullshit. There's no way that someone could fail that bad at making a horror game. It's quite clearly an action game, albiet one with an interesting ammo-management system that does seem to be taken from the horror genre.

Any game where the primary weapon severs limbs cannot be a horror game. Hell, if you have a weapon at ALL, you're drifting from that spot.

Not to be another of Yahtzee's gherkin-polishers, but horror, whether it's in a movie, a video game, or a book, is about pacing and suspense. Slasher flicks are not horror movies, Halo is not a horror franchise, and saying that Dead Space was horror is an insult to the genre. Hell, speaking of Halo, even THAT'S better-paced than Dead Space.

It's more horror than what it's doing now, that's for sure! Dead Space 1 and 2 had tightly claustrophobic corridors in poorly lit rooms with monsters that appeared to be people fresh from a car accident into a nuclear power plant. It was at least trying to be horror, in the way that it's still about action, but horror is a main element.

EA comes in and wants to broaden the audience, with multiplayer that works against the horror, Co-op which gets rid of the isolation that you feel when playing the games and emphasizing action over everything else. Did you see the E3 footage? Giant monsters, boss battle against a loud and sparkling drill that is making the entire room move around in a very fast way. That's not scary, not even trying to be scary, it's just trying to be about dudes in big armour curb stomping monstrosities. It's Gears of War with mining equipment and no cover, that's what it is.

Calumon: ...I don't know what to say, I can't play any of those games. D:

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

What stands out most of all from this article is that EA compares Origin to a mousetrap. Sounds about right to me.

 

[Terminate421]

removing the horror from Dead Space for action

Wait, Dead Space is a HORROR game?

No, I call bullshit. There's no way that someone could fail that bad at making a horror game. It's quite clearly an action game, albiet one with an interesting ammo-management system that does seem to be taken from the horror genre.

Any game where the primary weapon severs limbs cannot be a horror game. Hell, if you have a weapon at ALL, you're drifting from that spot.
.

Its a horror game.

I'm guessing that Alien, Dracula, Friday the 13th, Aliens and every other horror movie ever made are not horror movies or don't have horror in them because a gun/weapon exists?

Dead Space ain't terrifyingly scary but it certainly is horror whether you like it or not.

OT: EA making bold statements and fucking up what made Dead Space great.....*sigh*

 

[-Dragmire-]

I will challenge myself today and try to say something positive about EA that has nothing to do with the IPs they own.

...uh... I guess setting unreasonable goals for yourself is one way to potentially improve.

 

[teqrevisited]

So what they're saying is their PR department will spam ridiculously good reviews posing as members of the public in order to manipulate the ever so flawless system that is Metacritic.

 

[1337mokro]

So you want to be nothing more than a statistic? An arbitrary aggregation score that has very little to do with actual quality or has any meaning other than luring the stupid score demographic into buying your game.

Well by all means do try. Maybe it will result in better quality games, though the more obvious result is that review sites will lose even more of their credibility and employees (who were fired for completely unrelated reasons!).

Which then means! More youtube reviewers! Yay! Actual opinions, rather than processed marketing sludge passed of as a review.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Thats easy to do, buy some professional reviewers then aim the products underneath the lowest common denominator where every game becomes a 10 because the consumers are too stupid to notice otherwise...

 

[Flailing Escapist]

90+? Even fucking Fallout: New Vegas didn't get that and I so prefer it to anything EA has puked up in yearsssss.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

They can start by not using Origin to turn your consumers into bots and not banning people from their single player games because of another persons post.

 

[Eruanno]

Shouldn't you be working to make great games instead of getting great scores, EA? Priorities!

 

[FoolKiller]

EA: making money through repetition of others innovations since 2000

 

[Robert Ewing]

I suppose it's good for companies to set unrealistic goals.

 

[C2Ultima]

I don't think that EA understands Metacritic as a reflection of the games qualityn I think they only see it as a statistic of how well the game will sell.

 

[tmande2nd]

I have ONE game on Origin.
I have THIRTY games on Steam.

 

[The Great JT]

And how are you going to go about setting Origin up to be an equal to Steam, EA?
"By providing the same horrible service and business practices with the same restrictive DRM that treats our customers like criminals. We are EA, everyone loves us!"
This conversation makes me feel drunk.