Editorial: Stop Treating Us Like Idiots, Microsoft and EA
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I understand complaints this article is being listed as news (despite saying editorial), but beyond that, if you actually sat through these press conferences there was obvious differences. I'm surprised, genuinely surprised, more people have not had complaints with Microsoft's show for what they said. Every single game was prefaced with 'we are listening, we totally listened, we are so humbled, this is such an honor for us'. Okay fine, what's next? Oh, cinematic trailers? CoD showed gameplay, if you want to call it that, of which the majority was game cinematic. So, we know it has graphics, great. The gameplay they showed was comatose.
The only people I can see being excited by what Microsoft did are exactly who it is painfully obvious they targeted, XBox One owners. Sure, if you own one they spent a great deal of time explaining to you why you were so right to do so, but to anyone on the outside it just looked like desperate apologies and time they could have spent showing games. They could have come out and hit the audience hard with games and gameplay, and when it was done dropped the mic and walked off stage. THAT would have been focusing on the games, and it would have been a great show.
Instead we got speeches and music videos. We learned if you are a fan of racing and shooting, rejoice! That's what you'll get on XBox One. No room for niche titles like Entwined, they spent less than a minute showing off their indie offerings while Sony gave one center stage. As a person who has yet to have a reason to buy either a XBONE or PS4, if I was basing my decision solely on their two conferences there is no contest. Microsoft delivered a dull, sanitized, boring, paint-by-numbers show. You could have easily swapped the videos out for spreadsheets and powerpoint slides for the same effect.
The only people I can see being excited by what Microsoft did are exactly who it is painfully obvious they targeted, XBox One owners. Sure, if you own one they spent a great deal of time explaining to you why you were so right to do so, but to anyone on the outside it just looked like desperate apologies and time they could have spent showing games. They could have come out and hit the audience hard with games and gameplay, and when it was done dropped the mic and walked off stage. THAT would have been focusing on the games, and it would have been a great show.
Instead we got speeches and music videos. We learned if you are a fan of racing and shooting, rejoice! That's what you'll get on XBox One. No room for niche titles like Entwined, they spent less than a minute showing off their indie offerings while Sony gave one center stage. As a person who has yet to have a reason to buy either a XBONE or PS4, if I was basing my decision solely on their two conferences there is no contest. Microsoft delivered a dull, sanitized, boring, paint-by-numbers show. You could have easily swapped the videos out for spreadsheets and powerpoint slides for the same effect.
When I was referring to how Ubisoft had impressed me I was mostly referring to Far Cry 4. I loved Far Cry 3 and what they have shown of 4 looks pretty fantastic to me. I don't really care about the new AC (although I enjoyed Black Flag a lot).Nimzabaat said:
Yeah, Far Cry 4 looks awesome. Honey. Badgers. Wait, my mistake. Weaponized. Honey. Badgers.RedDeadFred said:
Still though, I liked Far Cry 3 for the running around on the island bit just as much as the story. Though it was a more equal spread than in AC4 or WD. Also... Far Cry seems to have far less mandatory auto/easy fail missions. I think I might be done with Watch Dogs already just because I suck at driving missions
I kinda' hoped this was an article about Microsoft and EA shouting at us for treating them like morons.
I mean, they ARE morons, but they still must hate that.
My only real disappointment in this article, therefore, is that it isn't what I thought it was. I'm otherwise fine with it.
I mean, they ARE morons, but they still must hate that.
My only real disappointment in this article, therefore, is that it isn't what I thought it was. I'm otherwise fine with it.
Microsoft and EA will stop treating thier costumers like Idiots when their costumers stop acting like ones. If you keep preordering based on bullshots they keep giving you bullshots. if you keep praising them for a trialer they will continue to show it and if you keep treating E3 as anything but a showoff to shareholders then you will cotinue getting screwed over by what you see.
thats hardly a good thing. just because most people do it does not make it a right thing. most people are racist, but im sure we would agre that we should not be racist just because most people are.Xsjadoblayde said: