EA wants to turn around its poor reputation - Again?

rhysduck · 6 Nov 2013 at 14:04

Rossi~ said:
I couldn't find it cheaper than £64.99 at the time. Where is it for £45?

£43.80 I paid via Origin (Mexico Proxy)

Edit: That's 43p an hour if I play it for 100hours for it's life span (Until the next BF) Thats not including taking into account the various dlc's that will be released.

Yaayuh! · 6 Nov 2013 at 14:12

rhysduck said:
£43.80 I paid via Origin (Mexico Proxy)

Edit: That's 43p an hour if I play it for 100hours for it's life span (Until the next BF) Thats not including taking into account the various dlc's that will be released.

Ah! That's a good idea

platypus · 6 Nov 2013 at 14:45

It's just EA Press Conference 2014™.

Same old crap.

eatcustard · 6 Nov 2013 at 14:46

EA will carry on as it always has done, as long as the dummies keep buying the games

murah · 6 Nov 2013 at 15:03

My experience with EA is this: They rush a game out (BF3/BF4), It's riddled with bugs. Takes them over 3 months to fix the core bugs, and generally the little ones rarely will be fixed. Eventually you will get a game that "works" and you have fun on.

I feel like DICE was ruined by EA, They where a great company and made some fab games before EA swallowed them up. EA is profit and any time they try this "We are going to turn around our attitudes" It always falls through.

The ONLY way they can redeem themselves in my eyes is to start FIXING the bugs, stop RUSHING the games out. Remove the micro-transactions from games such as Deadspace3! and stop charging so much on Origin because if they are trying to compete with steam they will never manage on the current format they are using.

I'll still buy a few EA games over the years as I do like some of them, but each year they are starting to niggle at me more with the bugs, blatant lies and in-complete content (Micro-transactions is not cool!).

Sho · 6 Nov 2013 at 18:41

platypus said:
It's just EA Press Conference 2014™.

Same old crap.

CaptainRAVE · 6 Nov 2013 at 19:37

They did this a few years ago, then became worse than ever. I don't hold out much hope for this.

Stonehouse · 6 Nov 2013 at 20:21

Just a marketing ploy

Freddie1980 · 6 Nov 2013 at 20:23

Are EA worse then Activision?

RavenXXX2 · 6 Nov 2013 at 20:28

Activision are worse if you're a PC gamer.

Tummy · 6 Nov 2013 at 20:30

Freddie1980 said:
Are EA worse then Activision?

Rock and a hard place, no?

I think they're both pretty awful, I like a couple of the titles that EA own, that's it.

m4rmite · 6 Nov 2013 at 21:14

Im lucky i guess in the fact i paid £54.99 for the standard and premium add on from simplycdkeys but unlucky in the fact the game bloody crashes nigh on every map.
I wouldnt mind the profit if the game would actually run.
If EA made cars they would crash test themselves on a daily / hours basis

Glanza · 6 Nov 2013 at 21:26

DEL 707 said:
I was more convinced with BP's attempt to turn around public opinion

Instantly thought of this whilst I read that link.

EA will never shed their shoddy money grabbing image.

Rozzy85 · 6 Nov 2013 at 21:39

The EA argument is getting a little boring TBH. We all know they're a big, shareholder driven company who's sole purpose is to line their pockets while gaining more control of the market and put on a mask when dealing with PR to appear sincere. That's capitalism 101 and they won't change. As long as people buy, they'll produce. People whinge but they still buy BF4 for £60 cause they can't help them selves and just feed the beast some more.

The reality is that the majority of the customer base bought the game cause all the cool kids are talking about it and it's the hottest thing so must have it. That's what you want to achieve with advertisement, you need to make them want it. The more they want it the higher you can set the price tag cause they'll pay just to have it. I doubt even a third of the people who buy the game even care/know who EA are; just like with every other major company selling popular, overpriced products.

MissChief · 6 Nov 2013 at 21:55

Don't forget they gave away nearly ten games for 'free' in that you could donate the origin humble bundle all to charity AND gave both Origin and Steam keys for games that were on both. All in all a very good gesture that was the most popular Humble Bundle ever and raised over ten million dollars for charity. Not bad IMO.

demon8991 · 6 Nov 2013 at 22:11

EA and Activision are what's wrong with gaming today. I have not bought a game from either of them for quite a few years now and I dont even use origin.

I know so many people complain about Steam/Valve fanboi'ism but lets face facts they have done more for PC gaming then anyone else ever has and without them PC gaming would be in a far worse place right now. Valve know how to make games and put the gamer before the profits and ironically doing this has made them huge profits creating a very loyal fanbase.

m4cc45 · 7 Nov 2013 at 06:52

MissChief said:
Don't forget they gave away nearly ten games for 'free' in that you could donate the origin humble bundle all to charity AND gave both Origin and Steam keys for games that were on both. All in all a very good gesture that was the most popular Humble Bundle ever and raised over ten million dollars for charity. Not bad IMO.

It's a good gesture but 10 million to EA is like licencing Tiger Woods for a couple of years. Its just pocket change to them.

It was a good gesture but the gesture was to get people on Origin so that they can say they have x million people active to try and entice more people to join (well if they have 50 million active people then surely it's a good service???)

EA have done so much back peddling (i.e. we're never going to drop prices, Steams sales are a gimmick, etc.) that they are in a constant state of moon walking.

M.

oldbag · 7 Nov 2013 at 07:11

It took 6 months to fix bf3 from release and even then the game sucked.

Freddie1980 · 7 Nov 2013 at 08:19

EA have been sitting on the Wing Commander franchise name for 15 years now Chris Roberts shown just shown how much money can be made from a Wing Commander style space sim. This just shows the lack of imagination there is at EA.

Outline · 7 Nov 2013 at 08:36

Rozzy85 said:
The EA argument is getting a little boring TBH. We all know they're a big, shareholder driven company who's sole purpose is to line their pockets while gaining more control of the market and put on a mask when dealing with PR to appear sincere. That's capitalism 101 and they won't change. As long as people buy, they'll produce. People whinge but they still buy BF4 for £60 cause they can't help them selves and just feed the beast some more.

This is why I'm completely fine with members of the PC community trolling others for continuing to support Activision/EA. We have this aura of "We're better and smarter than console gamers" about us, yet continue to make stupid mistakes. Sim City. Battlefield 4. Call of Duty.

I'm not saying anyone is better than anyone for choosing not to, but it seems to be unanimous; we don't want to keep letting them get away with it. So anyone that does manage to avoid the hype and boycott their products, I have to pat on the back. The companies don't care about 'real gamers', what 'real gamers' want, or the quality of their games... They care about sales. Which is exactly why we see franchises like Tony Hawk's, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed continue to be churned out until they run dry... Taking advantage of loyalty, familiarity.