Goodbye Crysis.

Hostile17 said:
I don't think EA are as bad as everyone says. At least theres always going to be support, EA won't go bust. Also EA will more than likely push for expansion packs which can only be a good thing. EA arn;t daft they know how big a title this is going to be and won't rush it to the finish line before its ready. They will also beable to give it the advertising campaign the game needs.

Go for it I say!
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you are kidding arnt you - expansion packs - ive never known a company to release so many "expansion packs" that some companies would give away as a free update - The Sims is an example the "expansion" packs for that game are a joke.

The BF games are great but the amount of problems all 3 have have (bf1942, bf:v, bf2) is a joke, one patch will fix something and add more problems, so they release a new patch they release a new patch which fixes those problems yet adds even more problems which screw up the game so much that they recall that patch and tell "users to uninstall the game and go back to the previous patch until they release a new patch that patches the patch that screwed up the entire game"

Yeah go EA
 
Energize said:
Were dissing them for ruining games that could have been good and brining out rehases of the same game every year (fifa).
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What is this madness? A company trying to make money?

Seriously though, love them or hate them EA are here to stay. I personally don't mind them.

Don't like the Fifa games? Don't buy them, they arent meant to cater for the hardcore. They are bought by casual gamers and I am sure they enjoy them. Other wise they wouldn't sell so well.
 
xolotl said:
What is this madness? A company trying to make money?
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A fair point, but EA also have to face the fact that not everyone likes EA games, infact i hate them, F1 2006 just sucks big time, give the licence to to someone that can actually make an F1 game, and not one that they knock up for some cash. The only game by EA ive actually bought in years is BF2, which is good, but they have milked that with addons that should have been released for free. I just hope smaller companies keep going, as without Live For Speed id be all out of racing games ideas.
 
EA ruined the medal of honour series allied assault was great but then they rushed out others which were rubbish in comparison
EA ruined command and conquer series before EA westwood had one of the best RTS game series and then EA come in and bring us generals
EA ruined the battlefield series 1942 was great and had a large mod community vietnam was a obvious rush and very buggy and battlefield 2 could have been so much better if it werent for all the bugs and all these add-ons which should have been with the original game or patched in
EA sports has ruined sports games and their dominance makes it hard for competitors to get licences for club names/player names etc.

I'm fine with them being publishers like they are for valve but games they have developed or had a large influence in developing have all been of poor standard
 
salem said:
sorry i dont agree there',from launch it was pretty bad i mean giving someone repeated 3 round bursts with something like the saw was pretty pointless unless they were 10 feet away being one example.
the whole memory leak issue and general laaaaaag just pointed out how unfinished the game was, yes it did get worse as they patched it but lets face it , the game is a dog now and unless they perform a miracle with 1.4 it will just roll over and die as ea move on to 2142 or what ever its called, yeah i know ea are in it for the money but you would expect a little bit of effort would have been given to customer satisfaction, with this sort of track record no wonder people are worried about what they will do to crysis
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Just so you know mate, the memory leak started after the 1.1patch. and there isnt much lag. I'm an out and out sniper in BF2 and i rarely see any lagbad enough to make me miss a shot.
 
Energize said:
Intelligent people hate them, it's the mindless masses of casual gamers brainwashed by graphics and brand names that buy them.
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Oh? Then intelligent people can read my post again, and understand it ;)
Ulfhedjinn said:
If revenue defines how good a company is then I suppose AOL is the best ISP too?

Use some common sense please, everybody who pays attention knows that EA game support is poor and half-arsed.
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See above.

(Hint: take note of the everyone keyword.)
 
Dj_Jestar said:
Oh? Then intelligent people can read my post again, and understand it ;)
See above.

(Hint: take note of the everyone keyword.)
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You're the only person I see here defending EA. Hell, you're the only person I see defending EA ever.

That in itself speaks volumes, don't you think? :confused:
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
You're the only person I see here defending EA. Hell, you're the only person I see defending EA ever.

That in itself speaks volumes, don't you think? :confused:
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You've still missed the point. Read it again.
 
The gaming industry is just like the movie industry.
It is a real shame.

It`s just about money and mass market "family" friendly films. They don`t care if it is a "good" film.
For example:
Aliens versus Predator. This film is the most horrifying piece of **** film ever released. After seeing this film I actually felt angry and really let down. The director of this film had DESTROYED the legacy of such masters as the Aliens and Predator series. Parts of this film drew parallels with I think Robocop 2 when some five year old girl takes out ED 209 with a "Speak & Spell".
Blockbusters nowadays star talentless goons like Vin Diesel and The Rock .

At least in the movie industry we still have some quality movies that are on a smaller budget and not necessarily from Hollywood.
Unfortunately I don`t think the gaming Industry has enough smaller based production houses capable of resisting the cancer that is the likes of EA and co.
 
I can't believe some of you are trying to defend EA, can't you see they are trying to monopolise the whole gaming scene?

I would like to put my own argument here but I'd just be re-iterating what’s already been said.
 
rayb74 said:
The gaming industry is just like the movie industry.
It is a real shame.

It`s just about money and mass market "family" friendly films. They don`t care if it is a "good" film.
For example:
Aliens versus Predator. This film is the most horrifying piece of **** film ever released. After seeing this film I actually felt angry and really let down. The director of this film had DESTROYED the legacy of such masters as the Aliens and Predator series. Parts of this film drew parallels with I think Robocop 2 when some five year old girl takes out ED 209 with a "Speak & Spell".
Blockbusters nowadays star talentless goons like Vin Diesel and The Rock .

At least in the movie industry we still have some quality movies that are on a smaller budget and not necessarily from Hollywood.
Unfortunately I don`t think the gaming Industry has enough smaller based production houses capable of resisting the cancer that is the likes of EA and co.
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This isn't true at all, there are a lot of companies that do care about how good their games are and care for the customers. The best example I can think of here is Blizzard. WoW has the biggest customer base from a games point of view and Blizzard actaully care about the game and the customers, if they didn't they would have maintenance every week along with countless updates and patches etc etc all to keep the game balanced and keeping people interested.

And the part about quality movies on a small budget, there are a hell of a lot of games that were on a small budget or made by small companies that have had worldwide success, just look at Worms, i rest my case.
 
rayb74 said:
Aliens versus Predator. This film is the most horrifying piece of **** film ever released.
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I'm sorry, but Ultraviolet was by far the most horrifying piece of **** film ever released. :p I only watched half of it because it was so rubbish.

*Stops hijacking the thread now.*

EA suck. :p
 
Energize said:
Intelligent people hate them, it's the mindless masses of casual gamers brainwashed by graphics and brand names that buy them.
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They do?

I'm not a huge fan of EA (I agree they tend to rush games out and work on too many sequels), but they are a business and their purpose is (shock horror) to make money for their investors etc - the Sims are a sucessful franchise not to my liking at all but people obviously like them.

EA is run in large part by people with an understanding of business, which is more than can be said about many of the smaller/more innovative/idealistic companies - which is exactly how EA can buy them up so often they create and release great games but don't have the business savvy to keep the company operating without outside investment



Beleive me i've got no great love for EA, I dislike the stream of barely changing sequels they put out (but people buy them so it will continue), their reliance on patching PC games rather than releasing them "finished" etc (not to mention their past treatment of UO), but I don't hate them as a company.
 
R34P3R said:
This isn't true at all, there are a lot of companies that do care about how good their games are and care for the customers. The best example I can think of here is Blizzard. WoW has the biggest customer base from a games point of view and Blizzard actaully care about the game and the customers, if they didn't they would have maintenance every week along with countless updates and patches etc etc all to keep the game balanced and keeping people interested.

And the part about quality movies on a small budget, there are a hell of a lot of games that were on a small budget or made by small companies that have had worldwide success, just look at Worms, i rest my case.
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Blizzard are a rare exception to the rule, they are a company that has managed to build on it's sucess with a couple of games to build a massive new one whilst keeping afloat, without large amounts of outside investment (or straight out selling out).
Whilst WoW is a massive acheivement in it's own right, it's not really a major credit to Blizzard that they keep updating it, any MMORPG requires regular new content* to keep the players interested and paying - so it could be argued that they aren't doing it to be nice to the fans, but to keep the money coming in (and given the player numbers they can employ a large and varied dev team - most MMORPG's have a much smaller playerbase and as such cannot afford to have as big of a dev team working on new content).
It's worth noting that a MMORPG player will on average spend something like $120-200 a year on their subscription, which is the equivilent to 4-5 Fifa's etc.



*And even more regular maintinace of the servers and updates to keep it running smoothly (and try to stop cheaters).
 
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