EA destroys another great company

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: flashbacck
Is there a list of devoured companies somewhere? Blackisle, Origin and Westwood are the ones I miss the most, but I'm sure I'll remember others if I could see a full list.

edit: speaking of DICE, has it been verified that this is real?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_t6g0VLLY0

After witnessing the ridiculous length people will go to make fake videos, I'm hesitant to believe it.

haha, i dunno. the narration seems pretty sh!tty but everything else looks kinda real. hard to say though. it is EA so i wouldn't doubt that its real.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
In a few years all games on the PC will be made by the following companies:

EA
EA
EA
EA
Blizzard
Valve

You are crazy. Valve has made all of 4 games, same with Blizzard. They aren't exactly big studios. There are plenty of little studios putting out games and have more games than both those guys combined.

 

[Continuity28]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
In a few years all games on the PC will be made by the following companies:

EA
EA
EA
EA
Blizzard
Valve

You are crazy. Valve has made all of 4 games, same with Blizzard. They aren't exactly big studios. There are plenty of little studios putting out games and have more games than both those guys combined.

I agree about Valve, but Blizzard is currently one of the most successful studios because of WoW. It doesn't matter how many games a studio made... WoW literally sold and is selling games and subscriptions by the millions, and they get money monthly from those millions of people. They make over $720,000,000 per year, it looks like. That's nothing that should be downplayed. 😉

 

[Fingolfin269]

Well, if EA did buy Blizzard we wouldn't have to worry about Diablo/Starcraft/Warcraft sequels anymore...

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Well, if EA did buy Blizzard we wouldn't have to worry about Diablo/Starcraft/Warcraft sequels anymore...

A new EA Lineup! Diablo 2K7, Starcraft 2K7, Warcraft 2K7! Now with John Madden narrations and map drawings!

"E A Everything. It owns the game."

 

[skace]

Oh and you naysayers can hate on DICE all you want. But they are a great developer because of BF1942 and BF2. Despite the claims that DICE doesn't support BF2 there are a massive number of people playing it and a large number of the problems in the game have been resolved.

 

[stnicralisk]

Originally posted by: skace
Oh and you naysayers can hate on DICE all you want. But they are a great developer because of BF1942 and BF2. Despite the claims that DICE doesn't support BF2 there are a massive number of people playing it and a large number of the problems in the game have been resolved.

It is funny to say that in their defence:

"a large number of the problems in the game have been resolved."

at a date that is how long after the release of the product? 10 months?

The truth is this- EA didnt commit this atrocity. We cannot blame EA for buying up companies and then squishing them back into a box and ruining their products. We have to blame each other. If gamers didnt buy EA products - EA wouldnt be able to continue their domination of the market. We enable them and support their actions when we buy their products.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk
It is funny to say that in their defence:

"a large number of the problems in the game have been resolved."

at a date that is how long after the release of the product? 10 months?

The truth is this- EA didnt commit this atrocity. We cannot blame EA for buying up companies and then squishing them back into a box and ruining their products. We have to blame each other. If gamers didnt buy EA products - EA wouldnt be able to continue their domination of the market. We enable them and support their actions when we buy their products.

Uh? I'm not following you. They've fixed the problems in multiple patches along the way. And all of the problems were trivial. It's not like nobody could play the game without crashing until last week or something. And you're damn right I bought BF2, I'm not punishing myself in some hope that EA will take a hit.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: stnicralisk
It is funny to say that in their defence:

"a large number of the problems in the game have been resolved."

at a date that is how long after the release of the product? 10 months?

The truth is this- EA didnt commit this atrocity. We cannot blame EA for buying up companies and then squishing them back into a box and ruining their products. We have to blame each other. If gamers didnt buy EA products - EA wouldnt be able to continue their domination of the market. We enable them and support their actions when we buy their products.

Uh? I'm not following you. They've fixed the problems in multiple patches along the way. And all of the problems were trivial. It's not like nobody could play the game without crashing until last week or something. And you're damn right I bought BF2, I'm not punishing myself in some hope that EA will take a hit.

You should support games such as Red Orchestra instead of BF2. The little guy vs. Goliath. Then again, it's also more realistic vs. arcadey but still. 🙂

 

[stnicralisk]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: stnicralisk
It is funny to say that in their defence:

"a large number of the problems in the game have been resolved."

at a date that is how long after the release of the product? 10 months?

The truth is this- EA didnt commit this atrocity. We cannot blame EA for buying up companies and then squishing them back into a box and ruining their products. We have to blame each other. If gamers didnt buy EA products - EA wouldnt be able to continue their domination of the market. We enable them and support their actions when we buy their products.

Uh? I'm not following you. They've fixed the problems in multiple patches along the way. And all of the problems were trivial. It's not like nobody could play the game without crashing until last week or something. And you're damn right I bought BF2, I'm not punishing myself in some hope that EA will take a hit.

It is almost sad that you would consider not purchasing a video game a punishment.

Also BF2 is not the only game to have trouble from EA NFS. BF2 did have its share of bugs that would cause the game to crash or in some cases not run at all. It had more than its share of bugs which caused the game to be much less than ideal to play (team color displays is a trivial example but the answer to when EA fixed it makes it a superb example.)

"The Bad: Huge, showstopping bugs can prevent you from even playing the game;" -gamespot

"Before even getting into the game, finding a server to join is necessary, but it is difficult for players to accomplish such a task since the server browser randomly decides to take a bathroom break and keeps you waiting. Once in game, more bugs await. A bug that has recklessly made its way from the demo right into the retail version is lurking in the shadows." -gamershell (though overall they say it is still worth the purchase it is just ridiculous for a bug such as this that was exposed during play testing to exist on an on the shelf product of a T1 company)

"Unacceptable bugs and slowdown detract from an otherwise great expansion pack." -pcgamer

"EA have, just as they did with "Battlefield 2," released an unfinished game full to the brim with bugs and annoyances." -Jolt Online Gaming UK
If you visited the EA forums at any time after the release you could find a ton of posts related to bugs from the game in excess of what a game even with so many purchasers should experience - especially from a company who has the capital to play test and fix issues prior to releasing it to the public. Sorry you might be okay with being a play tester but I definitely am not.

Next you state that you wont punish yourself by not purchasing EA products and I say that you DO punish yourself by buying them. For one - if EA didnt exist we would still have a battlefield product from DICE. EA will continue to abuse its employees and monopolize the market by using its capital to cripple or outright buy the competition. They purchase exclusive rights and when a company continues to outdo them they buy a controlling stake in that company.

If you dont believe that free competition is good for you as a PC game consumer then you make me feel very sad. Without competition to drive improvements and new ideas where would we be?

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
You should support games such as Red Orchestra instead of BF2. The little guy vs. Goliath. Then again, it's also more realistic vs. arcadey but still. 🙂

I uninstalled UT long before Red Orchestra came out, I can't be held responsible for that 🙁