Why does everyone bitch about EA Games?
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HamburgerBoy
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Bungie, iD, and Blizzard are worse. At least EA Games doesn't have rabid fanboys following around their horrible games.
HamburgerBoy
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Halo, every single iD game aside from RTCW, and every Blizzard game since Diablo II suck badly as well. They have millions of fanboys.
i didn't say their games suck, i haven't played a EA game in years. but i've heard that they treat their employees like utter crap. heard quite a few stories from employees/ex-employees.
HamburgerBoy
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Ricemarine
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There was a whole thread about how EA treats their employees, and how they have to overwork with no bonus.
EA games is absolutely terrible at supporting their products.
If you guys know anything about MOHAA (medal of honor allied assault) and the community surrounding it,
you'd know that it was in DESPERATE need of a patch to fix many crucial, game altering bugs, and EA promised to release
a patch for it. but guess what? a patch was never released, and the community had to take matters into their own hands and
relesae third party anti cheat program that were only partially effective.
Thats one example, but there are multitudes of others that show EA games only cares about the profit and not their customer.
If you guys know anything about MOHAA (medal of honor allied assault) and the community surrounding it,
you'd know that it was in DESPERATE need of a patch to fix many crucial, game altering bugs, and EA promised to release
a patch for it. but guess what? a patch was never released, and the community had to take matters into their own hands and
relesae third party anti cheat program that were only partially effective.
Thats one example, but there are multitudes of others that show EA games only cares about the profit and not their customer.
HamburgerBoy
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You're quoting yourself for truth? And bugs are hardly the biggest problem with games. I'd much rather have a buggy but original game than a polished one that uses gameplay from a decade ago.
Clearly, its ok to release an unfinished product to the market and promise your audience you'll fix it and never actually do so.... :roll: and also, games 10 years ago displayed creativity well beyond the games we have today.
HamburgerBoy
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They should patch their games better, but they could be doing worse. Games being more creative ten years ago is exactly my point. Just compare the AI and gameplay in Warcraft II to the AI and gameplay in Warcraft III. Aside from a hero system, they're pretty much the same.
IAteYourMother
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if you look at the planes from 100 years ago and now, they're pretty much the same too, they both fly using the same principle
yukichigai
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You, Sir, are an idiot. It doesn't matter how innovative a game is if it crashes every 5 f%$# minutes.
Game studios need to learn to finish their work before they release it.
EA's lack of widescreen support on every game they bring out drives me mad.
Nearly every widescreen Westwood Command and Conquer supports it while the EA Generals + Zero Hour do not (missing Vertical) which is ridiculous it is a step back.
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/masterlist/masterlist_c.php
Nearly every widescreen Westwood Command and Conquer supports it while the EA Generals + Zero Hour do not (missing Vertical) which is ridiculous it is a step back.
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/masterlist/masterlist_c.php
Schadenfroh
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The Sins of EA:
1. The buyout of Westwood, followed by the decline of the C&C series.
2. The buyout of Origin and the death of the Crusader series and Wing Commander games.
3. Maxis becoming little more than an expansion pack for The Sims factory with a side of a steadily deciling Sim City games.
4. Releasing games that seem to be more buggy than the bulk of the game companies out there.
5. Focuses more on expansion packs than content of the original game.
6. Everything they touch goes down hill after they buy them.
7. They feel the need to secure exclusive deals because they are so insecure of their own ability to create games that people want.
8. They have annoying splash screens that they force you to watch for about 30 sec before you get to play the game you payed for.
9. They dont release patches down the road that make it to where you dont have to have the CD in the drive (I love the UT series makers).
10. They are evil and eat the souls of babies.
11. They are trying to buyout DICE (control over half the company) and are even now curropting them. They are working harder to create booster and expansion packs for BF2 than they are fixing bugs with the original game.
12. They fired all of the makers of Desert Combat and cheated them out of some of the money that was promised to them by DICE.
How could the makers of LHX attack chopper (best helo sim ever made) sink so low?
1. The buyout of Westwood, followed by the decline of the C&C series.
2. The buyout of Origin and the death of the Crusader series and Wing Commander games.
3. Maxis becoming little more than an expansion pack for The Sims factory with a side of a steadily deciling Sim City games.
4. Releasing games that seem to be more buggy than the bulk of the game companies out there.
5. Focuses more on expansion packs than content of the original game.
6. Everything they touch goes down hill after they buy them.
7. They feel the need to secure exclusive deals because they are so insecure of their own ability to create games that people want.
8. They have annoying splash screens that they force you to watch for about 30 sec before you get to play the game you payed for.
9. They dont release patches down the road that make it to where you dont have to have the CD in the drive (I love the UT series makers).
10. They are evil and eat the souls of babies.
11. They are trying to buyout DICE (control over half the company) and are even now curropting them. They are working harder to create booster and expansion packs for BF2 than they are fixing bugs with the original game.
12. They fired all of the makers of Desert Combat and cheated them out of some of the money that was promised to them by DICE.
How could the makers of LHX attack chopper (best helo sim ever made) sink so low?
To sum it up: They don't compete by making better games; they compete by buying out their competitors, and signing exclusive deals.
HamburgerBoy
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Obviously it would be hard to invent a new genre of gaming, but come on. Using my Warcraft III example, the AI still knows exactly where you are. They still get resources without having to haul anything. They still use the same tactics over and over. The series really hasn't progressed since 1995, or whenever it was that Warcraft II was released.
You, sir, are using a hyperbole to back your argument.
1. It is a shame that the Crusader and Lands of Lore games are no more. However, Eidos killed off Deus Ex and Thief. I'm sure that there are other publishers which have ruined good franchises as well.
2. Same as above.
3. Meh, I've never played a Maxis game that was ever very interesting.
4. That's usually the fault of the developer, not the publisher.
5. Yeah, they do seem to be pushing expansion packs harder than the rest. Can't disagree here.
6. Every game Microsoft touches sucks as well. Don't blame EA only.
7. Exclusive deals? Dunno what you're talking about there.
8. They do suck, but it is pretty easy to get rid of them.
9. I agree, games that always require CDs are pretty annoying. Once again though, that is what most publishers do.
10. lol
11. The bugs are the fault of Dice, not EA. I agree that booster packs and expansion packs suck though.
12. I knew that they bought out the Desert Combat team, but didn't know that they fired them.
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