J.T. Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 1 hour ago, JLSigman said: EA talks about not doing single player games as much Yeah, so, I need BioWare to quit EA and make a new studio to do DA4. This ain't gonna work for me. That' may be a good business model for its sports division, it's not a good business model for Bioware or Motive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 6 minutes ago, RIPPA said: I am confused why you are posting the same E3 video that we talked about in June... during E3 You got me all excited thinking there was new info... It's popping up in my Must Watch queue again on YouTube. Looks like people are talking about the brand new batch of recently released concept art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 11 minutes ago, J.T. said: That' may be a good business model for its sports division, it's not a good business model for Bioware or Motive. They are so fucked if Anthem tanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 11 minutes ago, RIPPA said: They are so fucked if Anthem tanks Bioware is fucked if Anthem tanks. EA will continue to generate regular revenue off of its sports titles. Their strategy makes no sense. EA bought Bioware in order to cash in on the popularity of the ME franchise and then they do their best to totally fuck the latest installment of that franchise to the point where arguably it is dead in the water. And now they want people to invest play time Anthem when hate is at an all time high and they add insult to injury by making you wait until next August so that you can read the DLC you should be playing as a game. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 Yeah - I meant to clarify that I was talking Bioware since that is what Jenn was originally talking about But I am also too lazy to edit my posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 BioWare is fucked even if Anthem is successful. For EA, sale projections are completely unrealistic and almost to the point that every man, woman and child have to buy Anthem twice. They don't care how much time is spent playing or even how long, but how much they purchased. So Anthem will get cosmetic DLC + season pass DLC + loot boxes + whatever else EA can think of to get people to spend more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Casey Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Well I'm fucking sold. Looks like career (or something) might be more immersive, given the weigh-in and press conference cut scenes, so I'm game for that. I really want a mode where you can just do a career as a current roster member and not have to start at the bottom, though. Say, do one as McGregor and not be treated as a newbie in a 2016 game world (UFC2). But, yeah, I'm really looking forward to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I'll probably pick it up but they really need a more intuitive grappling system by this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 If the WWE cared about their games actually being good, they'll get with EA and use the same engine for WWE '19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 I think 2K is paying the price for not taking some time off after acquiring the licence to start from scratch. They inherited a god awful mess and you can only polish a turd so much. Their game is incredibly flawed yet still fun in large part because of the work 2K has put in the last 2 or 3 years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 I want them to follow the example of Undisputed 3. I like the EA games quite a bit, but the historical content and the arcadey alternate championship mode have been sorely missed this generation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Oyaji said: I think 2K is paying the price for not taking some time off after acquiring the licence to start from scratch. They inherited a god awful mess and you can only polish a turd so much. Their game is incredibly flawed yet still fun in large part because of the work 2K has put in the last 2 or 3 years. The only notable thing about the WWE 2K games now are the videos of people laughing at the game breaking/alpha copy glitches that show up in a final released game. Vince and co. don't care, they are just counting the money from people buying the game every year. To me, the graphics for the WWE 2K games (with the most recent one I played being 2K16) still look like late PS2/early PS3 graphics. Not what I expected from a video game being released in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Holy shit, I was all set to pre-purchase Star Wars Battlefront 2, and then I read this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/11/12/fans-worry-star-wars-battlefront-2s-free-dlc-heroes-are-going-to-take-eons-to-grind-for/#2a6dd5fc3628 LOL ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! 40 in game hours to unlock ONE character? And then there's this: This Reddit post is now at about -350K downvotes. Craziness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I'll wait a few months for it to get dirt cheap like the first game did. Not gonna make the same mistake of paying $60 (or more) for half a game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I am comforted by this EA asshattery because makes me not hate Bioware so much for the horrible business decisions surrounding Mass Effect Andromeda. Anthem can still go fuck itself, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I love how developer after developer claims devoping a AAA title without fucking people is impossible even though it has been done repeatedly even in this era to great success, but okay. I can't run away from the AAA scene fast enough these days, though luckily it is an absolute golden time to be playing games from smaller studios. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I know the new Mario is exactly one of those AAA games you could be talking about in not fucking over their customers, but I still find myself way more invested in Stardew Valley than Odyssey. As if EA didn't need to put a really strong effort to right the ship of the Battlefront series after the first one was received as basically an incomplete game. Then they do this. Fuck 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 WHAT THE FUCK https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2s-microtransactions-are-a-r/1100-6454825/ Ok, so Gamespot buys $100 worth of loot boxes and that's not even half of what it would cost to unlock both Luke and Vader. It was basically cost around $260 to unlock them both. And it would cost $760 to unlock everything. For shit that's already in the fucking game. FUCK YOU EA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 There's voting with your wallet and there's saying 'hell no' and buying the game anyway. I hope EA reconsiders this completely -- I don't mind season pass DLC at this point because I know once I buy it, that's it. With this, I worry that EA will lock normally season pass DLC behind a lootbox paywall meaning you have to have enough ingame currency to enjoy the additional content. Keep in mind that EA recently launched Need For Speed Payback which also has in-game currency and lootboxes. I don't think anyone online will give an EA community manager a freakin' death threat over an Acura being 10,000 credits to get. But yeah, I won't be getting Star Wars Battlefront II. And I bought (and Platinum'ed) Star Wars Battlefront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Credit where credit is due, EA reduced the credit cost of the characters by 75%. It's a big step in the right direction. Even still, it's astonishing that they thought they would get away with some so ludicrous. I have never seen something so shady before in video games. At least not that I recall anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 I think it becomes more clear by the year that with these big companies a lot of the decisions are being made by people that don't actually play or understand video games but are simply Interchangeable Corporate Parts. That still doesn't justify that sort of potential cost, but it's all I've got. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Oh wait. Dammit! Fuck them! So while they reduced the amount it costs to unlock characters in the game, they also scaled down how many credits you earn after every match you play. So it's just the same horrible grind with lower amounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 This bullshit nearly guarantees that I will not buy Anthem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 You want more bullshit? So in EA's announcement of reducing the cost for heroes they mentioned how they were doing an AMA on Reddit on Wednesday. This morning the r/starwarsbattlefront mods were like, "we have no idea what they're talking about, no one has approached us about doing an AMA." So the mods there are completely in the dark and people speculated that it would be on r/iama. And then the r/iama mod chimed in to say that no one contacted them either. The whole thing looks really unorganized on EA's part and it looks shady as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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