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EA: We are doubling down on live services and core franchises
- Thread starter Deeke
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Who keeps supporting these games? Fifa and Madden are yearly disasters with barely any innovations in regards to gameplay or features with a buggy engine that causes absurd glitches on top of predatory microtransactions, review scores get lower year after year and all you see is people complaining about them and yet the player count increases?
It feels like EA just keep getting worse but their profits just keep getting better, it makes zero sense.
It feels like EA just keep getting worse but their profits just keep getting better, it makes zero sense.
Sims 4 was such a downgrade in so many ways from previous titles.
My partner is an avid Sims player, she has been since she was younger and still swears to this day that Sims 2 was one of the best Sims made with the most detail and care and attention put into it both graphically in terms of animations and what the Sims do but also in terms of gameplay but even Sims 3 was better than 4 in her eyes, the DLC practices in Sims 4 are terrible, stripping content for the sake of gaining money and even the small details just simply aren't there like they were with the other Sims games.
I can't argue with her after watching her play both.
The problem is that EA has monopoly on this games. People want Soccer and Football games with there favorite teams and players over a good product. That is why, they can just get away with crap.
I really wish, some institution would force the FIFA and NFL to give there licenses to at least two different companies, so that there is some competition.
I know, I've been a patreon for McGee for quite some time now (got me some nifty Alice merch too, Cheshire Cat plushie, chaos coin, chaos necklace, signed art prints etc.). At this point in time EA could just sell the IP to him, as I'm fairly sure they'll never again do anything with it.
I have been wishing for this game since Skate 3 came out a shy over nine years ago, back in May 2010.
Almost a whole decade has come and gone, and I have accepted that the Skate series is dead for good...
I think you meant to say published...Visceral made Dead Space, Dice made Mirrors Edge, etc.
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Posts like this provide necessary context for the hardcore gaming community. All the bellyaching about EA and all the criticism about their microtransactions seems to be mostly irrelevant. When they get financial results like this, it's pretty easy to see why they ignore the complaints.
is now the right time to get back into it? I bought it around launch and probably havent played it since February
I would say so. New content. Not a of fixes as the Pacific theatre of war launches this week.
I've been pretty critical of BFV as I'm a long term fan, but now I feel it's turned the corner. It really needed another 9-12m development time.
I mean, we all say this. Rightfully so. But their sales are still up. Madden 20, despite being an awful title no different from 19, if not worse, is still doing better than it already has.
We are not the market for these games. The casual install base is huge, and unfortunately keeps propping up these half hearted, undeveloped, sports titles.
Thanks for buying the NBA Jam franchise and subsequently killing it off while making your own god awful NBA game instead. In return, I will continue a years long streak of never buying an EA game.
EA to me signals a hard pass. I was not aware Apex was EA, so they got me there, but I hate EA.
That seems like an unnecessary clarification considering they were/are part of EA (RIP Pandemic).
True, very true. This is what I would like to happen as well, the NHL series is also dead on its feet, servers are essentially unpopulated.
Looks like Titanfall got put on the back burner so Respawn could focus on Apex (and Star Wars).
In February this year, Vince teased more TF coming this year and in their earnings CC EA said,
"We will drive the Titanfall universe forward with Apex Legends live service and a premium game later in the year."
In yesterday's CC EA said,
[analyst] "One thing that was not mentioned was Titanfall 3. Has that been sort of integrated now into Apex Legends? Is that still being looked at as a separate title?"
[EA] " It certainly could be a separate title in the future. We really want to keep the team hyper-focused on Apex because we see there's so much opportunity there. But so I can't give you a sense of if and when it will come, but we're -- it's still a great brand and we certainly won't forget about it down the road."
In February this year, Vince teased more TF coming this year and in their earnings CC EA said,
"We will drive the Titanfall universe forward with Apex Legends live service and a premium game later in the year."
In yesterday's CC EA said,
[analyst] "One thing that was not mentioned was Titanfall 3. Has that been sort of integrated now into Apex Legends? Is that still being looked at as a separate title?"
[EA] " It certainly could be a separate title in the future. We really want to keep the team hyper-focused on Apex because we see there's so much opportunity there. But so I can't give you a sense of if and when it will come, but we're -- it's still a great brand and we certainly won't forget about it down the road."
Fun is fine, but does a person need every expansion pack to have fun? I'm thinking more of Microtransactions and loot boxes wher kids can spend hundreds of their parents money and they wind up with some serious charges on their credit cards. And what to do if the kid later gets bored with it. There goes all that money. Sure kid can pick it up again but how often does that happen?
It's so weird, I haven't seen any other publisher abandon its franchises as readily or as effortlessly as Electronic Arts. Yeah, I mean like Burnout, Mass Effect, Dead Space, and Skate in recent memory; SSX, NBA Street, or DefJam before that; but even franchises like Road Rash and Mutant League Football...all games that earned a loyal fan base only to be brazenly abandoned, leaving an empty vacuum in mainstream games. Over and over and over, without exception. I guess it's not on EA to cater to fans, but sheesh. At a certain point you'd think they'd want to shake their reputation as the worst company ever.
And Witcher 2 and 3 before that.
I don't doubt that it CAN be done, I just don't trust EA.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20down said:
technically costing them money to play their online games and not giving them money (after the initial one time of course)
