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No.192494
Anonymous
No.192495
The Sneaky Tiki
I am so much more bitter after recently replaying the Dead Space series.
No.192496
Nøpe
Hate em. Don't care for their games. Don't care for what they've done to old series. The usual.
No.192497
Mr. Stone !zWb42fBPMM
Replies:>>192498
NHL ’94 was the last great game they ever made.
No.192498
Anonymous
>>192497
I actually really liked the latest Fifa.
No.192505
DudeWithMoney !SFwR6DnH/Y
Replies:>>192506
I don't buy their games anymore, as a matter of principle, and I hope the company chokes on their own shitty-games vomit and die.

They're not the only bad actor in video games publishing, but they are particularly and persistently awful.
No.192506
Mr. Stone !zWb42fBPMM
>>192505

At this point, Ubisoft is the only company actively trying to outdo EA in terms of being complete fucking shit.

And they may end up there in due time…
No.192507
Anonymous
Replies:>>192508
>>192506
What about Activision?
No.192508
Mr. Stone !zWb42fBPMM
Replies:>>192509
>>192507

They’re definitely #3.
No.192509
Anonymous
Replies:>>192510
>>192508
Are they? Worse than Capcapom?
No.192510
Mr. Stone !zWb42fBPMM
Replies:>>192511
>>192509

Capcom isn’t evil so much as it is incompetent. Activision is more incompetent and marginally evil. EA and Ubisoft are both incredibly incompetent and damn-near-excessively evil.
No.192511
Anonymous
>>192506
>>192510
Just wondering, what has Ubisoft done that's so bad?
No.192512
Nøpe
>>192511
Broken and unoptimized AAA releases mostly. Released under the idea that people will buy it anyway and they can just patch it after.
Also micro-transactions in these broken and unoptimized games, which is both greedy and insulting.
No.192513
Mr. Stone !zWb42fBPMM
>>192512

And shitty DRM, too.
No.192514
Anonymous
>>192511
Nickel-and-diming consumers with microtransactions to suck out every last cent they can; repeated offenses of rushing games out the door before they're finished, resulting in buggy products that barely function if at all; charging premium for said unfinished products; prettying up trailers and previews so they look superior to what the final product actually is (see Watch_Dogs); anything and everything involving their Uplay service; and shoving tower viewpoints that are required to reveal the map in damn near every game they have. That last one is more of a nitpick, but it's funny how Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch_Dogs all have this same mechanic.

That's just off the top of my head. What's really unfortunate is that the good stuff they do have, such as Valiant Hearts and Rayman, is often overshadowed by the aforementioned incompetence and dodgy business practices.

As for EA, the last EA-published game I played was the sub-par LOTR: Conquest. Such a disappointing game from the same developer that gave us Battlefront.
No.192515
Autonywork !x4vv0ZYuAo
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>>192512
Don't forget that they patched the microtransaction system in Unity before patching gameplay-breaking bugs.
No.192516
Anonymous
>>192515
It's still hilarious given everything else but given everything else but I honestly think it's a matter of those glitches just being easier to fix in the first place.
No.192517
Jumpman
Replies:>>192518
Outside the tone deafness of Battlefield: Hardline, EA has been okay recently.

Garden Warfare is fun.
No.192518
Bunker !OFOzVPOG0g
Replies:>>192520
>>192517
And Recent Dragon Age has seemed to succeed, by not being utter shit.

Course I may be a bit biased since the new game includes the exact mechanics I said it should couple years back on Blistered Thumbs, damn I miss that site.
No.192520
Anonymous
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>>192518
>Recent Dragon Age
>not being utter shit

On what planet
No.192521
Anonymous
>>192520
That Sonic commercial really ties the whole thing together.
No.192522
Bunker !OFOzVPOG0g
>>192520
Bioware "writing" is still going strong I see. Still don't know how they survive being that shitty in writing character interaction. I mean they've actually gotten worse over the years.
No.192523
Anonymous
Replies:>>192526
>>192520
What did you think of the original Origins?
No.192526
Anonymous
Replies:>>192527
>>192523
Overall? It was a pretty okay game. The gameplay itself was serviceable, the writing was generic fantasy stuff that did some fairly unique world-building, and the characters were alright (except Shale, who was amazing). Nothing about it made me fall in love with it (excluding Shale, as she was DLC), but nothing made me hate it either. It's worth playing, at the very least.
No.192527
Anonymous
>>192526
Oh, and the fade was fucking awful. I guess that's a thing to hate about the game, but I always used a mod to skip it after playing through it once.
No.192545
Jumpman
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http://deadspin.com/jerks-dick-kid-out-of-a-ps4-madden-game-for-being-a-lio-1678503444

>A 10-year-old Lions fan named Roman went to Sunday's game in Dallas after his grandma surprised him with tickets. Roman and his family got to the stadium early in order to participate in some of the pregame festivities. One such festivity was a game of musical chairs, which you can see Roman winning in the video above.

>But then, chicanery! Chicanery most foul! Upon realizing that Roman was wearing a Matthew Stafford jersey, the MC called for a re-do of the final round of musical chairs. Roman's adversary, a Cowboys fan, predictably won the re-do round, but the MC promised that both contestants would receive the grand prize: a PS4 copy of Madden.

>But guess what Roman ended up getting? Some major bullshit, that's what! They gave the child the complete first season of the original Batman television show on DVD, and a fuuuuucking Led Zeppelin CD. The hell is a 10-year-old kid supposed to do with that shit? There is literally nothing in this world that a 10-year-old boy values more than video games. Giving one a dumb DVD and a crappy old rock CD as if those things are just as cool as a video game is like trying to tell an adult that a bag full of week-old dog shit is just as valuable as a brick of gold.

Nice move on EA's part.
No.192546
Bunker !OFOzVPOG0g
Just wish they could keep up that image and not walk straight into a yard full of rakes two seconds later.
No.193729
Anonymous
http://kotaku.com/an-updated-list-of-studios-ea-has-bought-and-then-shut-1689498614
No.193730
The Sneaky Tiki
Built on an ancient Studio burial ground EA is the root of much evil.
No.193731
Anonymous
If Maxis is taken out then everyone is fair game.
No.193773
Anonymous
No.194294
Anonymous
Replies:>>194296
Visceral Boss Leaves EA

http://kotaku.com/big-management-shake-up-at-battlefield-hardline-develop-1696510049#
No.194296
The Sneaky Tiki
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>>194294
Boy I hope he makes Space Dead with a small team.
No.194297
Anonymous
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>>194296
Don't you mean Lifeless Cosmos?
No.194298
The Sneaky Tiki
Replies:>>194299
>>194297
OOOOOOOOH THAT'S PERFECTION
No.194299
Anonymous
>>194298

Ohhh Make it Metro in SPACE. With Really REALLY hot "Undead" Mutants.
No.195135
Anonymous
http://www.eastarwars.com/

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No.198201
Anonymous
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Image:144731251600.png(171kB, 942x468)BoycottBattlefront.png
Here are some reasons why you shouldn't support EA and Disney's new Battlefront game this holiday season and how they'll convince you to pay for game with a fraction of the features and content Battlefront II, the ten year predecessor to EA Battlefront, had for almost double the price of a standard AAA new release. But most importantly, this will show you why EA should not be supported and how entrenched they are into gaming journalism and the likeliness that they will make sure to maximize review scores and praise in order to sell their projected 9 million copies among PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Information regarding game content and pricing:

* An example of the content difference between EA Battlefront and Battlefront II: https://imgur.com/YgOmHX3

* EA Battlefront's $50 season pass, which gives no indication of how much content you will receive for $50. The Ultimate Version of the game with all the DLC will cost $120 plus tax: https://archive.is/VYpiT, http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/10/15/star-wars-battlefronts-50-season-pass-already-feels-like-a-ripoff/171821/

* There is also glaring issues with the games balance, playable modes, content and overall gameplay (ground and in-vehicle) feeling unsatisfactory despite visuals and sound being very good on the PC version: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/10/12/5-big-problems-with-the-star-wars-battlefront-beta/

Information regarding bribing reviewers and skewing reviews of their titles:

* EA sends out a questionnaire to those looking to acquire review copies of Battlefront 3 with its likely purpose to "filter the reviews so they’d be handled by people that would be per-determined to give the game a positive score and/or slag off Modern Warfare 3 in the process." https://archive.is/ldNPV

* EA semi-bribes reviewers with $200 cheque mailed with the game "Dante's Inferno": https://archive.is/0rwtu

* EA giving Dragon Age 2 reviewers free swag https://archive.is/0Q34T, http://download.gamestar.de/public/46400/46444/DragonAge_Ritter_Pressegeschenk_Gamestar.mp4

* Also in regards to Dragon Age 2 it was discovered by a Steam community member that an EA employee was boosting the games user rating on Metacritic and there was a possibility that EA staff have done this to other games as well http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1943714.html

* EAs secret YouTube program which pays online reviewers like Machinma $10 per thousand views of videos showing their games. https://archive.is/LJAMU

* EA buying reviewers and gaming media drinks and food plus limo rides for Crysis 3 review launch. "As recent as the release of Crysis 3, there was a controversy involving Electronic Arts communication manager Devin Bennett taking journalists out on a wild night on the town on EA’s dime at the review launch event of Crysis 3 in Frankfurt, Germany." https://archive.is/8rr0n

* Around the time of the above event EA talked about how Crysis 2 will easily get a 90 metacritic score, it ended up around there with an 86 for the PC version https://archive.is/gIH3m

* After failing to hit 90+ and not producing much Crytek would die out a few years later after Crysis 3 and became one of the many publishers linked by EA helping with killing them: https://archive.is/7LXO6

* Later it was shown that EA won metacritics top video game publisher award, http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/02/06/ea-wins-top-publisher-honors-at-metacritic/, and was also voted the worst company in America http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-again/.

* There was also evidence that the Battlefront subreddit was taking bribes from EA and even demoted a mod from the subreddit for calling other moderators out on the controversy https://archive.is/jls1k

[Relevant /gamergatehq/ thread](https://8ch.net/gamergatehq/res/290897.html)

[Relevant /ggrevolt/ thread](https://8ch.net/ggrevolt/res/57924.html)

[Relevant info graphics](https://veuwer.com/i/3a0r,3a0s)
No.198237
T4 was here
>>198201
*ppfffth*
I already knew that.
No.198241
Anonymous
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/11/17/if-star-wars-battlefront-cant-make-60-multiplayer-work-nothing-can/

fucking hell, a question should be should one really pay 60 bucks for a MP only game not if it will work. Answer is no BTW