/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>>192518
>Recent Dragon Age
>not being utter shit

On what planet

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.

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

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