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Battlefield Bad Company mixed in with EA slagging
dennis:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 13 Aug 2008, 12:04 ---I think it's pretty obvious Harmonix operates by and large on their own accord, regardless of EA/MTV, whose influence comes in the form of funding and DLC. There's less ads in Rock Band(read: none) than there are in Guitar Hero 3(read: every single stage has some sort of branding, as do many of the guitars). I think it's also pretty obvious Black Box does not operate of their own accord since they have basically been a shovelware developer for EA for the last 5 years until skate. came out.
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My point still stands. Also, Black Box didn't become independent until 2005. That is after most of their "shovelware" came out and before Skate came out. Obviously, they still handle the NFS franchise, so they still have to make games for it and I don't think I'm speculating any more than you are when I say that perhaps they give NFS games a low priority and fewer resources than Skate?
clockworkjames:
--- Quote ---What the fuck is up with EA only supporting awesome games for a year or two before leaving them to root unsupported and unloved :(
The SSX series are possibly some of the best sports titles ever to come to console and even now they are in a league of their own but the most recent addition of "On tour" had no online play and was pish. SSX3 however had amazing online play and is now unsupported. Servers offline, slopes closed.
I didn't spend the best part of 20 months of my youth making some awesome friends from all over Europe and getting a shit hot reputation, climbing my way to the top of every race score board with my partner in crime "Skins-noTHC" the stoner gamepad jockey from Holland just to log on one day and find it was all for nothing.
This got me thinking to todays titles, EA's website shows no trace of these awesome games but what other awesome games have they stopped patching and improving and even making, C&C and Battlefield for example, C&C has got better but battlefield has gotten much worse and when was the last time BF2 got patched? Have they given up on all the glitches and expansion packs? Has this cash cow been milked for all it is worth and left to rot? We need to play shitty BF2142 now? No thanks.
How much longer will CoD2 and 4 be supported? What about burnout takedown and revenge? They are both so much more awesome than paradise. How much content? When will console servers go down like so many others? Do we just enjoy it while it lasts then bury these awesome titles under newer sub-par pish?
tl;dr FUCK YOU EA.
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A blog I made a while back.
Also I am looking at buying Battlefield 2: The Complete Edition because I lost my installers and cannot be assed finding them, only had core and special forces anyways. God I feel like such a slut.
Ozymandias:
(CoD isn't even an EA franchise)
I don't know how NFS can't be classified as shovelware. It wasn't Black Box's franchise to begin with, it was just passed off to them. They made 8 titles in 6 years for it. Just because it turns out that they're also good developers doesn't mean that wasn't how EA treated them and used them.
It really isn't far to condemn a company for not supporting games after a while. If you can find a non-Blizzard company that still patches their games after 3 or 4 years, then you've found Valve(maybe) and that's it.
clockworkjames:
Why did I think CoD was EA? Maybe I meant BF2 or something.
Don't drink and blog kids.
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: clockworkjames on 19 Aug 2008, 11:57 ---Don't blog, kids.
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