Recent content by Sorryflip

I'm not claiming they're going to shut Bioware down. However I am hearing about lay offs, several veteran developers leaving. SWTOR which was apperantly released too early, the microtransaction model is going to cost allot of fun if you look at EA CEO's views upon that. Changes in Dragon Age...

Well I never said Bioware games are now shit. I said that I see the same thing happening to Bioware, that happened to many studios before which are mentioned in this thread.

While shitty games will get made without EA, imo EA is taking gaming in the wrong direction. Shittier games will be made with. I judge EA on their actions, facts I have collected do not look good. Does that make me biased?

No I think you miss my point, at the time when virgin sold westwood to EA Westwood seemed to be looking great. EA Even admit they screwed up. Westwood could've screwed up sure everyone can, but they didn't even get the chance to since EA screwed it up for them. They could've succeeded on...

I only mentioned the 5 year contract because I was quoting this: Also keep in mind those are personal contracts not 1 big contract for the entire studio. My point is look at the studios EA took over, how many still produce quality games today? EA even admit they screwed up...

Not sure if I understand your question but if you mean what happened to Westwood studios? Westwood Studios was a video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Westwood Associates and was renamed Westwood Studios when it merged...

If you look at the actual source of the wiki article: http://money.cnn.com/1998/08/17/life/q_ea/ You can read that the founders of Westwood both signed a 5 year contract. So no they did not abandon ship. As to why many long-time employees were quitting, I think this article tells enough...

I noticed you did reference to him, it really frustrated me aswell. I mean really, is it so hard to use your brains? Or is your bloodstream focused on something else that you have to jump infront of the saber again and again and again just because she is a girl and girls cant protect themselves...

Thank you! Finaly someone that understands the post. This thread was making me sad...

This article was a great read thanks. I agree and would love to see game developers take a more creative direction in the genre and focus on making great games. However big productions will almost always try to widen up their "player base" as much as possible even in other art/entertainment...

They don't care about their reputation or releasing good games they only care about money. What they do is leech of the reputation of others. They buy up companies with good reputations like bioware for example, then they proceed to rush their project releasing an unfinished game which still...

NEVER underestimate EA's ability to fuck something up. Remember that they're still working for EA, which destroys talent.