Few Would Play Star Wars Battlefront Single-Player Campaign, Says EA COO

[thewatergamer]

Well considering 700 people (me included) have voted and 96% of them said that yes they would indeed play a singleplayer campaign I think something is off in your data Peter...Oh wait I forgot your still chasing the "Call of Duty" demographic completely ignoring the fact that CoD fans have...CoD and if your aiming for battlefield fans they have...battlefield...so who are you catering to? Your certainly not catering to fans of Star Wars considering you aren't including space battles or decent dogfighting and also completly removing the classes system in favor of a rip-off of CoD's "kill-streak" system

 

[Do4600]

They add a single player for Battlefield that's always shit and very few people enjoy it, and turn around a say that nobody would play a single player for a game that's basically Battlefield: 194longlongtimeago. They don't even have consistency of bad ideas when it would benefit them to have consistency.

 

[LetalisK]

No big loss here. The previous Battlefront single player campaigns were tacked on garbage anyway.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

If not a campaign, at-least a Galactic Conquest mode (but done better than the previous games). Since it actually gave me a way to kill time and practice offline while still having SOME sort of randomness/variables when I played.

 

[Jeteye]

I think EA wants to really wants to win back that convent title of "Worst Company in America". After losing to Comcast last year they really gotta set up their game to edge them out this year.

 

[Patathatapon]

I find myself dwelling on this a bit. When it comes to a company like EA, I think they shouldn't bother with a single player campaign, simply because it would just suck.

Now, if Valve wanted to make a new Portal game or Half-life that had no single player (Left 4 Dead, DOTA, and TF are their own things), I'd be annoyed. But when it's EA? Your best hope from them is to pour EVERYTHING into one thing and hope it's good.

Well, I make it a rule of thumb not to buy anything from EA anymore since I'm not keen on touching the stove anymore, regardless of what heritage the idea they're using this week is. So I suppose I oughta just shut my mouth.

 

[Kwak]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I see that razor invoked so often, and I have to say I've always found it silly because it assumes that malice and stupidity are mutually exclusive.

Nah, you're missing it's purpose and the context in which it is invoked, which is as a response to someone assuming a deliberate conspiracy of hostile intentions against them.
It's pointing out the truism that it's not necessary for things that appear malicious to be other than short-sightedness and unpreparedness, such as those mistakes that can wreck people's lives that happen in any bureaucratic system daily. Something that affects you negatively wasn't necessarily deliberately engineered to happen that way, someone was just unaware of the negative end results that occur down the chain of events. (or it's just 'not their problem')
But of course, intention to harm others and stupidity can appear together, and often are.
The statement doesn't exclude that, just advises not to assume every car cutting you off in traffic is a psy-ops operation aimed at you. Stupidity is by far the more common explanation, therefore the simplest.

As to Star Wars, the whole reason it has such heart and following is it's mythic appeal of the hero's journey, something which is going to be hard to feel when you're just another grunt along with thousands of others engaged in (eugh) 'teamwork'.

Sounds like just another douchenozzle in a position of power that there really is no logical reason he should be in. The world seems to have so many of those, why is that? I attribute it to a vast conspiracy of an alien hive-species to sap the will to live and resist from the earth's population to make The Takeover and the subsequent Culling relatively easy.

Or maybe it is just that stupidity has become so entwined in the modern world and so cut-off from any of the usual feedback systems that would allow for correction, and it just keeps building year after year and written into laws and policies and we're all becoming trapped and in its net and there's no escape and then we'll all die out because we've dug ourselves into such a hole and the trees will breathe a sigh of relief.
I don't know. I've been a bit depressed lately.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Nah, you're missing it's purpose and the context in which it is invoked, which is as a response to someone assuming a deliberate conspiracy of hostile intentions against them.

But of course, intention to harm others and stupidity can appear together, and often are.
The statement doesn't exclude that, just advises not to assume every car cutting you off in traffic is a psy-ops operation aimed at you. Stupidity is by far the more common explanation, therefore the simplest.

In principle, that's true.
In practice, Occam's Razor is so frequently invoked outside of that context. Mainly as a deterrent against even the notion of hostile intentions, mainly because it makes the person using it sound wiser, or more well-reasoned by juxtaposition.

It's silly to assume everyone is out to get you, but it's equally silly to assume NOBODY is either.
We are our own worst enemy after all.

Sometimes, companies aren't just out of touch with their customers; they really are just trying to rip you off. Whether it's pushing the envelope or just cutting corners.