They have put a lot of good game companies out of work. Westwood being one of them.lostclause said:
Poll: EA being friendly?
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I'll look it up on wikipedia. I look at what EA has published. Lots of IP, but alot of... terrible stuff they threw on the market. Plus, when I think of EA, sims comes to mind. Sims creeps the hell out of me... I only like Activision for the Infinity Ward COD games. I have yet to find any posts be ph3onix, but i think i will in time.lostclause said:
It's a trap. The only thing separating EA from Dr. Doom is that they're too cheap to pay for a giant fortress of evil.
They just have some good PR people, that's all.
One reason people hate EA is they have a tendency of buying talent and/or quality licenses and then ruining them. There was even that news thing where they turned down a bright-eyed MMA guy who wanted to make a game about Mixed Martial Arts. Then, after the success of that one UFC game, EA decided to jump on the bandwagon (after somebody ELSE had already done the hard work of proving it to be a viable market) and attempted to buy the license from the guy they previously had contemptuously shot down. The fellow was not amused with EA.
They just have some good PR people, that's all.
One reason people hate EA is they have a tendency of buying talent and/or quality licenses and then ruining them. There was even that news thing where they turned down a bright-eyed MMA guy who wanted to make a game about Mixed Martial Arts. Then, after the success of that one UFC game, EA decided to jump on the bandwagon (after somebody ELSE had already done the hard work of proving it to be a viable market) and attempted to buy the license from the guy they previously had contemptuously shot down. The fellow was not amused with EA.
Looking them up the only thing I see by them that I know about is command and conquer. Maybe they've had some hidden gems but see the problem. Besides they didn't die, they just went over to petroglyph, who brought us the Empire at war games which were good even if the ground combat was a bit slow (something they did a good job of fixing in the expansion). So I see no great loss.Kstreitenfeld said:
They do have some bad games like the mediocore harry potter games but there's always some good ones. I don't like the sims either (tend to lose interest after 10 minutes) but I can kinda understand it's appeal.Hail Fire 998 said:
Oh no, sims does not bore me. It outright creeps me out. I see the appeal, but its still unnerving.lostclause said:
Activision is the new EA. As for EA... it seems like they've decided to try the Valve model out for the time being. I'm skeptical, but I'm hoping it sticks to some degree.
People always seem to complain when a company sets out to earn more money. The whole point of a business is to earn a profit. It does not make them monsters, they are not demons, they are not EVIL. They are doing what they do because they need to earn cash to survive and to pay their workers. When a video game company creates a game they try to please as many of their customers as possible. If their customer is happy they're more likely to make more purchases.
Now I know EA doesn't make the best games in the world but some of them are still fun even if only for a short time. The fact that EA's doing a number of "good deeds" does have to do with PR yes... but so what? What do the motives matter if something good comes out of it?
Now I know EA doesn't make the best games in the world but some of them are still fun even if only for a short time. The fact that EA's doing a number of "good deeds" does have to do with PR yes... but so what? What do the motives matter if something good comes out of it?
That and Nox which was a really underrated hack n slash rpg much like Diablo (came out after the first and before the second).Hail Fire 998 said:
Otherwise C&C was good enough by itself to call Westwood an amazing company.
The Apocalypse is near. EA is the vanguard of our destruction. We have no chance to survive make our time. :V
Either that OR someone secretly killed off EA's board of directors and replaced them with nice clones of them....
Either that OR someone secretly killed off EA's board of directors and replaced them with nice clones of them....
I think you misquoted there, that wasn't hail fire, it was me. I''m not disputing that C&C was good, especially for its time, but when you see the list of their games only 2 successes (and as you say, Nox was under rated)? Some might consider dune another since it started the RTS fad but they had 20 projects! Frankly it's no surprise that they were forced to take shelter under EA's wing as petroglyph as having few great successes in such a long time would have proven quite expensive. Don't look on it as a EA imperialism but giving these guys a second chance to shine, as they indeed did with EAW.Kstreitenfeld said:
I might go too far now, but I think EA gives the Wii better support then Nintendo themselfs. I like their WM+ games, good ports (FIFA 09 for example) and many exclusive games like Boom Blox, Skate it (DS) or the coming Dead Space and NFS:Nitro.
And to finish you guys off : EA published Henry Hatsworth.
If you ask me, Activision is going to be the next "evil company"...
And to finish you guys off : EA published Henry Hatsworth.
If you ask me, Activision is going to be the next "evil company"...
HardRockSamurai said:
I think they are evil greedy bastards who do whatever it takes to make money...and that they have finally realized that their reputation is costing them money. So they are trying to change it to make more money. That's all.
Oh and about the helping gay's thing: It bugs me that people refer to anti-homosexual sentiment in general as homophobia. If I found out there was some guy on XBOX live who was having sex with his sister, and I was a jerk who delighted in attacking people who disgust me, I would torment him just because it disgusts me- not because I am afraid of him.
A lot of the time, people attack gay's not because they are afraid of them, but because the gays disgust them. Two different things. Using homophobia as a blanket term to refer to anti-homosexuality is inaccurate. People don't attack Furries because of Furryphobia. They attack Furries because of Furry Disgust. And no, being afraid of homosexuals is not the only reason why homosexuality would disgust them. Anymore than being afraid of furries is the only reason they would disgust people.
We need to teach people that the shouldn't cause pain and anguish for fun, ever, no matter what other people are doing-and that you only have a right to interfere with someone else's life when they are infringing on the rights/well being of others.
Pretty much this.Dys said:
A few years back they had a terrible rep for being the great evil devourer of good game studios.
after that there was a period that they genuinely seemed to have turned over a new leaf and while not perfect, but not so bad either.
Which they stomped on afterwards by the whole DRM/limited installs lunacy*, putting them right back to square one.
They seem to be trying to be good again, but that only leaves me thinking what great work of evil they're softenening us up for next.
(*i can understand them wanting to do something about piracy, but that doesn't excuse them doing something that has categorically failed at preventing piracy and instead hurts untold numbers of paying customers instead)