Volourn wrote...
JE was reviewed very well, actually. Ratings were not the issue. It even sold decently just not the usual BIO numbers.
Yeah, DA2 "sold decently" too. And even then, on the backbones of DA:O.
DA2 is making a profit. It was relatively cheap to make, and sold 1mil+ in less than 2 weeks. The game is profitable.
Profitable? Maybe more along the lines of broke even... maybe. But if you think rushed, cheap, poorly made games that can profit off of nickels and dimes is a good thing that tells me something about you.
DA2 didn't sell 1mil+ IN TWO WEEKS, much less within 2 weeks. 2 week sales were 933K across all platforms (close, but not close enough). And what sales it has it earned on the merits of its predecessor's success fueling pre-orders. Fat chance that tactic is going to work for DA3.
It's funny because DA:O had better week 7 sales than DA2's week 2 sales.
The docs are still in charge of BIO along with the EA board of directors which the docs are sitting on.
Who are these "docs"? The Department of Child Safety?
Laidlaw may not have been THE LD on DA1 but he was A LD on DA1. This is undisputable fact.
I'm disputing it; therefore, it's disputiable. Just one more thing you're wrong about. Laidlaw ported it to consoles. That is it. He didn't design anything because the game was already finished. He put the little button icons on the bottom of consoler's screens. Maybe that's when he got the awesome button idea.
You can no more have two lead designers than you can have two presidents holding office simultaneously. Sure, you could give a guy a title, but only one man is making the final decsions. You're getting desperate (downright lying) to claim Laidlaw was the LD for DA1. Brent Knowles was the LD, alpha male, the Boss, the head Honcho, the King, if you must, of DA:O developement and he quit rather than work on subpar junk. I want to shake that man's hand.
Even if another DA title is never release I still win. Even if BIO folds up I still win. I bought a game and I enjoyed it. That's winning. Plenty of other games out there. I survived 15 years playing games w/o BIo exisiting, and I've played plenty of non BIO games I've enjoyed so no worries at all for me. *shrug*
Within the context of this thread that is pure Losing. You would not be participating in this conversation in Laidlaw's [shoddy] defense if you actually thought that.
Is that an admission of defeat? Is this how prideful people concede defeat since their egos are too big to admit it like a man?
You guys are claiming that EA spent a billion dolalrs hoping BIO would fail. And, then spent another 200mil hopeing SW MMO would fail. You guys know nothing about EA's motives.
LMAO
No, I believe they spent alot of money hoping that Bioware would sprinkle some RPG awesome sauce they've been known for on an MMO that can compete with WOW. A successful MMOs is where the real money is at. Anything else is just icing on the cake.
It worked for the beginner island in Age of Conan. Imagine an entire game that played like that based in the SW universe. Heavy risk...
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