UrkOfGreyhawk wrote...
I don't think it's fair to say Bio is mad at us. It would be more accurate to say, "Bioware isn't satisfied with it's fanbase any more".
They've decided there aren't enough of us. They figure they can broaden their appeal and make more money by dumbing the games down. I think this is a stupid strategy, but it's their call.
Personally I no longer care for the newer Bio games and I'm not going to buy them any more. They stink of EA now... cheap and just kinda dumb. But I can still enjoy the classic stuff.
On a side note... If ya'll wanna speak Ghetto that's fine. Personally I think it's kind of weak, but maybe I'm just bitter because I've invested so much time and energy learning how to speak and spell in English. Anyway, you have the right to express yourself any way you want but please stop swearing. It's a TOS violation and we do have kids in here.
Most studios are in "Desperate for survival" mode at this point. NPD sales have been showing month after month of drops, one month this year had sales so low the closest comparable year was 2006. They dug themselves into a hole playing the "Me too!" game, and generating game after game that's almost interchangable with the previous.
I mean seriously, what were the big announcements at E3? Halo 7 through 9? Call of Duty 9? TES 6? The industry is just rereleasing the same few games over and over.
Bioware's just a victim of the process. EA needs to find some way to keep it's shareholders happy, and their solution is to try and copy someone else's successes and try to appeal to as many people as humanly possible. That's why you here about Call of Duty every other interview, and why publishers are claiming the only game that can be made is a Shooter. They've spent the last 5-7 years trying to stamp out creativity in favor of imitating some else's success, and now they suddenly find they can't move all of these "Me too!!!" products.
They can't go into a boardroom and suggest the solution is to take risks on new IP's and different genres, a company that can't sell it's product isn't willing to listen to the word "Risk", even in the entertainment industry. So instead you get "Well...Call of Duty sold well, so many we should just make lots of that!".
I strongly suspect this is going to turn *really* ugly soon. The only thing that's saved this year from being purely negative, and massive double digit drops, is Call of Duty. I doubt the next generation of console's chances, because they now lack the key component to selling a new generation: Games. PS2 dd well because it was leading in with Final Fantasy 7, Blood Omen, Metal Gear, and Resident Evil. X-box 360 did well because it was leading in with Halo and Fable. PS3 was slow out of the gates because it didn't have a solid lead in, only Metal Gear.
There's nothing comparable out there now. I seriously doubt people are going to pay for a new console to play the exact same games they've been playing for the last 5 years.
So if Bioware is mad at anyone, I doubt *very* highly it's their fans. People go into the Gaming Industry because they want to make great games, not because they want to copy someone else's Nth sequel.
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