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[ElitePinecone]

Blair Brown wrote...

XM-417 wrote...

How's the koala taking to the 'deployment'?.

He's not deployed yet, but will be in the sprint coming up, we have high hopes for him. 

Is it a parachute entry? 

Because drop bears can be... dangerous.

[Angrywolves]

I presume you've discussed the alleged box art of DAI that has shown up on certain websites. A hoax or freal. It looks like an old Morrigan picture to me.shrugs.

[King Cousland]

Angrywolves wrote...

I presume you've discussed the alleged box art of DAI that has shown up on certain websites. A hoax or freal. It looks like an old Morrigan picture to me.shrugs.

Do you have a link please? I can't seem to find anything. 

[Angrywolves]

Go to gamefaqs and type in dragon age inquisition and you can look at what they and Gamespot claim is the box art for DAI.

[Allan Schumacher]

It's on the PS3 page, and it is fake.

[DragonMage95]

King Cousland wrote...

Angrywolves wrote...

I presume you've discussed the alleged box art of DAI that has shown up on certain websites. A hoax or freal. It looks like an old Morrigan picture to me.shrugs.

Do you have a link please? I can't seem to find anything. 

http://www.gamefaqs....uisition/images  Here it is,and it's fake, the cover is concept art of Morrigan from DAO.

[Spedfrom]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

It's on the PS3 page, and it is fake.

It does look fake. And I think DA3 is going to be released on next-gen platforms anyway. Right Allan?

[ShaggyWolf]

hoorayforicecream wrote...

I've been in the industry for many years. I've seen (and been in) my share of layoffs, and I'll be the first to say that EA is hardly alone. Everyone does it all the time. The game industry is very volatile, and it honestly kinda sucks. But it isn't because EA does it all the time. Everyone does it all the time. The last time EA had major company-wide layoffs was 2009, when the company lost over a billion dollars. To provide some context, within the past two years or so we've seen THQ and all of its studios go under, LucasArts get shuttered, and Activision close RedOctane, Luxoflux, Budcat, 7 Studios, and Bizarre Creations. Square-Enix also just recently downsized a large number of their Los Angeles office, and even Square-Enix's president is stepping down and being replaced.

I've worked for an indie studio that was forced to lay off workers because our publisher didn't renew our contract, and I've worked for publisher-owned studio that simply didn't have the money to keep paying for the entire team to stay around after the game launched. Sometimes employees of those publishers get shuffled to other studios. Sometimes they quit and strike out on their own. Sometimes they just get hired by another studio. Many times, they get laid off and find work elsewhere.

I'll admit there's a lot of things that happen in the business world that are above me, but I do know that EA does a lot of things that I don't like, and I know that other publishers and development studios manage their business differently and generally produce more satisfactory titles, I would assume, as a result of their different approach.

This is mostly fictional. I've worked for many different publishers (and studios), and they're really not that different. My industry friends have worked for even more than that. EA's titles are about as satisfactory as most other publicly traded publishers' titles. There are a handful of outlier developers/publishers that do buck the trend, but they are almost all privately owned and thus not legally bound to do their best to get their shareholders the best return they can.

Well, I appreciate your insight. This is a perspective I haven't really heard from before, and it certainly does change my perception of this whole situation.

Upsettingshorts wrote...

Also confirmation bias. Given a pre-existing dislike for EA, an individual is more likely to remember instances the confirm that perception. Layoff news may not stick with such an individual, but EA layoffs would, and as such contribute to the belief that EA lays off people at a unique or unprecedented rate. This also goes for DLC, DRM, pre-order bonuses, etc. That isn't to say EA does not do those things, but their relative frequency when compared with other companies can be perceived as being greater.

That's not a criticism of the individual, it's just a common error in human cognition that can happen with anyone about anything.

And this is very true. Looking back, my behavior in my last few posts is lacking in intelligent thought.  I'll try to make sure I put my biases aside and think in the future, and remember patience, instead of skipping right to blowing my fuse at the first sign of bad news.

Sorry I came off as a raging hostile moron, everyone. I'll stop derailing this thread now.

[Mummy22kids]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Blair Brown wrote...

XM-417 wrote...

How's the koala taking to the 'deployment'?.

He's not deployed yet, but will be in the sprint coming up, we have high hopes for him. 

Is it a parachute entry? 

Because drop bears can be... dangerous.

DA:I PC will be a Koala- Semi-confirmed rumour.

[hahagirl727]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

It's on the PS3 page, and it is fake.

:crying::crying:.. Now I am off to watch tribute videos and read fanfiction to numb the pain (jk) 

[Commander Kurt]

I'll see if I can find something worth reposting...

Valadras21 wrote...

Sorry I came off as a raging hostile moron, everyone. I'll stop derailing this thread now.

FYI, we use different scales here. "Raging hostile moron" looks to be way out of your league.

Allan Schumacher wrote...

EDIT: Though this is grossly off topic. If you want to carry on the discussion feel free to start up a thread in off topic and let me know about.

Cheater... I'm much to lazy to start a thread, but just know that I had some arguments that would blow you away.

[serenai]

Good luck, Ryan.. we will miss you <3




PatrickWeekes:
Just so you all know. I am NEVER going to get FerelDEN/FerelDAN right. So when DA3 ships with that done wrong, that was me.

PatrickWeekes:
And that's after @bellecanto114 and the editing team catch like 98% of the times I do it wrong.

Allan Schumacher:
Learning ANT for my DA Week #DA3 #Masochist

Allan Schumacher:
Something else completely not relevant to #DA3 because I am a mean. Though it actually was work related! pic.twitter.com/yb87LqBEB2

https://pbs.twimg.co...AwyRt.jpg:large

Blair Brown:
@AllanSchumacher it actually is DA3 related you'll find out how next week, muhuhahahaha, us producers and our plans.

Allan Schumacher:
@BioWareBlair Yeah, but THEY didn't know that! Nor do I even fully understand what you producer types are up to!

Blair Brown:
Well, I made my first appearance in a game news article, that's pretty cool

Allan Schumacher:
@BioWareBlair Link!

Blair Brown:
@AllanSchumacher http://www.examiner....tails-criticism

Allan Schumacher:
@BioWareBlair Bwaahaha. They appear to be itching for a soundbite. Best I have done is Reddit. Is that better or worse than Examiner?!

Modifié par serenai, 12 avril 2013 - 06:29 .

[ElitePinecone]

serenai wrote...

Blair Brown:
@AllanSchumacher http://www.examiner....tails-criticism

Allan Schumacher:
@BioWareBlair Bwaahaha. They appear to be itching for a soundbite. Best I have done is Reddit. Is that better or worse than Examiner?!

I've seen the Examiner pop up so many times, and it's usually the most ridiculous, contrived, link-bait-y 'journalism'. They put random game titles in the headlines of unrelated stories, report blatantly untrue information and don't bother with fact-checking. 

Though, I guess, congrats Blair. 

[Commander Kurt]

serenai wrote...


Allan Schumacher:
Something else completely not relevant to #DA3 because I am a mean. Though it actually was work related! pic.twitter.com/yb87LqBEB2

https://pbs.twimg.co...AwyRt.jpg:large

Blair Brown:
@AllanSchumacher it actually is DA3 related you'll find out how next week, muhuhahahaha, us producers and our plans.

Allan Schumacher:
@BioWareBlair Yeah, but THEY didn't know that! Nor do I even fully understand what you producer types are up to!

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with this;

Jocelyn Legault‏@jocelynlegault
Swedish researchers invent an "invisible bike helmet" http://www.upworthy....ve?g=2&c=ufb1 … (cc @llheb )

"Hide helmet"-toggle semi-confirmed for DA:I...

[Sir George Parr]

Spedfrom wrote...

So... the koala is DA3 and the deployment is the reveal of the game where we will be shown, not told. Right?

koala is a component model and an architecture description language. unless i've read the tea leaves incorrectly?.Maybe Blair Brown can put me right or wrong on this as the case maybe.

Furious extrapolation v2.0

Modifié par XM-417, 12 avril 2013 - 01:31 .

[azarhal]

serenai wrote...

Blair Brown:
Well, I made my first appearance in a game news article, that's pretty cool

Blair Brown:
@AllanSchumacher http://www.examiner....tails-criticism

Did the Examiner really created a "newsbit" out of a forum comment? It's not the first time that a BioDev warn us about buying anchors so we are firmly attached once they started revealing stuff. Although, it might be the only thing they understood out of all the stuff that get posted here, hmmm.

Also, Allan is learning ANT? As in Apache ANT? Poor guy...

[Commander Kurt]

azarhal wrote...

serenai wrote...

Blair Brown:
Well, I made my first appearance in a game news article, that's pretty cool

Blair Brown:
@AllanSchumacher http://www.examiner....tails-criticism

Did the Examiner really created a "newsbit" out of a forum comment? It's not the first time that a BioDev warn us about buying anchors so we are firmly attached once they started revealing stuff. Although, it might be the only thing they understood out of all the stuff that get posted here, hmmm.

Oh, that is so sad...  I didn't read it and just assumed it was an interview and, well, that it was actually a game news article.

[Pelican34]

On to 200 pages!!!!

[Fast Jimmy]

Pelican34 wrote...

On to 200 pages!!!!

...and beyond!

[ElitePinecone]

Mike Laidlaw ‏@Mike_Laidlaw
Excited to go in Monday and see what creative "DA Week" projects were developed while I was away. I hear rumors of neat things.

Sounds like DA week happened this week. Hopefully someday we can see some of the ideas.

[Degenerate Rakia Time]

this is getting depressing, come on Bioware show us something, i'd even settle for 1/36th of a blurry screenshot 

Modifié par Rakia Time, 12 avril 2013 - 03:10 .

[Fast Jimmy]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Mike Laidlaw ‏@Mike_Laidlaw
Excited to go in Monday and see what creative "DA Week" projects were developed while I was away. I hear rumors of neat things.

Sounds like DA week happened this week. Hopefully someday we can see some of the ideas.

Hmmmm... am I alone in thinking that every week in the Bioware Dragon Age department is DA Week...?

[ElitePinecone]

It's a special thing where they split into teams and spend time working on interesting/quirky/useful ideas or tools that might be polished and make it into the game.

They had a similar one last year.

[Robeus]

expect something in May