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[MushroomMagic]

How would you feel? 

[Allan Schumacher]

How come people always make Call of Duty references with respect to EA decisions?

[Allan Schumacher]

Naughty Bear wrote...

Allan Schumacher wrote...

How come people always make Call of Duty references with respect to EA decisions?

Because just like CoD, EA also churns out the same yearly crap. Need For Speed, Fifa and every known sports game and we are all aware or should be that EA strives to get the CoD sales. Hence why every remake or game thy produce most likely contains mindless combat in some form or shape.

Or they forgot EA does not make CoD.

I think if we're honest with ourselves, though, the only reason why we wouldn't like soemthing like this is because it's not specifically the type of game WE want to play.

It's hard to fault Activision for pressing on the Call of Duty games, since they keep breaking sales records.  At what point do people step back and go "Activision is giving their customers exactly what they want, and the customers demonstrate this buy purchasing the game?"

Yes, EA does it with their sports games in particular.  I'll never understand the big deal, though, because a game like FIFA is very, very popular and if I don't feel there's significant change I just don't buy a particular version.  The last COD I bought was the first Modern Warfare, and the last sports game I picked up was NCAA Football last year.  I skipped out on all the sports games this year because they don't interest me enough.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 19 octobre 2012 - 07:16 .

[Allan Schumacher]

Fast Jimmy wrote...

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Yes, they also made Mirror's Edge, my apologies. It came out in 2008, after the studio itself was shutdown.

What exactly are you talking about with this?

DICE Canada was closed, but I think your twisting DICE into being "all but shutdown" is a very misleading statement.

[Allan Schumacher]

From the time EA beca e the largest share holder of DICE back in 2003 until they completed a complete buy out of the entire company, DICE Canada, DICE New York and the former DICE headquarters in Gothenberg were all shut down. They relocated to a Stockholm headquarters, but the only games they have published besides their Battlefield IP is Mirror's Edge. I'm just saying since EA's involvement with the company, they have gone from a growing and diverse developer

"Diverse" developer? I suppose people were all over the Swedish Touring Car Championship games and their Pinball games?

They knocked the ball out of the park with BF1942, though I'd be surprised how many people even heard of the other games in their library. Unless maybe their wikipedia entry is missing something?

[Allan Schumacher]

Bethesda does not own Obsidian.

[Allan Schumacher]

I'm not an expert on DICE as a company. In my two 500+ word posts on page 2, I barely mentioned them as one of three developers that have become a cautionary tale in the gaming world (again, the amount of truth attached to it is a little irrelevant, what is relevant is that is how they are perceived, which is answering your original question of why people think EA is in the business of CoD style game making).

I was really hoping some of my other ideas or suggestions would gain traction, rather than the timeline of one individual developer I mentioned in passing.

No but you did, and since DICE is the closest thing to an EA company that makes "COD games" coupled with some inherent skepticism that it was simply added in an attempt to try to add to the argument by trying to pad yoru examples, it really stuck out for me. Maybe I'm just paying it forward since my University Profs always nailed me for doing the same thing, but it's what stuck out.

Origins is one that I was disappointed about too (and Westwood), and EA certainly seemed to have the moniker "devourer of companies" in the late 90s. Though neither of those companies serve the "EA wants all games to be Call of Duty" mantra very well.  The DICE one just seemed to be the best analogue.

the amount of truth attached to it is a little irrelevant, what is relevant is that is how they are perceived

I don't know, determining whether or not the perception is valid seems pretty important to me. People have shown that they're more than willing to see what they want to see (Sid Meier's 2010 GDC keynote described gamers as paranoid in that they typically assume bad things mean the game is out to get them. Perhaps this carries over into more than just their gaming perceptions?) though, so I'll agree with you in that assessment.


I suppose I should have been clearer and just straight up said "Why do people always equate EA with an Activision product?" since that's all I was really asking.


Interesting things regarding Garriott is his fascination with persistent online gaming. His new company he founded is, in his own words, effectively Ultima Online II. Although many point to the shots at EA within Ultima VII, I find it baffling that Garriott would decide to sell the company to EA if those perceived shots are actually true.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 20 octobre 2012 - 09:53 .