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[Jimbo_Gee79]

I just finished watching a video today about a game called Archon. It's somewhat similar to chess but has an interesting real time fight mechanic. I was shocked to find out it was produced by EA and had some blurb about it being by gamers for gamers yada yada.....

 

If EA want to rescue their reputation they need to remake games like this instead of buying out companies and destroying them. I found the game to look very enjoyable and with a major update could prove to be a big hitter.  They seemed to be a good company way back when until they seemed to become possesed by the devil known as the American dollar.

 

Check it out let me know what you think.

[KroganChiken]

I think you right but...!

 

You have forgotten a simple truth: EA don't want a good reputation but only $$$$!!!

[Garryydde]

EA were never a good company.

[Handsome Jack]

EA should die out and collapse.

[metatheurgist]

Archon is one of my all time favourite games.

This is the Electronic Arts I know:



This is the demon that took over it's body.

[Br3admax]

That slogan tho.

[bEVEsthda]

I dunno, but it might be that EA can't remake Archon, as an action-formula, console button-masher, because they might not have the rights to Archon.

Because EA didn't create Archon. They published it.

[Riven326]

I would say Ubisoft has done far worse this gen.

[Jstatham1227]

[SlottsMachine]

EA does good work the sales show that. 

[LinksOcarina]

I should point out that the Electronic Art's of old is one of the reasons why a lot of game studio's have died out.

 

Plus don't forget the spouse letter from 2003....those pesky employees looking for their rights. At least it's not like today where they give severence packages and maternity leave. God forbid you need to of course.

 

 

In all honesty, EA get's a lot more flak than it deserves most of the time, so I don't rightfully understand that mentality that people have regarding the company.

[o Ventus]

I would say Ubisoft has done far worse this gen.

 

I would say Ubisoft has always been worse. EA is bad, but Ubisoft had DRM that would literally melt your HDDs.

[Cyonan]

I should point out that the Electronic Art's of old is one of the reasons why a lot of game studio's have died out.

 

Plus don't forget the spouse letter from 2003....those pesky employees looking for their rights. At least it's not like today where they give severence packages and maternity leave. God forbid you need to of course.

 

 

In all honesty, EA get's a lot more flak than it deserves most of the time, so I don't rightfully understand that mentality that people have regarding the company.

 

I think that in a lot of cases people immediately like to assume the worst, or assume that everything they don't like that a developer does is because "EA told them to do it". I'm sure EA tells them quite a bit, but I'm also sure they aren't sitting there telling them that they have to limit the number of abilities in DA:I to 8 because reasons.

 

On the other hand, EA has done a lot to earn its reputation. People don't just assume the worst about them because they thought it seemed like fun at the time.

 

If EA wants people to stop giving them flak all the time, then a lot of it is on them to repair their reputation with hardcore gamers.

[mybudgee]

Ah, yes... "Hard-core Gamers"

 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Ah, yes... "Hard-core Gamers"

 

 

/the people in RPG-Codex.

Also gamers who only play 20th century games.

[Cyonan]

Ah, yes... "Hard-core Gamers"

 

 

You lose points because it wasn't the Turian councilor dismissing these claims.

[Angry_Elcor]

But isn't that just perpetuating a bad dye job?

[Lunch Box1912]

Evil has roots?

[Captain Obvious]

Oh, EA...

 

[o Ventus]

Evil has roots?

 

The love of money?

[Farangbaa]

If EA wants people to stop giving them flak all the time, then a lot of it is on them to repair their reputation with hardcore gamers.

Yeah: how about no?

I've been gaming since I was 3 years old, started out on a PC without a harddisk and those big ass floppies you could bend to your hearts desire... and they;d still work. I could be called a hardcore gamer in every definition, both in time spent on games as well as in intensity. (Hell, even in competitiveness. I've played DotA, very seriously)

But I refuse to call myself a hardcore gamer. Because hardcore gamers are ruining gaming.

'Hardcore gamers' have these idiotic ideas about how a game should be, and they go nuts if it isn't like that picture perfect thing they designed in their mind.

If you're looking for an example of this: go the Obsidian forums. Check the Pillars of Eternity section. It's like a copy of the DA:I forums after release. Game's different in every possible way, complaints are almost identical.

With every game's release, I move farther away from identifying with hardcore gamers. They don't want better games. They just want games they can play in their own nerd clique. They don't want their hobby to become big, they want to be different.

They are like those guys who only like bands that are 'underground' *puke*

[Geth Supremacy]

gamers love to whine about EA...except while doing it they are throwing money hand over fist to them.  Nothing will change.

 

You can whine all you want, but the fact of the matter is when you pre ordered that game or paid your $60 $70 $120 you gave it your approval and said give me more!  Your money is your real voice.  I will be speaking clearly from here on out.  I might still buy these games, but it will be out of a bargain bin.

[SlottsMachine]

Softcore gamers should be a part of the equation too.

 

True enough. A balance needs to be found, not either or. Most of us understand that it is a business and EA is in it to make money. The problem in only appealing to the masses is that most of there games have a generic sameness to them even if each specfic game is not bad per se.