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- Shawn4168, on 05/16/2008, -2/+96Note to EA...just stop.
- michaelphw, on 05/16/2008, -4/+59I dunno if I want EA to make more games.
- toxicityj, on 05/16/2008, -3/+54EA, free westwood and maxis. PLEASE.
- AnthonyC, on 05/16/2008, -1/+51They should be focused on quality over quantity. All of their sports franchises have grown stale. Last year's football games were had some terrible bugs that prevented them from even being playable, in my opinion. Fix that stuff.
- Ducksa, on 05/16/2008, -3/+50Their integration of advertising into games has left a sour taste in my mouth.
- dajuggernaut, on 05/16/2008, -0/+24EA is nothing more than a software sweatshop
- AzzX, on 05/16/2008, -5/+26AzzX to EA:
Don't buy Valve! I don't care what else you do, just not this!!!!!! - AnimeCwboy, on 05/16/2008, -1/+21EA Challenge Nothing, Buy Everything
- galvanize, on 05/16/2008, -2/+21EA is going the way of the major movie studios... consolidation all across the board. Watered down versions of spin-offs and sequels that stifle creativity and innovation.
DOWN WITH EA! - Bornhuetter, on 05/16/2008, -1/+18Its really depressing remembering all the great studios that were around in the 90's and seeing how EA has bought so many of them out. I guess it's no surprise that releasing the same crappy sports sims every year makes more profits than taking risks on making truly innovative games.
- zcrazed1, on 05/16/2008, -1/+15If we allow EA to buy up everything it would mean the end of modern gaming as we know it. It'd be a monopoly of over priced chop house games.
- slayerab, on 05/16/2008, -2/+15Don't buy Rockstar either!
- tumbler360, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12As long as EA continues to make money why would they listen to gamers? That horrible excuse for a game called Army of Two sold 800k copies? That couldn't have cost very much to make but people still buy that crap. They still Buy madden every year also, and ever other ea sports title they churn out.
If you want EA to get better or stop altogether just stop buying their games. It's really that simple. Don't buy anything that comes from them. - hartley, on 05/16/2008, -0/+12No, I hate EA because their games suck.
Your assumption that the majority of gamers are driven by a few drops of pixelated blood shows that you are really the fool.
Theres one reason EA is number 1.
Sports... - mikephimikephi, on 05/16/2008, -1/+12Several iterations of their EA-Sports franchises have been so similar that in this day and age, they could probably have been released as a patch over XboxLive / PlaystationNetwork.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -5/+16EA is the worst thing to happen to the video game industry. They've already started sucking the soul out of the art, watch them tear it down completely.
- SamuelHenderson, on 05/16/2008, -0/+10Seconded.
It's interesting to see how Maxis went from turning out a variety of different simulation games (Sim City, Sim Farm, Sim Earth, Sim Tower, Sim Copter, Sim Isle etc) before being bought by EA to pretty much focusing on 3 titles:
1. Sim City (which afaik is pretty much dead in terms of a new game comming out)
2. The Sims
3. Spore
I mean, The Sims already has 15 expansion packs between two games! How many expansion packs will the Sim's 3 have? The worst part about the expansions is that they don't update the actual engine or anything... they just for the most part add more crap (or vacation spots, jobs etc etc). - winmywii, on 05/16/2008, -0/+10"The minute EA BUYS a game your violent obsessed minds can't live without...." Fixed.
- bar10dr, on 05/16/2008, -3/+12I've had it with EA, never again.
- Tokyosexwhale, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8Their EA BIG series sucks right now. It used to have some sweet games, but EA is clearly just not focusing on their content right now. Seeing an EA logo on a video game is almost like a mark of shame these days. That's sad EA, fix the damn problem.
- Razer210, on 05/16/2008, -7/+15Well, in my books, they get one more year to try and change (seeing as Mirror's Edge is pretty cool) and after that, they go to the deepest pit of hell.
- Vash3001, on 05/16/2008, -1/+9EA is just awful.
- ButchersBoy, on 05/16/2008, -1/+8When Electronic Arts made Deluxe Paint II for the Amiga they were cool. Now I wouldn't touch their games with a barge pole.
- Lazydriver, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Activision now has 007 rights! (Good!)
I believe they're working on Quantum of Solace. - tendonut, on 05/16/2008, -2/+9Thats what happens when you own the entire NFL franchise and the good developers can't develop anymore. I predicted this the moment I heard of that sale going through. No more motivation to make Madden good. Just make it sell. And and after working at EB for 3 and a half years (02-05), I learned that as long as it has the Madden name on it, it will sell like crazy. Even if over half the people trade the game in the next day and say "It's just like last year!"...but they will buy the game again next year, and again the next year, and again the next year, all trading it in saying the SAME thing every time.
- fumar, on 05/16/2008, -3/+10Valve wouldn't sell themselves. They are becoming a publishing force via Steam and everything they make is godlike. I just can't see Valve doing it.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -4/+11You DO know that EA is a publisher first and foremost, correct? Development has always been ancillary for them.
- diggingfornews, on 05/16/2008, -3/+10What a hypocrite you are, you'll buy their games you like but pretend to hate them. Ooooookay.
I'm looking forward to Mirror's Edge too, by the way, and Spore and Red Alert 3. - EagleTG, on 05/16/2008, -1/+8This is 110% correct. Instead of making a great game, or at least competing fairly, they decided to use their infinitely deep pockets to make sure they were the only "game" in town. It would have been nice to see them pour the money into development instead of licensing. I wonder where the franchise would be if that was the case.
- MCA2142, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6better proposal: please let the the developers go free.
- 3tcp, on 05/16/2008, -1/+7To be more specific, start making GOOD games and stop ruining the franchises that you buy. As crappy as some of the EA games have been that I've played, I've never hated them more than when I played Sim City 4...
- winmywii, on 05/16/2008, -1/+7SEGA sports was kicking there ass and selling for a cheaper price. I agree with you, when EA got the sole rights the NFL nothing good could come from it. Thats stifles innovation in NFL, or at least competition. EA has done a great job with the Madden brand and we keep buying the same recycled game year after year because it is "new"
- Ganja420, on 05/16/2008, -1/+6they dumbed down Sim City 4 so toddlers could play it.... =(
- STKD, on 05/16/2008, -1/+6Don't you know? This is digg. Mob mentality rules apply.
- WilliamTM, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Burnout Paradise is okay, but that's not REALLY done by EA, it's done by Criterion.
- HolyChimp, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Um, no it's not?
- Megatog615, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Note to EA. . .Stop Making Games. . .
- godzillaWax, on 05/16/2008, -8/+12Jesus, for the first time in well, ever, EA is actually pruning it's sports titles and creating original IPs and what do we get? Fanboys bitching. Christ, learn to recognize when a company is turning ***** around.
Buried as lame. - daridave, on 05/16/2008, -5/+9"Everyone's favorite Madden factory". Well, I don't know anybody else who makes Madden games...
- haysmoke, on 05/16/2008, -2/+5listen up EA people ***** hate your guts. clean up your act and start producing quality again. right now it's complete garbage
- OrderedChaos, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4Yeah, buried for inaccuracy. They posted a loss because they purchased two major studios during that fiscal year. It wasn't because of a lack of games. Oh well.
- SamuelHenderson, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3I think he meant it's 'like a' Microsoft Company... One that just buys and mandates profits and quantity above quality.
Not that there's anything wrong with profits, or quantity, but quality is important too and is usually the first thing that goes out the window in rushing for the quantity bit... - dafragsta, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4The VERY FIRST Need For Speed game was a street racer. They all are. The only one I can think of where you race on closed off courses is Porsche Unleashed. I agree that the ricer crap began the downfall, but that didn't start until Need for Speed Underground.
- masterofshadows, on 05/16/2008, -2/+5People don't hate Microsoft, they hate Windows and many of the business practices of the Microsoft corporation. I myself am an avid user of Linux (ArchLinux http://www.archlinux.org ) and promote it as much as anyone, yet i own an Xbox 360. Why? Because Microsoft did very well on it. the buddy system, online play, everything about it was superb. Now that doesn't mean I will always like it, if for example Sony was to come out with some feature i couldn't live without and the games to back it up (if Square left Sony I honestly believe that Sony would be out of the console market) then i would be back to Sony. Nintendo doesn't compete so much with those two as they target different segments of the populace.
- toxicityj, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4That's how I justify pirating the expansions and legally purchasing the actual game. Is the ability to send my sim to college worth $30? nah. is it worth some time spent downloading? yup.
It's a shame about Sim City. Sim City 4 was so amazing and in-depth as far as city-control went. Then, from what I've heard, SC: Societies or w/e ruined the complexity (aka any bit of difficulty the game had) and it ended up being a crappy game. - noseeme, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4They are making money off of it. EA has gotten so big and successful that they don't even give a ***** about what their customers think.
- zzqzzqzzq, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3You have been paying attention to their latest copy protection strategy?
They're not even a game publisher anymore, they're a game rental store.......... - slayerab, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4I laughed when I put NFS underground 2 in my xbox a couple days ago and saw the cingular crap, those ads were just a great way to date itself early. Guess its back to ad free Mario Brothers...
- Sharik, on 05/16/2008, -3/+6***** EA!
- Katana314, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4However it probably should be noted that when it comes to Wal-Mart's shelves, Valve does use EA as a publisher. (it's nothing like the lock-in contract most companies get though. Valve can dismiss them at any time, and managed to get much fewer restrictions; for instance, Steam is entirely theirs.)
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